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 [...]

Sternbergia lutes growing at the bottom of the dry riverbed.   One of the gardener’s great challenges is to keep the garden full of colour as summer gives way to fall and most perennials begin to die back.  There are several bulbs, [...]

A waterfall, part of a vast, finished water garden in Pawling, New York. Denmans Garden, which John Brookes MBE called home from 1980-2018, is also where he ran his Clock House School of Garden Design. This month marks what would [...]

Denmans Garden collaborates in a variety of ways with local artists and makers, be that through hosting events and workshops, showcasing work in the gift shop and garden or through providing inspiration and materials. As part of an occasional series, [...]

Above:  Amanda's muti-award winning Rectory Garden.   Denmans Garden, where John Brookes MBE lived from 1980 until he passed in 2018, was also the location of his Clock House School of Garden Design. An integral part of preserving and maintaining [...]

 One of the partners we have been lucky enough to work with over the past couple of years is the London College of Garden Design and this autumn one of LCDG's short two-day courses which focuses on gardens for wellbeing [...]

As summer draws to a close, we mark the final quarter of artist Jo Dowers’ residency at Denmans Garden and the anticipation of her forthcoming exhibition… Over the summer months the garden changes dramatically from week to week. With the [...]

John Brookes had an affinity for a North American native perennial with the unusual name of ‘pokeweed’ (Phytolacca americana) which he planted some time ago in the garden. An herbaceous perennial that grows more than 4 feet high at Denmans, [...]