Geoff Stonebanks

A RATHER under-rated plant for the garden is, in my opinion, helichrysum petiolare Goring Silver which is a trailing perennial with rounded,…

I MENTIONED a photo shoot for the Sunday Times last week but a shoot also took place in the garden a couple of weeks before and the photographer, Jon

Were you one of the 860 lucky individuals to step aboard the World’s last seagoing paddle steamer, the magnificent PS Waverley, for an extraordinary trip along the coast to Beachy head and the Seven Sisters, when it sailed from Eastbourne, for the first time in 22 years?

September is rolling on and there is real evidence that autumn is upon us, indeed, the autumn equinox takes place tomorrow. As far as the garden is…

We have now passed the equinox and are officially in autumn. Lots to do in the garden to make it ready for the upcoming winter. I have been spending…

Despite closing the garden gate back at the beginning of August, I had a request recently from a Belgian couple, who were holidaying in Sussex, to ask if they could visit the garden.

Can you believe it, we are fast approaching the end of the month with the clocks going back on the 27th. Working days in the garden will be much…

I MENTIONED last week the proposed location filming in the garden by a production company on behalf of C4. To be honest, my initial reaction was to…

The clocks have now gone back, and we have much shorter days to work in our plots. At Driftwood, the big autumn clear-up is well under way now, after having to hold fire a little due to the recent TV location filming. The large conifer at the top of the garden had grown really large and needed a trim to bring it back down to size. In all the 20 years we have lived here, I have only had it professionally cut by a tree surgeon once. I contacted the same guys and they returned recently to cut out t

At this time of the year, you’d really expect the garden to know winter is well on its way.