Denmans Garden is filled with many winter-blooming shrubs like Viburnum tinus, camellias, quince, Corylopsis spicata, and witch hazels, but it was Stachyurus praecox, that Mrs. Robinson described as ‘the most elegant of the early spring flowering trees’.[1] Its pale-yellow [...]
John Brookes was a rarity in a nation of galanthophiles: He just didn’t like snowdrops. Winter aconites nestled under the acers and stark white stems of Rubus cockburnianus in the Acer Walk. When asked why there were no [...]
PRESS RELEASE – January 2024 Denmans Garden Announce their Artist-in-Residence 2024 Oscar Romp, Figurative Artist Oscar Romp, a Sussex-based artist whose paintings will be featured at the Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery from 20th February – 3 March in Chichester, is Denmans Garden’s [...]
There are few garden experiences more profound than catching an unexpected whiff of floral fragrance on a winter’s day: Unexpected because winter is perceived to be an austere season to be endured, distinguished by cold grey days, miserable weather, and [...]
An Interview with Oscar Romp, Figurative Artist and Denmans Garden Artist-in-Residence 2024 The internationally renowned British landscape designer, John Brookes MBE, moved to Denmans Garden in 1980. A Modernist greatly influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson, [...]
Camellias were one of John Brookes’ go-to plants both for structure and winter colour. He loved the fact that camellias bloom for such a long period of time. Our plant-of-the-month this December is Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ which was one of [...]
Head Gardener Jonathan Arnold cleaning out the river beds with the gardeners and volunteers at Denmans Garden. PRESS RELEASE 9 November 2023 The Royal Horticultural Society announced today that Denmans Garden, an RHS Partner Garden, has been named the [...]
Our plant of the month this November is the Persian Ironwood tree (Parrotia persica) that grows behind the Cottage here at Denmans Garden. Planted by the Robinsons in 1948, this specimen has multiple trunks some of which stand about 45 [...]
Christmas for every child. That’s the goal. Samantha Tanner, Charity Manager at Wave 105 Cash for. Kids - the team behind Mission Christmas explains that 'Mission Christmas is here to support children living in poverty across the south who would [...]
Jo Dowers working in the Walled Garden in mid-spring. The connection between art and the garden were of tremendous interest to the creators of Denmans Garden, Joyce Robinson and John Brookes MBE, and is manifest in the garden in the [...]
