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 [...]
PRESS RELEASE – March 2024 ‘GARDEN REFLECTIONS’ – AN EXHIBITION BY SCULPTOR HELEN SOLLY AT DENMANS GARDEN Denmans Garden is pleased to announce that local, contemporary sculptor Helen Solly will be exhibiting her unique sculptures throughout Denmans Garden from [...]
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 [...]
