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PRESS RELEASE 3 June 2024 DENMANS GARDEN TO PRESENT JOHN BROOKES’ PRIVATE ‘ROOM OUTSIDE’ AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE GARDEN FESTIVAL Denmans Garden, the award-winning contemporary garden at the foot of the South Downs in West Sussex, will make its Feature [...]

‘…a garden is fundamentally a place for the use by people.’  John Brookes Room Outside, 1969 John Brookes' private 'room outside' by Clock House, the early 19th C stable he renovated in 1980 to be his home, studio, [...]

It is difficult to pick a plant of the month in June when everything is looking at its freshest best, but there is one plant that stands out because it serves as a ‘workhorse’ as well as an ornamental shrub [...]

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Above:  A Doublefile viburnum growing beside the lower pond. May Plant-of-the-Month:  Doublefile Viburnum (Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum) Above: The flower clusters resemble those lace cap hydrangeas and are arranged in pairs along long, horizontal branches. There are over 150 [...]

Above: Lotus   (Pond in front of The Cottage) Stainless-steel, 80/180/100 cm Helen Solly, Sculptor: “Garden Reflections”, An exhibition at Denmans Garden A Denmans 'Meet the Maker' interview Helen Solly standing beside 'Urn with Palm' (The Nut Walk) Stainless-steel, 200/100/25 cm [...]

Plant-of-the-month:  Beschornaria yuccoides Mexican Lily (Beschornaria yuccoides) is a clump-forming, spiky yucca that is that is in the Asparagaceae family and hence is related to asparagus.  It has stiff, grey-green leathery leaves that grow to about 1 metre (3 feet) tall and look [...]

ABOVE: 'Of The Garden, In The Garden', courtesy of Oscar Romp Oscar Romp, Denmans Artist-in-Residence 2024: Winter into Spring Figurative artist Oscar Romp is our current Artist-in-Residence. He began working at Denmans at the end of last year, creating some [...]

March 2024 RHS coordinator Emma Allen presents the regional RHS Partner Garden of the Year award to Jonathan Arnold and Cameron Gillespie in November 2023. As my first year at Denmans has flown by, I can genuinely say [...]