I like to think of my visits to Nymans as courses from a seasonal menu. I could indulge in an…
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Houses & places
Chiddingstone Castle – authors, eccentrics and gardens
It was by chance that I discovered Chiddingstone Castle. I was told that an old friend I hadn’t seen in…
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It’s tulip time
I visited Gravetye Manor’s gardens yesterday to see what was blooming. Frank Sinatra’s song ‘It had to be you’ suddenly…
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The Charleston Garden in Spring
While I was away with Luce and Theo on the East Sussex coast this week, I realised that Charleston was…
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Hever’s Italian Garden in winter
Hever is one of the most important Edwardian gardens in England, and maintained to a very high standard…The best part…
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