Summer in the gardens... looking good in July
Oh July! The month we've all been working towards from the beginning of the season thinking unreasonably that we will be on top of all the early seasonal work by the time it arrives - not so!
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Looking Good in June
Flaming June...or it would be if only we stopped, stood and saw the magical scenery around us. Gardeners tend to keep their heads down at this time of year to plough through the work.
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25 Years of Glorious Gardening
NEW 25 Years photographic exhibition opens today!
A new 25 Years of Glorious Gardening photographic exhibition opens today in the renovated 'Mushroom Shed' at award-winning West Dean Gardens.
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How to grow a Demon Red chilli (or maybe not...)
Here's how the marketing team's Demon Reds are coming along...
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25 Years of Glorious Gardening
West Dean Gardens in numbers
Find out all sorts of interesting facts and stats from the age of the Gardens to the number of visitors.
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The Gardener's Cottage
The Gardener's Cottage will be open once again this weekend as part of the National Gardens Scheme.
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H is for heritage
H is for heritage at West Dean Gardens celebrating 25 Years of Glorious Gardening.
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What's going on in the gardens in May
The arboretum still awaits your viewing. The cowslips, sheets of them, are looking magnificent.
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25 Years of Glorious Gardening
25 Years of Glorious Gardening
This year marks 25 years since head gardeners, husband and wife, Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain, began the transformation of West Dean into award-winning gardens, in the wake of the Great Storms of 1987. In the years since 1991, they have revitalised the 19th century landscape and overseen tremendous changes which have brought the gardens international respect for both the quality and variety of horticultural practice.