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 [...]
A small garden designed by John Brookes for clients with a busy lifestyle and little time for gardening. It is very odd that many homes which are really beautifully designed internally come to a grinding halt at the window. Yet [...]
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 [...]
The Walled Garden as it is this month, featuring Beschonaria yuccoides, Euphorbia wulfenii, tulips, and many other beautiful perennials, shrubs, and trees. When Mrs. Robinson left for a cruise through the Greek Islands on the 29th of April 1969, she [...]
We recently bought five unusual ferns to plant in the Nut Walk and they arrived this week, much to our excitement. Billed to grow over up to 2 metres tall and just under a metre wide, we think the ferns, [...]
PRESS RELEASE - March 2021 Denmans Garden to participate in the National Garden Scheme Open Days 2021 What better way is there this year to support Britain’s health care workers than spending time enjoying private gardens through the National Garden [...]
