DENMANS GARDEN
Where Design Meets Horticulture
Award-winning Grade II Denmans Garden, former home & garden of influential landscape designer & author John Brookes MBE, was converted from market to ornamental garden by plantswoman Joyce Robinson who created its extensive gravel gardens in the 1970s. This tranquil garden features dry riverbeds, a walled garden, ponds, & a broad variety of unusual plants.
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Opening hours are Mon – Sat 9.30am – 4pm; Sun 11am – 4pm
Admission is £10/person and £8/concessions.
Rree to RHS members on Thursday all year and Saturdays through March 2025.
You must have your membership card with you.
Gardeners World 2-4-1 admission is £10 per couple and £5 for a single visitor. Cards are required.
No admission for the Gift Shop, Plant Nursery, or Midpines Cafe.
Denmans Garden closes in adverse weather conditions. Please call ahead if you have any questions.
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Midpines Café is open Mon-Sat, 9-4 and Sun from 10-4
Denmans Garden cannot take bookings for the café.
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About Denmans
In 1946, Joyce and Hugh Robinson purchased land that had belonged to Lord Denman at the turn of the century. They moved into the dilapidated gardener’s cottage and renovated the badly neglected property, creating a successful market garden, complete with greenhouses, conservatories, a walled garden, dairy, and piggery. Their produce went by train to Covent Garden Market and to local shops.
Joyce, known as Mrs. J.H., eventually converted it from market garden to ornamental garden, residing in the charming cottage until her passing in 1996.
John Brookes MBE moved to Denmans in 1980. Until his death in March 2018, he revised the garden continually, integrating Mrs. J.H.’s planting style and retaining the two dry river beds she created. Renovations he began are ongoing.
Today Denmans, which is 4 acres, is a contemporary country garden renowned for its curvilinear layout, faux dry river beds, water features, complex and unusual plantings, and its peaceful year-round interest.
Located between Arundel and Chichester, Denmans is highly significant in the history of garden design.
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