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interiors Supplement <strong>inside</strong><br />

Inspirational <strong>Interiors</strong> • Fabulous Fashion • Delicious Dishes<br />

PRICELESS<br />

JULY <strong>2017</strong>


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Contents<br />

<strong>July</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

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ALL IN THE DETAIL<br />

Maggie Alderson’s homes<br />

for downsizers<br />

WEALDEN TIMES<br />

SUMMER PARTY<br />

A review of our<br />

advertisers evening<br />

JULY NOTEBOOK<br />

Fill your diary with handpicked<br />

events going on<br />

around the Weald<br />

GRAND DESIGN<br />

Explore Karen Hahnel’s striking<br />

St. Leonards apartment<br />

GET THE LOOK<br />

Style your home monochrome<br />

MONOLITHIC MAGIC<br />

Marta Nowicka’s converted<br />

St John Ambulance station<br />

GET THE LOOK<br />

Perfect products to<br />

recreate Marta’s look<br />

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GARDEN PARTY<br />

Relaxed summer fashion<br />

BEACH BEAUTY<br />

Josephine Fairley’s tips<br />

for beach chic<br />

SAVOUR THE SUMMER<br />

This month’s bitesize<br />

health news<br />

NEVER TOO LATE!<br />

Sarah Maxwell’s tips for<br />

building an exercise routine<br />

THE POWER OF<br />

THE MIND<br />

Julie Simpson looks at research<br />

into cognitive decline<br />

BEAUTIFUL EATING<br />

Madeleine Shaw’s recipes<br />

for a healthy body<br />

JUST ADD WATER<br />

Our pick of in-ground<br />

swimming pools<br />

Published by JPS Media Ltd, Kettle Chambers, 21 Stone Street, Cranbrook, Kent. TN17 3HF.<br />

Tel: 01580 714705 Fax: 01580 715983. Email info@wealdentimes.co.uk wealdentimes.co.uk<br />

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necessarily those of JPS Media Ltd.<br />

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THE MAKINGS OF A GARDEN<br />

Sue Whigham describes the evolution<br />

of her own outside space<br />

SECOND OUT, ROUND TWO<br />

Jo Arnell’s late summer veg<br />

EXTRA HELP<br />

Susan Elkin looks into tutoring<br />

WHAT’S ON?<br />

Find out...<br />

COMPETITION<br />

Win 20L of Autentico paint<br />

FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />

Jane Howard’s meadow success story<br />

INTERIORS<br />

SUPPLEMENT<br />

14 pages of<br />

colourful<br />

inspiration for<br />

your home.<br />

After page 84.<br />

<strong>Interiors</strong><br />

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New Romney, Kent - £395,000<br />

Grade II Listed period house with double fronted shop. Living<br />

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Beckley, East Sussex - £650,000<br />

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HOUSE OF THE MONTH<br />

1.<br />

All in the Detail<br />

Maggie Alderson explores homes for downsizers<br />

When I helped my mum move house three years ago she had four full services of<br />

Staffordshire bone china. The grandest design featured real gold rims, which<br />

meant they had to be washed by hand. Such fun. (Not.) As well as twelve<br />

settings of four sizes of plates, plus half-moon salad plates and soup set she had no fewer<br />

than twenty-two cups and saucers. That’s a big bridge party. And with all that to choose<br />

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Hever Castle’s annual Summer Joust is on the horizon, and<br />

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<strong>July</strong><br />

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Exhibitions & events<br />

near you this month...<br />

Pub Culture...<br />

The Bell in Ticehurst has two great events lined<br />

up this month. Pop over to this quirky pub<br />

in the heart of Ticehurst on Thursday 6 <strong>July</strong><br />

to see award-winning comedian, Tom Allen<br />

performing in The Big Room. Tickets are £22<br />

followed by an optional supper for £8. Then<br />

on Sunday 16 <strong>July</strong>, a free Music Festival will<br />

be staged in the garden with a chilled out vibe,<br />

street food and local beers. Go to bellinticehurst.<br />

com or call 01580 200300 for more information.<br />

Castle Concert...<br />

On Saturday 8 <strong>July</strong>, Aled Jones is set to<br />

host a spectacular evening of classical music<br />

in Leeds Castle’s natural amphitheatre. Sip<br />

Champagne or tuck in to a luxurious picnic<br />

and watch as the Patriot Girls perform old<br />

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra delivers a<br />

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JAM on Coast...<br />

From Thursday 6 to Sunday16 <strong>July</strong>, JAM on the<br />

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Mozart Players, Latin-American groove, an openair<br />

performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, poetry<br />

recitals, superb art and photography exhibitions<br />

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with fun music, art, theatre and bugs! Full details<br />

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Shuck it up...<br />

The iconic Whitstable Oyster Festival is relocating<br />

to the beautiful Tankerton Slopes this year. The<br />

classic Landing of the Oysters on Saturday 22<br />

<strong>July</strong> will be followed by a seafront procession<br />

and oyster eating challenge. Throughout the rest<br />

of the festival there will be the ‘Mud Tug’ tug<br />

of war, oyster food fair, and a grand finale on<br />

Monday 24 <strong>July</strong>’s Children’s Day with picnicking,<br />

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headcornevents.co.uk for more information.<br />

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Garden in a week dedicated to home-grown<br />

produce. The manor’s Victorian-style garden<br />

feeds the house and café with a plentiful supply<br />

of tasty goodies and from Saturday 8 to Sat<br />

15 <strong>July</strong> the gardeners behind it all will be<br />

available to give advice and answer questions.<br />

Copies of From the Garden, a new recipe book<br />

based on the Manor, will also be on sale. Visit<br />

pashleymanorgardens.com for further details.<br />

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We’ve been lucky enough to make two (well,<br />

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Nowicka’s strikingly contemporary St. John Ambulance<br />

Station conversion in Rye. Read the stories behind<br />

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Supplement. Forest, Desert and Tropical take centre stage<br />

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Grand Design<br />

Karen Hahnel’s St Leonards apartment is a stunning example of how<br />

to successfully employ proportion and scale. She has cleverly combined<br />

design classics with online finds to create an enviably stylish seaside home<br />

Words: Maggie Alderson<br />

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Styling: Lucy Fleming<br />

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Previous pages: Striped tins that once held soap are<br />

arranged on the console table in the spare bedroom.<br />

The candlesticks alongside them were found in the<br />

antique emporia around St Leonards’ Norman Road<br />

Above: The striking drawing room features wonderfully<br />

large windows which span the full length from floor<br />

to ceiling Right: Boris the wild boar head is mounted<br />

on the wall above a French army folding table<br />

From the moment you walk into Karen Hahnel’s<br />

ground floor St Leonards apartment your face<br />

changes – and with every step further <strong>inside</strong> it gets<br />

more pronounced. Your eyes widen, your eyebrows travel<br />

progressively up your head and your mouth drops open.<br />

Wow. Wow. Wow. It’s the wow factor writ large – very large.<br />

Not just in the fabulous proportions of the main room,<br />

with its three metre plus ceilings (with original mouldings)<br />

and dramatic dark red marble fireplace, which was once in<br />

a reception room in a major Victorian house. Nor even the<br />

huge window, right down to the floor giving onto a sea view.<br />

Although all of these are ticks on the dream home wish<br />

list, what makes Karen’s flat so impressive is the way she’s<br />

taken on the massive scale of the place – and run with it.<br />

So there’s no pussyfooting around here with mimsy inperiod<br />

chandeliers, instead the ceiling light is a huge 1950s<br />

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Above: The sitting room has a wonderfully restrained palette of white and ecru,<br />

a perfect backdrop for Karen’s gorgeous cockerpoo, Mabel<br />

asymmetric piece by French designer Serge Mouille. No fussy<br />

wall of fanciful French-hung artworks, but a huge drawing on<br />

one side and a supersized decorative hanging on the other.<br />

And then on the back wall something even<br />

more amazing: a human-scale wire sculpture of an<br />

angel, her wings threaded with Swarovski crystals,<br />

looking down on all within. It’s magical.<br />

A quick scan makes it immediately clear that even beyond<br />

her ease with large scale, Karen is a very confident decorator.<br />

The sitting room has a wonderfully restrained palette<br />

of white and ecru (a perfect backdrop for her gorgeous<br />

cockerpoo Mabel, who is exactly the same colours) with<br />

no temptation to reach for splashes of feature colour.<br />

Her confidence is also gloriously apparent in her fearless<br />

decision to paint every surface in the apartment the same<br />

shade of dark grey. Walls and ceilings are all finished in<br />

Fired Earth’s Mercury, which wonderfully enhances the<br />

sense of flow between the rooms, bringing it all together<br />

and making the flat seem bigger at the same time.<br />

But there is one good reason she feels comfortable<br />

decorating such a space… she moved to it from<br />

an almost identical property in Richmond.<br />

“I had a flat there in a similar era building, with similar<br />

proportions and I just transported everything down to<br />

this one,” she says. “The only difference is that there<br />

everything was painted white and here it felt right to go<br />

for this rich dark grey with a tiny bit of warmth in it.”<br />

And it’s no happy accident that this two-bedroom<br />

flat is so similar in style to her one-bedroom London<br />

one – it was that extra bedroom that she was looking<br />

for when she moved, not a new style of home.<br />

So unlike most DFL (Down From London) decampers<br />

to St Leonards, Karen wasn’t looking to trade in a tiny<br />

flat in the smoke for a huge mansion; she transplanted<br />

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Above left and below right: Karen has framed a postcard of a<br />

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Above right: A collection of coral, feathers and candles is<br />

gathered together in a tray on top of a buttoned pouffe by<br />

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herself from one splendid Victorian flat to another,<br />

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“In Richmond I couldn’t afford to upgrade to a two<br />

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my hairdresser, who told me she and her partner had<br />

just been looking at property in St Leonards.<br />

“I hadn’t even heard of it, but I started looking and two<br />

days later I put an offer in on this flat. It all felt meant to<br />

be. Once I came down and started looking I was really<br />

specific – I quickly knew it could only be one of the 25<br />

houses in this terrace, on the ground or first floor.<br />

“I looked at seven or eight of them, but the moment I<br />

saw this one online I knew immediately. It needed a lot of<br />

love, it had broken windows, it hadn’t been looked after<br />

for a long time, but it was definitely the right one.”<br />

The work to be done on the flat was mostly putting right this<br />

lack of care – overseen by Project Manager Carl Ross – there<br />

were no walls to knock down or move around. The layout,<br />

with the kitchen very cleverly arranged along one side of the<br />

long wide hall the front door opens onto, was already in place.<br />

“I only had to paint it and put up shelves,” says Karen,<br />

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The wire angel is by French artist Marie Cristophe, bought on a trip to Paris.<br />

“She does a lot of work for the big fashion houses,” says Karen. “I saw the<br />

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Above: The beautiful bird cage on the sideboard in the drawing room was from Lille<br />

Now featuring a deep contemporary oval bath with<br />

a central hand shower, star design floor tiles on the<br />

characteristic bold scale, plus a basin atop a black painted<br />

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And it turns out that one of its standout features<br />

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most respected interior shops, but the designer-looking<br />

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This juxtaposition of elite brands and clever finds is found<br />

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This page: The free-standing kitchen is very cleverly<br />

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to be called anything else – on one end of the mantelpiece<br />

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Suitably impressed, I ask where the smaller lamp on<br />

the side table next to the sofa is from – presuming it<br />

will be another treasure fit for the Design Museum.<br />

Karen laughs as she replies: “IKEA! The sofa is from<br />

there too – the covers are washable, which is great.”<br />

But the round buttoned pouffe, upholstered in cream<br />

linen, next to the IKEA sofa is from George Smith.<br />

The high/low trick happens again when I enquire<br />

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on the mantelpiece, assuming it will be a find from a<br />

gallery in one of the many European cities Karen visits<br />

frequently for her job with a large software company.<br />

It turns out it is a work by a major Austrian artist –<br />

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Above left: In keeping with the grand, rich feeling of the whole apartment, Karen’s cooking utensils and cutlery are kept in a<br />

collection of pressed glass jugs and vases Above right: The long hallway is lined on one side with round mirrors of assorted sizes<br />

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The formerly mentioned wire angel is by French artist<br />

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Paris trip, although not bought there.<br />

“It’s a French army folding table. I saw one at Merci in<br />

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The beautiful bird cage on the sideboard was also<br />

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The large armoire at the back of the room is more<br />

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wonder how they got it in there. Karen explains:<br />

“Large antique French furniture like this can be<br />

dismantled and put back together again, flat pack<br />

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This page: Karen’s flare for scale<br />

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where an Old Master painting has<br />

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size. The armchair was found on the<br />

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house to the country house, so it came in pieces which<br />

could be put together and taken apart as needed.”<br />

This room also hosts another example of Karen’s flair<br />

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blown up to a magnificent size, from Surface View, setting<br />

the atmosphere from the moment you walk through<br />

the door of this otherwise downplayed scheme.<br />

Featuring the same restrained, calm colour scheme as<br />

the drawing room, there is just a simple grey linen padded<br />

headboard by Paola Navone and an armchair of great<br />

character, which Karen found on the online antiques<br />

site The Hoarde, upholstered in plain ecru canvas.<br />

The only other standout features in this haven of tranquillity<br />

are the lights: a very decorative chandelier which was already<br />

in the house and a bedside lamp of delightful whimsy, from<br />

Designers Guild, so pretty against sheer white curtains.<br />

The bedroom is one place in the house where<br />

Karen did undertake some construction, taking<br />

advantage of the ceiling height to put in some large<br />

storage areas, which disappear into the walls.<br />

Walking out of this room and through the vestibule to<br />

the kitchen takes you past another example of Karen’s bold<br />

flair in a wall papered with a bold design featuring the<br />

pressed tin ceilings found in houses in her native Melbourne,<br />

dating from a similar period to this St Leonards one.<br />

There’s more feature wallpaper in the spare bedroom<br />

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Atlanta Bartlett and<br />

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Monolithic<br />

Magic<br />

When a former St. John Ambulance station in Rye came up<br />

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hours to decide to take on its renovation. After removing<br />

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Previous pages & above: Marta wanted to use the original St. John Ambulance station doors, but they didn’t<br />

meet building regulations, so are used on an internal wall instead as decoration and to reference the historical<br />

use. A new set of functional doors have been made in the same style. The double sided wood burning stove and<br />

adjacent log pile are housed on a huge concrete plinth, creating a focal point, whether the fire is lit or not<br />

They say that home is where the heart is, but if you<br />

spend half the year in one place and the other in<br />

a completely different space, you must have to<br />

have two hearts (make that two sets of everything), in<br />

order to feel at home. Award-winning Interior Architect<br />

Marta Nowicka appears to manage two-heartedness<br />

brilliantly, living for half the year at her home in London<br />

and the rest of the time at her home in Rye, letting out<br />

whichever house she’s not living in. “It’s all a bit Mapp<br />

and Lucia!” Marta laughs when we meet at the former St<br />

John’s ambulance station in Rye Citadel. Rye may have<br />

been the setting for the most recent TV adaptation of EF<br />

Benson’s Mapp and Lucia books (in which the occupants<br />

regularly swap their homes about) but as I look around this<br />

stunning contemporary conversion, it is definitely where<br />

the similarity ends. Tilling this isn’t. When Marta first<br />

came across the property she was (half) living in nearby<br />

Camber, in an old coastguard’s cottage. “It began to feel a<br />

bit remote there,” she says. “I wanted to be in Rye for the<br />

ease of access, the shops. It feels like there’s more life here.”<br />

“My assistant came across the building first, but it<br />

was in the middle of a sealed bids race. I didn’t have<br />

time to see it and by the time I contacted the agent<br />

they said, ‘sorry, it’s been sold.’ I asked them to let <br />

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Above: A central feature of the open plan kitchen/dining/living area is a huge dining table, which has been designed<br />

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Above: The entrance hall windows look out onto a beautiful old brick wall which is illuminated at night<br />

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The property has had several lives then, transitioning<br />

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This page: A concrete plinth has been cast at the base of the<br />

stairs. Marta has weaved rope through the metal handrail. Rather<br />

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Above & above right: A family bathroom neatly slots into a<br />

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It wasn’t all smooth progress, but Marta and Pat the builder were<br />

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Above: Marta’s son Lucas’s room has been designed with friends<br />

staying in mind Right: The spare bedrooms<br />

“It was supposed to be smooth and monolithic, but<br />

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This page: Throughout the house, exposed brickwork contrasts<br />

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This page: On both floors there are hints to the building’s former use as an ambulance station in<br />

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Beach<br />

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I’m sure I’m not the only person whose heart sinks at<br />

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ensuring there’s enough sandwiches, potato salad and<br />

soft drinks to keep the family happy. (And quite often,<br />

making sure we’ve got macs and a windbreak.)<br />

That doesn’t mean we don’t want to look good for summer<br />

– but it’s not all about prepping for two weeks in a swimsuit, is<br />

it? One of the glories of living in these isles is taking advantage<br />

of these precious few months of warmth and sunshine: all<br />

the more special because they don’t last year-round. If you’re<br />

anything like me, that means you’re outdoors as much as<br />

possible – on walks, in the garden, at barbecues with friends.<br />

Yes, we all want to look and feel our best – but why waste<br />

precious time in the bathroom when we could be taking<br />

advantage of the great outdoors? So: I’ve focused here on<br />

great ‘cheats’, which will minimise your time getting ready<br />

for the beach – and maximise your actual time on it.<br />

STep one: buff with an oil-based scrub. These are, in my<br />

book, just about the most body-transformative products<br />

out there. They slough away dead, dull skin cells (and can<br />

actually revive a tan, as a result), while leaving skin veiled in<br />

nourishing oils. Any fake tan will go on more smoothly if<br />

you use an oil-based scrub first. I prefer sugar-based scrubs as<br />

salt can sting if you’ve any nicks and cuts (as a gardener, that<br />

invariably means me). Top of the scrubs for me are VOYA<br />

Effervescence Nourishing Scrub, £34 for 259g (it features<br />

plenty of hand-harvested seaweed in a base of almond oil,<br />

sunflower oil and seaweed oil – and who knew there was<br />

such a thing?), and the perennially fabulous, deliciously<br />

rose-scented REN Moroccan Rose Shea Sugar Body Polish,<br />

£33 for 330ml. Both leave skin gleaming and nourished<br />

and are so enjoyable to use – well, you’ll use them. And<br />

at the end of the day that is the key, with all products.<br />

STep TWo: fake a tan. Who wants a body that’s pastrypale<br />

on the first day of a vacation? Dita Von Teese, and that’s<br />

about it, I reckon. There’s no need to go anywhere near a UV<br />

tanning salon – the health risks of which become more and<br />

more evident – with all the fabulous fake tans there are around.<br />

My advice isn’t to go for a deep instant tan, but to apply a<br />

gradual tanner a couple of evenings in a row, before you leave<br />

for holiday. That’s all it takes to build up really quite a fabulous<br />

skin tint, and it’ll look more realistic than one dark coat. Bathe<br />

and exfoliate first, pat skin dry, and smooth body butter into<br />

any dry zones such as heels, knees and elbows. These areas go<br />

carrot-y because the dry cells take up more of the self-tanning<br />

ingredient; if they’re well-nourished, that won’t happen.<br />

Over the past few years I’ve slathered my way through<br />

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from an oddly-named brand called Eco by Sonya (available<br />

from lovelula.com). Their Winter Skin, £25 for 200ml is<br />

deliciously ‘slippy’, like a gel-cream – and is incredibly easy<br />

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STep THRee: protect your face before you hit the beach.<br />

I walked along the sands in Dubai back in January literally<br />

aghast at how almost every woman was lying there with her<br />

face turned to the sun, in the midday heat. You know why they<br />

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UVB but firms and moisturises,<br />

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STEP FOUR: reach for an<br />

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without talking about body<br />

suncare. That’s because I think<br />

it’s a matter of personal choice<br />

whether you want to fry yourself<br />

dark bronze (with all the sun<br />

damage that goes along with that) – or do as I do and slowly<br />

build a lovely golden glow from the shade of my umbrella. And<br />

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ranges I like include Clarins, Clinique, Lancaster and (at the<br />

affordable end) the Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration range.<br />

But what you do need to pack (which you might not have<br />

thought about) is that SPF lip tint – because the lips are supervulnerable<br />

(it’s the way they’re angled to the sun), and through<br />

a combo of sea breezes and salt can become incredibly dry.<br />

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Savour the summer<br />

<strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> talks to Katherine Slater from Bee Potion<br />

Health & Beauty<br />

Do you have a beauty<br />

regime? As I approach my<br />

50th year, my beauty regime<br />

starts in the morning by<br />

looking in the bathroom<br />

mirror and thanking my life,<br />

that way I feel more beautiful<br />

with age! I have devised my<br />

own natural honey bee, twostep<br />

beauty ritual. First, I apply<br />

my honey, seaweed and aloe<br />

facial cleanser wash and, if my<br />

face is feeling particularly tired,<br />

I use it as a face pack too. I<br />

follow this with my face and<br />

body balm which is natural<br />

and nourishing both night<br />

and day. The two products<br />

together are all I need,<br />

Do you have a particular<br />

product you couldn’t<br />

live without? My face<br />

feels lost without my face<br />

balm (also known as BEE<br />

NOURISHED) as it’s so<br />

versatile and nourishing. I<br />

made a handy travel size<br />

so I can take it everywhere.<br />

Regarding make-up, I find less<br />

is more but mascara is the key<br />

for me. I love Kevyn Aucoin<br />

mascara from Space NK. It’s<br />

light, does not smudge or<br />

flake and is easy to remove.<br />

What’s your ultimate<br />

pampering treat? I lived<br />

and worked in Bali for a year<br />

and massages and pedicures<br />

were so cheap that you had<br />

them every week so they no<br />

longer felt like a treat. To<br />

feel truly indulged, I need to<br />

receive the pampering from<br />

someone I am fond of! So, a<br />

foot massage after a long day<br />

from my partner is great and<br />

so is a facial treatment from<br />

my friend Rachel Heavens<br />

who I run pampering<br />

workshops with. In our<br />

workshops I demonstrate<br />

how to make natural skin<br />

care products while Rachel<br />

teaches the facial part. It’s<br />

pampering on another level.<br />

Who’s your style icon? Style<br />

icons for me don’t only look<br />

good, they create good. My<br />

top two icons would be the<br />

painter Georgia O’Keeffe<br />

and installation artist Louise<br />

Bourgois. Like all female<br />

artists who have challenged<br />

the idea of conventional<br />

style or beauty through their<br />

art, they both leave a legacy<br />

in terms of femininity and<br />

identity which is timeless.<br />

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products using honey from<br />

their own bees. To find out<br />

more about the range and<br />

Bee Potion’s workshops,<br />

visit bee-potion.com<br />

Sulphur, the<br />

beauty mineral<br />

Sulphur, which is found in<br />

the ocean, is known for its<br />

ability to support collagen<br />

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circulation and decrease<br />

inflammation. A new range<br />

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oils to exfoliate the skin and<br />

leave it soft and nourished.<br />

There are six different salts<br />

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We loved it for its subtle<br />

scent, gentle exfoliation<br />

and for making our rough<br />

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Mediterranean magic<br />

As we move into high summer,<br />

deliciously sweet, flavoursome<br />

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shops and soon they’ll be<br />

ripening in the garden. While<br />

they’re plentiful, and relatively<br />

cheap, it’s worth remembering<br />

the health benefits of cooking<br />

tomatoes: they’re a great source<br />

of the antioxidant lycopene,<br />

which helps protect against<br />

cancer and heart disease.<br />

Scientists have discovered that<br />

when tomatoes are eaten raw,<br />

very little lycopene is absorbed<br />

but when cooked with a good<br />

quality oil, the antioxidant is<br />

much more readily available.<br />

This successful combination<br />

of tomatoes and olive oil helps<br />

explain the health benefits<br />

of the Mediterranean diet.<br />

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Beauty<br />

Never too late!<br />

We asked fitness guru and personal trainer Sarah Maxwell for<br />

her advice on building an exercise routine later in life …<br />

1<br />

IS IT EVER TOO LATE TO START?<br />

I believe it’s never too late to start exercising.<br />

The positives are huge for the over 60s, there<br />

are diverse improvements ranging from increases<br />

in strength and flexibility to improvements in<br />

circulation and bone density. I run a variety of exercise<br />

classes and have many people over sixty involved.<br />

I encourage everyone of all ages and levels to go at their<br />

own pace and enjoy themselves whilst doing it.<br />

2<br />

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES<br />

There are a wide range of classes, as close as your local<br />

leisure centre or village hall. Gyms aren’t for everyone<br />

but this doesn’t mean there aren’t many other ways to exercise.<br />

Some great things to try for beginners are:<br />

. Yoga<br />

. Tai Chi . Walking<br />

. Zumba . Water Fitness dance classes<br />

. Pilates<br />

. Ballet Barre<br />

groups<br />

. Ballroom<br />

It’s a great time to try new things and find out what<br />

works best for you. Classes are great because you can go<br />

along on your own or take a friend for support. Start<br />

with a beginners’ class and let the teacher know you’re<br />

new to exercise so they can help, encourage and get you<br />

on the right track safely and effectively. Exercising with<br />

others is proven to be the most effective way to maintain<br />

a routine and encouragement plays an important role.<br />

3<br />

HOW MANY TIMES A WEEK?<br />

I would suggest a minimum of two sessions<br />

a week to get results. Start out gently and<br />

build up gradually so you improve consistently and<br />

prevent injury. Space the classes a couple of days<br />

apart so your body gets a chance to recover between<br />

sessions. Try to fit in some regular cardiovascular<br />

exercise between classes such as walking or swimming.<br />

As your fitness improves you’ll notice that you have more<br />

energy and confidence and are more active in everyday tasks.<br />

4WHAT BENEFITS CAN<br />

I EXPECT TO SEE<br />

FROM EXERCISING?<br />

Regular exercise will tone your<br />

body, increase your metabolism<br />

and make you feel great on the <strong>inside</strong> and<br />

outside. It also has many benefits for your health<br />

and wellbeing in general: research shows that<br />

physical activity can also boost self-esteem, mood,<br />

sleep quality and energy, as well as reducing<br />

your risk of stress, depression, dementia and<br />

Alzheimer’s disease. The best medicine you can<br />

give your body and mind is a regular exercise routine,<br />

even one that just involves walking and moving more.<br />

5MOTIVATION<br />

Getting started with exercise is one thing,<br />

keeping it up is another. I advise my clients to<br />

set short term goals that are easy to stick to. People are<br />

motivated when they start but without goals they find it<br />

difficult. Planning sessions ahead in your diary is a great<br />

motivator. Teaming up with someone in your class or a<br />

friend can also help enormously. Fun is the name of the<br />

game. If you dread going along to your class it’s time to<br />

change and try something new. Make a list of all of the<br />

classes/activities you would like to try and give them a go.<br />

Sarah Maxwell is a professional<br />

PT and group exercise<br />

instructor based in<br />

Cranbrook. She is HAB<br />

personal trainer<br />

of the year. Visit<br />

sarahmaxwell.<br />

co.uk or call<br />

07973 233668.<br />

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The power<br />

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Julie Simpson looks at new research<br />

showing that lifestyle changes can<br />

reverse cognitive decline<br />

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All the older women in my family<br />

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showed, but it is a cruel illness however<br />

long and good your life has been.<br />

So, as a sixty-year-old with a lot of<br />

dementia in my family, it’s great to hear<br />

of any progress in the battle to fight<br />

this horrible disease which affects 30<br />

million people globally and is expected<br />

to rise to 160 million by 2050.<br />

Drugs take a long time to develop<br />

and dementia is a complex nut to crack<br />

as it’s now thought to have a variety<br />

of causes. So, while we wait and hope<br />

for a magic pill to stem the tide, some<br />

recent research showing that lifestyle<br />

changes can reverse cognitive decline<br />

feels like a breakthrough. Even better,<br />

if the research is correct, then making<br />

the changes used by the researchers<br />

could prevent the brain changes that<br />

bring about serious problems later.<br />

Admittedly, the trail was small: the<br />

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and Buck Institute for Research on<br />

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put ten patients exhibiting memory<br />

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After 3-6 months nine of them<br />

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The programme was built around<br />

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This is how it was done<br />

Sleep: patients were told to get 7-8<br />

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included a 12-hour food fast at night,<br />

with supper being eaten three hours<br />

before bedtime, to reduce insulin levels.<br />

Diet: patients were put on plant-based<br />

diets, eliminating carbohydrates, gluten<br />

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Beautiful<br />

Eating<br />

Recipes: Madeleine Shaw<br />

Photographs: Martin Poole<br />

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Food<br />

Following her appearance at <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />

Midsummer Fair last month, bestselling<br />

food writer and nutritional health coach<br />

Madeleine Shaw shares wholesome, flavourful<br />

recipes supercharged with all the vitamins<br />

and minerals your body needs to keep<br />

you glowing with health all year round.<br />

Oregano-Infused Potato Salad<br />

with Fennel and Leeks<br />

Potatoes have had a bad rep over the years. Sure, they<br />

are a bit carby, but cold potatoes are rather spectacular.<br />

You see, cold potatoes contain lots of starch... which is<br />

amazing for your gut. And a healthy gut means clear<br />

skin, so let’s get munching on those spuds – yum!<br />

Serves 4 Prep time: 20 mins Cooking time: 25 mins<br />

• 2 leeks, trimmed<br />

• 1 tbsp avocado<br />

oil or butter<br />

• salt and freshly ground<br />

black pepper, to taste<br />

• 400g Jersey Royals<br />

• 50ml veggie or chicken<br />

stock, just boiled<br />

• sprig of fresh<br />

oregano, leaves<br />

picked and chopped<br />

• 100g rocket<br />

• 1 fennel bulb<br />

• 2 spring onions<br />

• 30g walnuts,<br />

roughly chopped<br />

• 2 tbsp chopped<br />

fresh parsley<br />

• 1 tbsp olive oil<br />

1. Finely chop the leeks into thin slivers. Heat<br />

the oil in a large pan and sauté the leeks<br />

with a pinch of salt and pepper for 20<br />

minutes, until golden and caramelised.<br />

2. While the leeks are cooking, boil the potatoes in a<br />

pot of simmering salted water for 20-25 minutes<br />

until tender. Drain them and slice in half, then put<br />

back into the same pot you cooked them in. Pour<br />

over the hot stock and add the oregano and a pinch<br />

of salt. Leave while you prep the rest of the salad.<br />

3. Place the rocket in a bowl. Thinly slice the fennel<br />

with a mandolin into fine ribbons and add to the<br />

rocket, then tip in the cooked leeks and potatoes.<br />

4. Finely chop the spring onions and throw them<br />

over the salad, along with the nuts, parsley, a big<br />

pinch of salt and the olive oil. Toss and serve. <br />

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Food<br />

Chicken Ramen<br />

Serves 4 Prep time: 15 mins<br />

Cooking time: 25 mins<br />

This is my take on one of our<br />

Japanese favourites. Ramen has<br />

totally exploded in popularity<br />

in recent years, but what many<br />

people don’t realise is that it’s<br />

so easy to make at home when<br />

you want a warming meal.<br />

Chicken stock is great when<br />

you’re feeling run-down because<br />

it contains immune-boosting<br />

minerals such as calcium,<br />

magnesium, phosphorus, silicon<br />

and sulphur, which makes ramen<br />

such fantastic comfort food.<br />

• 1 tbsp coconut oil<br />

or butter<br />

• 1 tsp freshly grated ginger<br />

• 1 garlic clove, crushed<br />

• 500ml chicken stock<br />

• 200g button mushrooms<br />

• 1 red chilli, deseeded<br />

and finely chopped<br />

• 1 tbsp tamari or soy sauce<br />

• 2 chicken breasts or<br />

thighs, cut into strips<br />

• 100g rice noodles<br />

• 2 eggs<br />

• salt, to taste<br />

• 2 carrots, julienned<br />

• juice of ½ lime<br />

• 2 spring onions,<br />

finely chopped<br />

• 1 tbsp toasted<br />

sesame seeds<br />

1. Heat the oil in a large pan, add the ginger and garlic and sauté for 30 seconds. Next<br />

add the stock, mushrooms, chilli, tamari and chicken pieces. Cook for 20 minutes.<br />

2. Meanwhile, cook your rice noodles as per the packet instructions in a<br />

separate pot. In another pot, boil the eggs in plenty of water for 4 minutes,<br />

until the whites are cooked but the yolk is still runny. Once cool enough<br />

to handle, peel and slice the eggs in half and sprinkle on a little salt.<br />

3. Just before serving, throw the carrots and cooked noodles into the<br />

soup and squeeze in the lime juice. Top with the boiled egg halves,<br />

spring onions and sesame seeds, then serve immediately.<br />

<br />

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Food<br />

Summer Lovin’ Bowl<br />

My favourite film of all time is Grease... so you can see where<br />

the name comes from. This is basically a combination of all the<br />

things I love about summer. It’s a real mixture of things, but<br />

it really packs a punch. Say hello to flavour and goodbye to<br />

soggy lettuce in Tupperware, and take this to work instead!<br />

Serves 2 Prep time: 15 mins Cooking time: 40 mins<br />

• 2 large beetroots<br />

• 1 tbsp avocado oil or<br />

melted coconut oil<br />

• salt and freshly ground<br />

black pepper, to taste<br />

• 100g buckwheat<br />

• 1 cucumber, chopped into<br />

1cm chunks<br />

• 1 mango, peeled, stoned and<br />

chopped into 1cm chunks<br />

• juice of 1 lime<br />

• 2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander<br />

• 1 jalapeño chilli, deseeded<br />

• 4 tbsp hummus<br />

• 1 tbsp chopped walnuts<br />

For the dressing<br />

• 2 tbsp almond butter<br />

• 1 tbsp olive oil<br />

• 1 tbsp lemon juice<br />

• 1 tsp nutritional yeast<br />

(if you can find it)<br />

• 1 tsp tamari<br />

• pinch of chilli powder<br />

• pinch of smoked paprika<br />

• 1 tbsp cold water<br />

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/<br />

gas mark 6. Peel and cut the beetroots<br />

into 2½cm chunks. Put in a roasting<br />

tray and mix with the oil and a big<br />

pinch of salt and pepper. Roast for<br />

30-40 minutes until cooked through.<br />

2. While the beetroots are cooking, cook<br />

the buckwheat and make the dressing.<br />

First rinse the buckwheat in warm<br />

water, then place in a pot with 250ml<br />

of cold water and a pinch of salt.<br />

Bring to the boil and simmer for 12<br />

minutes until cooked through and all<br />

the water has been absorbed. Whisk<br />

the dressing ingredients together.<br />

3. Mix the cucumber, mango and lime<br />

juice together with the coriander and<br />

jalapeño. Plate up the roasted beets with<br />

the cooked buckwheat, hummus and<br />

walnuts, plus the cucumber and mango<br />

salad. Drizzle over the dressing.


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It’s not a coincidence that I love<br />

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blossomed at a young age, but I also<br />

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I returned from Australia. I’d just set<br />

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favourite treats gluten, dairy and<br />

refined sugar free. Well, I finally did<br />

it with the madeleines, but I have to<br />

say I’m yet to crack the croissant!<br />

Makes 16, serves 6-8<br />

Prep time: 20 mins Cooking time: 10 mins<br />

• 50g coconut oil, melted,<br />

plus extra for greasing<br />

• 60ml almond milk<br />

• 85g maple syrup or honey<br />

• grated zest of 1 lemon<br />

• 1 egg, beaten<br />

• 1 tsp vanilla extract<br />

• 120g buckwheat or<br />

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• 1 tsp baking powder<br />

• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda<br />

For the strawberry chia jam<br />

• 400g strawberries<br />

• 4 tsp chia seeds<br />

• 3 tbsp maple syrup<br />

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/<br />

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tray with melted coconut oil.<br />

2. Make the jam by blending the<br />

strawberries, chia seeds and<br />

maple syrup until smooth.<br />

Leave on the side – the chia<br />

seeds will soak up the liquid<br />

and the mixture will become<br />

gelatinous after 10 minutes.<br />

3. To make the madeleines, whisk the<br />

coconut oil, almond milk, maple<br />

syrup, lemon zest, egg and vanilla<br />

together in a large bowl. Sift in the<br />

flour, baking powder and bicarb<br />

and stir to mix. Pour the batter<br />

into the madeleine moulds and<br />

bake in the oven for 10 minutes.<br />

4. Serve the madeleines with a<br />

dollop of jam. They are also<br />

great dipped in chocolate.<br />

These recipes are taken from A Year of<br />

Beautiful Eating by Madeleine Shaw,<br />

published by Trapeze in hardback and<br />

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Sue Whigham talks about the evolution of her own<br />

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It was 1996 when we first saw the garden, and it<br />

was love at first sight. There was a paddock for our<br />

donkeys and an orchard behind the house with old<br />

lichen covered apple trees. And many of them are still here,<br />

looking a little elderly and some of which have become<br />

climbing frames for roses. We’re eternally grateful to Miss<br />

Richards who planted the orchard in 1952 and who left<br />

us a now very faded hand written plan of her trees. What<br />

wonderful varieties she sourced. A row of Peasgood’s<br />

Nonsuch is still standing as well as the old Yorkshire<br />

variety, Ribston Pippin, grown since the 18th Century,<br />

and one of my favourites, the robust and delicious cooker,<br />

M. ‘Arthur Turner’, still laden with fruit every autumn.<br />

We’re trying to remember what we did first apart<br />

from taking down some of the hurdles around the<br />

orchard which housed a few pet sheep here and there<br />

and rather foolishly buying a few tiny grass and ghost<br />

carp to control the water lilies that had become triffid<br />

like in the dew pond to the east of the house.<br />

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climbing and rambling roses that went in first.<br />

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up two of the Peasgood’s Nonsuch and whilst<br />

they are still very much there, their nature<br />

doesn’t really suit being trained up trees. We<br />

didn’t really know then that ramblers are so<br />

much better suited for the job whilst climbers<br />

have a rather more complicated pruning regime<br />

which is so difficult to carry out when they are<br />

clambering around in their host’s branches.<br />

We’d been reading Robin Lane Fox’s book,<br />

Better Gardening, which we think might have<br />

been the only gardening book we had then.<br />

So taking his advice and reading what he said about Rosa<br />

‘Blairii No. 2’ we started with that, seduced by his description<br />

of a rose whose petals are so ‘tightly packed that the scent,<br />

too, is doubled, like the fruit of a sweet white German<br />

wine’. And it is true except that much of the bloom is now<br />

too high to do anything but admire from ground level.<br />

Rosa ‘Paul Transon’ was another early arrival and we can’t<br />

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Lane Fox’s book,<br />

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might have been<br />

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Hypericum and ‘Fox and Cubs’<br />

recommend it more. We’d worked out by then that a rambler<br />

was more suitable for the trees so this went in. It’s a repeat<br />

flowerer, a rich salmon with ‘coppery overtones’ but the best<br />

thing about it is its unusual and rich scent.<br />

And then there were ramblers like Rosa<br />

‘Phyllis Bide’ first spotted whilst on a bus<br />

driving through Odiham, R. ‘Rambling<br />

Rector’, too vigorous for its host, but showy,<br />

and the delicate R. ‘Cecile Brunner’ which is<br />

just coming out now and which uses a rather<br />

decrepit old prunus as a climbing frame, the<br />

soft pink of the rose combining with the<br />

purple foliage. Later additions include R.<br />

‘Wedding Day’ and two less vigorous roses,<br />

R. ‘Apple Blossom’ and R. ‘Open Arms’,<br />

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Hardy’ is lovely; white with a green eye but alas, no scent.<br />

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Vernon’s Bluebell Nursery. These were bought as small plants<br />

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good idea to start small if you feel you have the time to wait.<br />

The trunk of the beautiful birch, B. ermanii split and<br />

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Garden<br />

R. ‘Open Arms’<br />

hornets feasted on the sap. It had to be bandaged with the<br />

remains of an old sheet but made a remarkable recovery. One<br />

of the slowest trees to establish, a beautiful lime introduced<br />

by Ernest Wilson from the wilds of China, Tilia henryana,<br />

is now romping away and maybe one day soon it will start<br />

to produce its autumn flowers. Look out for this one. It has<br />

huge ovate leaves which are toothed and so very striking.<br />

Clematis were planted here and there. Some have<br />

thrived but in this last dry spell, two or three seem to have<br />

disappeared. The soft pink C. ‘Duchess of Albany’ has gone<br />

in this year with the idea of it providing late summer interest<br />

through a grey leaved Elaeagnus ‘Quicksilver’. I love the late<br />

flowering clematis. Their bell-like flowers appear when you<br />

are least expecting them. The house and sheds are<br />

smothered with C. montana ‘Wilsonii’. Many of<br />

the plants have self seeded and combined with<br />

a Persian ivy which arrived as a cutting from a<br />

friend’s plant in Benenden. C. ‘Wilsonii’ is a<br />

good doer and its fragrant white flowers come<br />

a little later than many of the other montanas.<br />

Gravel in the garden has proved to be<br />

a fantastic growing medium as there is<br />

always something new popping up and<br />

there are now interesting combinations<br />

of self sown hypericums and the prolific burnt orange<br />

flowers of ‘Fox and Cubs’ which came from a Winchelsea<br />

garden open under the National Garden Scheme and<br />

a low growing Euphorbia cyparissias ‘Fens Ruby’.<br />

Borders were dug and filled with a mixture of shrubs and<br />

perennials. One border proved to be too ambitious and the<br />

soil baked hard in the summer. As its nutritional value didn’t<br />

seem to improve despite the addition of copious amounts<br />

of compost and grit, we’ve abandoned ship and a third of it<br />

has now been sown with a wild flower and grass mix from<br />

Emorsgate Seeds. It’s a huge success this year although a<br />

few less ox eye daisies in the mix would have been better.<br />

What survivors these are. I have never known anything to<br />

proliferate quite as much! The other parts of the border are<br />

“It took years to<br />

take out a huge<br />

and exceedingly<br />

geriatric privet<br />

hedge from<br />

round the little<br />

vegetable patch”<br />

R. ‘Blairi No.2’ in the trees<br />

waiting for attention and meanwhile the teasels and purple<br />

fennel have taken up residence and look very happy too.<br />

It took years to take out a huge and exceedingly<br />

geriatric privet hedge from round the little vegetable<br />

patch, apparently highly prolific in our predecessors’ day.<br />

Getting rid of this and replacing it with a picket fence<br />

now planted up with a cultivated blackberry, boysenberries<br />

and that really decorative Japanese Rubus<br />

phoenicolasius is a great improvement and<br />

it’s much more fun to see a few dahlias<br />

and salvias growing together through the<br />

kitchen window rather than the hedge.<br />

A giant purple fennel has appeared and<br />

reaches great heights by the end of the season<br />

too and provides a good backdrop to Salvia<br />

‘Amistad’ and that lovely variety, Salvia<br />

confertiflora. Both of these need to be lifted at<br />

the end of the year and a few cuttings taken but<br />

they strike easily and are worth the effort. S. ‘Amistad’ starts<br />

flowering in <strong>July</strong> – earlier if it has been kept in a greenhouse<br />

– and its dark purple flowers are still going in November.<br />

And so each year things change – a little. Some<br />

plants start to outgrow their space and have to be hard<br />

pruned; the apples need attention each winter and<br />

gradually need replacing. Moss seems to take over the<br />

lawn but by early June everything is looking rosy.<br />

Sue Whigham can be contacted on 07810 457948 for<br />

gardening advice and help in the sourcing and supply of<br />

interesting garden plants.<br />

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Garden<br />

Second out, round two!<br />

Jo Arnell explains that it’s never too late to get the most out of your veg garden over the summer months<br />

I’m all for trying again when I don’t succeed, for never<br />

saying die and persisting in the face of unsurmountable<br />

odds; in another life I might be climbing mountains or<br />

swimming the channel. In this one I’m attempting to grow<br />

vegetables. It would be easy, if it weren’t for a myriad of<br />

factors that conspire against me (my own nature probably<br />

being one). There’s the weather – it is either too cold, too<br />

windy, too hot or too many things in rapid succession; there<br />

are pests galore helping themselves left and right, from above<br />

and below. And then there are mysterious problems linked<br />

to the soil, or the general health of the plants. Let’s not even<br />

mention the events in life and work that take us far away<br />

from thoughts of vegetable growing. It can be easy to lose<br />

the plot. If you’ve been lucky, or very diligent, you may have<br />

managed to avoid most pitfalls and already have harvested and<br />

cleared a space. On the other hand (mine’s a grubby, blistered<br />

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Choose fast maturing vegetables and those that<br />

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Baby beetroot can be nearly as fast, with the added bonus<br />

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Garden<br />

Summer crops can be prone to bolting – that is,<br />

running to seed before you have a chance to harvest<br />

them. Make sure that they get adequate water and sow<br />

bolt proof varieties of things like beetroot, coriander<br />

and spinach.<br />

Fast maturing vegetables will give you a harvest<br />

in just a few weeks, but this is also a good time for<br />

sowing crops to harvest in the autumn and winter.<br />

Salads, mange tout peas, baby carrots and dwarf beans<br />

are quick croppers, while a row or two of kale, Swiss<br />

chard, broccoli or spring cabbage will provide a harvest<br />

during the colder months.<br />

Pests can increase to plague proportions in the<br />

summer months and decimate crops, so make sure that<br />

you protect them with fine netting or fleece. Grow<br />

carrots in raised containers to keep out carrot fly.<br />

Tender plants like beans and courgettes must be<br />

harvested before the first frosts arrive and need about<br />

10-12 weeks from sowing to cropping.<br />

Peas are useful to grow in succession – there’s a fast<br />

one, aptly called ‘Meteor’ and then there are mange<br />

tout varieties, which are eaten as young pods.<br />

Dwarf beans are faster than climbing beans because they<br />

don’t have to make a giant beanstalk before starting to<br />

flower and form pods. Sowing to harvest time should be<br />

around 10 weeks. Make sure that beans are well watered<br />

in dry spells, especially when they’re forming their pods.<br />

You should just get away with a sowing of courgettes<br />

now too. Remember that courgettes and beans are<br />

tender, so the latest you can sow for a harvest before<br />

the frosts is probably <strong>July</strong>. Some years it stays mild until<br />

December, but frosts can come as early as September…<br />

<strong>July</strong> is generally the last month to sow carrots for an autumn<br />

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ones around – ‘Chantenay’ is quite a good one, or a quick<br />

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Lettuce needs cool, light conditions in which to germinate.<br />

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Garden<br />

Herbs, especially annuals like Coriander, Chervil, Dill and<br />

Parsley (a biennial) are very easy to sow and grow. Depending<br />

on how much you need, sow small quantities right through<br />

the growing season. Coriander is prone to running to seed<br />

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Cilantro, which is less annoying and has the same flavour.<br />

Planning ahead<br />

This is a good time to start thinking about sowing crops for<br />

the autumn and winter such as Swiss chard, perpetual spinach<br />

and kale. These leafy stalwarts will provide harvests right<br />

through the winter and into the early spring. Protect kale from<br />

caterpillars in the summer, and pesky pigeons in the winter.<br />

Oriental greens like pak choi, tatsoi and mustards like<br />

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Frills’) can be sown towards the end of the month. These<br />

are best grown either side of the summer – so in the spring<br />

or at the end of the summer. They are good and reliably<br />

fast (pak choi may need a little watering, so that the base<br />

swells – and it can get attacked by caterpillars). Sometimes<br />

the leaves of oriental greens become peppered with tiny<br />

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The rush of early season growth may be over, but the<br />

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Tutoring is a mixed blessing. In my time I’ve done<br />

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in the evening because I had a young family and there<br />

was never enough money. And of course many parents<br />

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there are entrance tests or public examinations at stake.<br />

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September. Meanwhile she’s working in three secondary schools<br />

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Jane Howard’s<br />

Fables from the Farm<br />

Jane is thrilled to see that her wildflower meadow is a blooming success at last<br />

Summer has at last arrived. Everyone<br />

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done so, the sheep and cattle<br />

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I have written before about the flower<br />

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we had to kill off five acres of grass – no<br />

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twice it bounced straight back – and then<br />

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quite rare Ragged Robin,<br />

Yellow Rattle and Corn<br />

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along a fence line where it meets the field.<br />

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only take one season<br />

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others look like dead tough hockey<br />

goalies. Some are plain like the Straw<br />

Dots, while others were marvellously<br />

patterned like the Marbled Carpet.<br />

A whole new journey of discovery!<br />

On the night, we trapped (and<br />

released) more than 30 different<br />

moths. Only 2,470 to go!<br />

Follow Jane Howard – and the farm<br />

– on Instagram @coopersfarm<br />

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