Learning from and working with John Brookes MBE John at work on a large estate in upstate New York. I changed careers in the early 1990s and earned a certificate in garden design from the New York Botanical [...]
The entrance to the garden in the summer of 2017 was overgrown and full of weeds. In January 2018 Denmans Garden was overgrown, dilapidate, and infested with ground elder. Neglected and then closed because of a long-running business dispute, [...]
As part of a new occasional blog series ‘Meet the Maker’ we speak to artist and teacher Jo Dowers, a Sussex based watercolour artist who runs regular creative art workshops at Denmans for people of all abilities. I have [...]
A small garden designed by John Brookes for clients with a busy lifestyle and little time for gardening. It is very odd that many homes which are really beautifully designed internally come to a grinding halt at the window. Yet [...]
Voting is now open! If you have a moment, we would be grateful if you would please vote for Denmans as RHS Partner Garden of the Year 2021 -Feel Good Garden! If the challenges of the past year have taught [...]
‘One of the hardest things for a gardener to do is to pause in the cultivation of plants long enough to take stock of the lie of your own land. Even a new garden owner cannot wait to rush out, [...]
There are always seeds to be collected, cuttings to take, and plants to be divided. Sigrid Wichall has done it all at Denmans. Sigrid hard at work, pricking out columbine seedlings. We had always been regular visitors [...]
As part of a new occasional blog series ‘Meet the Maker’ we speak to artist Emily Ellen, a Sussex based watercolour illustrator whose cards we have recently started stocking in the Denmans Gift Shop. Art has been a constant [...]
‘To rely entirely on planting as the backbone of a garden for the whole year is asking too much.’ So wrote award-winning landscape designer John Brookes MBE (1933–2018) for House & Garden Magazine in 1963, in which he laid out [...]
The Walled Garden as it is this month, featuring Beschonaria yuccoides, Euphorbia wulfenii, tulips, and many other beautiful perennials, shrubs, and trees. When Mrs. Robinson left for a cruise through the Greek Islands on the 29th of April 1969, she [...]
