Gardens to visit include (See NGS for more details):
The Beeches, Church Road, Barcombe, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 5TS
C18 walled garden with cut flowers, vegetables, salads and fruit. Separate orchard and rose garden. Herbaceous borders and hot border. There are two ponds, one with a willow house. Extensive lawns and a C18 barn. A hazel walk is being developed.
Open: July 28 & 29 , 2018 14:00 – 17:00
Admission: Adult: £5.00 Child: Free
Driftwood, 4 Marine Drive, Bishopstone, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 2RS
Monty Don said in his introduction to Driftwood on BBC 2 Gardeners’ World in Sept 2016, ‘It’s a small garden by the sea (112ft x 40ft) with inspired planting and design’. Sunday Telegraph said ‘Geoff’s enthusiasm is catching, and he and his amazing garden deserve every visitor that makes their way up his enchanting garden path’.
Open: July 10 & 24 2018 11:00 – 17:00
Admission: Adult: £5.00 Child: Free
Saffrons, Holland Road, Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3GJ
A stylish garden of textural contrasts and rich colour. The herbaceous beds are furnished with agapanthus, spiky eryngiums, salvias, alliums and fragrant lilies. A broad lawn is surrounded by borders with Japanese maples, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and specimen trees interspersed with ferns and grasses. A fruit cage, vegetable beds and fruit trees comprise the productive area of the garden.
Open: July 15, 2018 14:00 – 17:30
Admission: Adult: £5.00 Child: Free
The Moongate Garden, 6 Elm Avenue, East Preston, Littlehampton, Sussex, BN16 1HJ
S-facing garden 50 metre x 15 metre, in its third year. A stunning Purbeck stone wall with moongate bisects the garden, creating two distinct halves. Within these, there are several sections including contemporary fish pond with stainless steel waterfall, a Hobbit house, circular lawns surrounded by herbaceous borders with a variety of grasses and trees for yr-round interest.
Open: July 28 & 29 2018 11:00 – 16:00
Admission: Adult: £5.00 Child: Free
