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The Kindest Cut of All
Winter

The Kindest Cut of All

Posted on January 21, 2015 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

On one level early January is the nadir of the gardening year. Days are short, light levels low, temperatures chilly and everything seems deeply dormant. But look more closely and the signs are there that nature’s pulse is already strengthening. The first snowdrops, aconites and crocus are opening, bulb leaves are spearing through the soil … Continue reading →

Holly and the Ivy Evergreen
Winter

Holly and the Ivy Evergreen

Posted on December 16, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

Two of our very few native evergreens, holly and ivy, are as seasonally synonymous as Christmas and pudding. For our forebears, these were plants that mysteriously denied the seeming extinction of nature during winter’s icy grip and, to this day, we retain the ancient custom of decking the house with these evergreen plants to subdue … Continue reading →

Getting the Garden Ready for Winter
Winter

Getting the Garden Ready for Winter

Posted on November 17, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • 4 Comments

As temperatures plummet this time of the year the lights go back on in the cold frames at West Dean Gardens. It is essential to provide a minimum of frost protection for those border line hardy plants that are lined out to over-winter. Large mature plants of frost tender perennials, that have a semi-woody framework … Continue reading →

Heating up in August
Looking Good / Summer

Heating up in August

Posted on August 6, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

Wow! What a difference warm weather makes to a garden! So far this summer the flower display in the cutting garden and on the borders in the Walled Garden is looking fantastic with the rudbeckia trial taking pride of place. Beneficial insects and butterflies are having a field day too. However lots of sun means … Continue reading →

West Dean Gardens – July 2014
Summer

West Dean Gardens – July 2014

Posted on August 6, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

June was a wonderful month for a garden visit to West Dean and July looks set to be the same. Plenty of sun filled days after the relentless winter rain have put a skip into the visitors step as they come along to enjoy all aspects of the gardens and there is certainly plenty here … Continue reading →

Summer

West Dean Gardens – June 2014

Posted on June 9, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

Last winter’s rain has acted like rocket fuel to the gardens, there is fabulous growth on trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials everywhere. As a result the early season wild flower display was floriferous in the extreme – always a glorious sight. Shortly it will be mown down (before it falls down!), however there will be … Continue reading →

Looking Good / Spring

Welcome to West Dean Gardens in May

Posted on May 7, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

April was such a benign month at West Dean, mostly rain-free days and glorious enjoyable sunshine. What a blossomy year so far – I feel as if the garden is garlanded with these magical blooms at present. The pear blossom was magnificent in March and April and now the orchard is a riot of pink … Continue reading →

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