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Jen Stuart-Smith

Wreath success and tips

Yesterday’s wreath-making course at Sissinghurst Castle went swimmingly — with lots of happy participants and 18 beautiful hedgerow-style wreaths heading for front doors across the South East — and one all the way to Huntingdon. The sun was shining and the view through the medieval barn’s archway, across the fields to the Downs, was as […]

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A little something I found…

While rootling around my home (once my 3 great aunties’ house) I found the following text, which is too good not to share. It was on an old postcard, marked Wannock Gardens, Polegate, Sussex – now, sadly and rather poignantly, a housing estate. Commandments of the Flowers Thou shalt learn to know the flowers of

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Get counting those butterflies…

There’s a great article in The Times this Saturday (27th) by Simon Barnes, about the demise of butterflies. Pertinent article, as July 20 to August 11 is this year’s Big Butterfly Count. Butterflies are what are known as ‘indicator species’ as they tell us a lot about how the rest of our environment is getting

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Two great events on one day!

After two wash-outs last year, if was fantastic to have such a warm sunny open day and so many visitors… When we set the date many months ago, we hadn’t predicted that Andy Murray would be playing in the Men’s Final at Wimbledon on the same day! Fortunately, everyone seemed to have planned ahead and

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