PRESS RELEASE – October 2021 How to Design A Garden – In the News! We hope that John would have been thrilled to see some of the fantastic media coverage How to Design a Garden has received since its release [...]

Learning from and working with John Brookes MBE John at work on a large estate in upstate New York. I changed careers in the early 1990s and earned a certificate in garden design from the New York Botanical [...]

The entrance to the garden in the summer of 2017 was overgrown and full of weeds. In January 2018 Denmans Garden was overgrown, dilapidate, and infested with ground elder.  Neglected and then closed because of a long-running business dispute, [...]

As part of a new occasional blog series ‘Meet the Maker’ we speak to artist and teacher Jo Dowers, a Sussex based watercolour artist who runs regular creative art workshops at Denmans for people of all abilities.   I have [...]

Voting is now open! If you have a moment, we would be grateful if you would please vote for Denmans as RHS Partner Garden of the Year 2021 -Feel Good Garden! If the challenges of the past year have taught [...]

‘One of the hardest things for a gardener to do is to pause in the cultivation of plants long enough to take stock of the lie of your own land. Even a new garden owner cannot wait to rush out, [...]

There are always seeds to be collected, cuttings to take, and plants to be divided.  Sigrid Wichall has done it all at Denmans.   Sigrid hard at work, pricking out columbine seedlings. We had always been regular visitors [...]

As part of a new occasional blog series ‘Meet the Maker’ we speak to artist Emily Ellen, a Sussex based watercolour illustrator whose cards we have recently started stocking in the Denmans Gift Shop.   Art has been a constant [...]

‘To rely entirely on planting as the backbone of a garden for the whole year is asking too much.’ So wrote award-winning landscape designer John Brookes MBE (1933–2018) for House & Garden Magazine in 1963, in which he laid out [...]