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GARDEN Supplement <strong>inside</strong><br />
Inspirational Interiors • Fabulous Fashion • Delicious Dishes<br />
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Contents<br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
44<br />
110<br />
132<br />
24<br />
LATER LIVING STYLE<br />
Maggie Alderson finds the best<br />
of retirement properties<br />
103<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Ideas to try from Marta<br />
Nowicka’s style sheet<br />
132<br />
FROM AN ENGLISH GARDEN<br />
Aaron Bertelsen of Great Dixter’s<br />
simply beautiful recipes<br />
37<br />
APRIL NOTEBOOK<br />
<strong>Surrey</strong> events to take<br />
note of this month<br />
105<br />
FLOOR PLANS<br />
We take a look at three<br />
fabulous flooring trends<br />
145<br />
LET THE CHILDREN SPEAK<br />
Hilary Wilce on the importance of<br />
helping children find their voices<br />
44<br />
69<br />
72<br />
80<br />
FAMILY FAVOURS<br />
Interior designer Alexis Wylie<br />
rejuenvates a family home<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Inspiration for how to emulate<br />
Alexis Wylie’s unique style<br />
INTERIOR DIRECTIONS<br />
The details that will bring<br />
your home bang up to date<br />
COASTAL HAVEN<br />
Kathryn Flett loves the lack of<br />
cliché in this maritime cottage<br />
110<br />
123<br />
127<br />
128<br />
RAIN OR SHINE<br />
Kate Watts combats<br />
<strong>April</strong> showers in style<br />
SOAP STARS<br />
Jo Fairley is bringing<br />
back the bar<br />
SPRING INTO SUMMER<br />
Strictly no scalpels in these<br />
summer-ready solutions<br />
A YEAR OF WELLNESS<br />
Eminé Rushton begins her Year of<br />
Wellness with a cleanse<br />
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WHAT’S ON?<br />
Events to keep you busy this month<br />
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HOUSE OF THE MONTH<br />
1.<br />
1.<br />
Later living it up<br />
Maggie Alderson is looking forward to the<br />
next of life’s housing stages<br />
Life’s housing stages used to divide up neatly into parental home, first<br />
home and family home… then it all got a bit vague. If you were lucky<br />
there would be a granny flat arrangement with one of the sprogs, if not<br />
there were very few options, especially once the point was reached when even a<br />
retirement bungalow got a bit much to deal with.<br />
How quickly and brilliantly that has all changed, with the dawn of the<br />
appealing concept of ‘later years living’, with the emphasis very much on the<br />
word living. That’s how we think about the stage after the family home years<br />
now, another style of living, not a custodial sentence. Something to look<br />
forward to.<br />
Now there is a whole new genre of retirement living options, with<br />
developments so well designed that, rather than induce regret at the house<br />
and environs left behind, they can inspire a whole new lease of energy, with<br />
an invigorated social life. And not having to worry about roofs, gutters, lawns,<br />
fallen leaves etc ever again. The joy.<br />
I consider myself particularly well versed in this segment of the property<br />
market, having researched it very thoroughly for my mother and being so<br />
impressed with what I saw, I was inspired to set a large part of the action in my<br />
most recent novel in a glamorous retirement development (The Scent of You, out<br />
in June).<br />
The apartments themselves, in every later years set-up I visited, are sleek and<br />
thoughtfully equipped to take unnecessary little irritants out of daily life, with<br />
luxuries such as electric windows, illuminated light switches at elbow height<br />
and front doors that don’t lock automatically on closure.<br />
I can also attest to the quality of the social aspect. Lunch with my mum’s<br />
new group of friends is a riot and the wine flows. Here are some of the best<br />
retirement developments currently on the market.<br />
1. Lynwood Village<br />
Where? Lynwood Village is set in<br />
Sunninghill, near Ascot, one of the most<br />
desirable locations in Berkshire. Windsor<br />
Great Park, Savill <strong>Garden</strong>s, Virginia<br />
Water and the world-class golf courses of<br />
Wentworth, Sunningdale and Royal Ascot<br />
are all nearby and it’s less than an hour by<br />
train to London Waterloo.<br />
What? Lynwood Village is an awardwinning<br />
retirement community for over<br />
65s with an impressive range of facilities,<br />
beautifully designed, with apartments<br />
and duplexes with one, two, three or four<br />
bedrooms, or two-bedroom cottages.<br />
Central facilities include a restaurant,<br />
coffee shop, swimming pool, hair salon,<br />
shop, spa, therapy centre, bowls, croquet<br />
and snooker. There is a busy programme<br />
of activities, events and excursions, plus a<br />
24-hour concierge and home care service.<br />
Should owners’ needs change Lynwood<br />
Care Centre is located on the same site,<br />
providing life-enhancing residential care.<br />
How much? Prices range from<br />
£415,000 for a one bedroom apartment,<br />
to £1,580,000 for four bedrooms. 01344<br />
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2. Laurel Lodge<br />
Where? Laurel Lodge is a collection<br />
of 57 newly built one and two-bedroom<br />
retirement apartments located near the<br />
heart of Carshalton. A charming <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
village with excellent transport links into<br />
town, it retains a pleasant village feel,<br />
with shops, restaurants, cafes, pubs and<br />
tea rooms. The development is set in<br />
landscaped grounds in a central location, a<br />
short distance from transport links, shops<br />
and all the local amenities.<br />
What? The self-contained apartments<br />
are spacious and well-designed, with<br />
rooms appointed with the over 60s<br />
in mind, with easy-turn lever taps in<br />
both the kitchen and bathroom and<br />
illuminated light switches. In the twobedroom<br />
apartment the master bed has<br />
an ensuite shower room and there is a<br />
separate guest cloakroom off the hall.<br />
The kitchen leads off the living room and<br />
there is a useful storage closet. A lodge<br />
manager oversees the day-to-day running<br />
of the development and there is an<br />
owners’ lounge and coffee bar, plus a wellappointed<br />
guest suite.<br />
How much? One-bedroom<br />
apartments at Laurel Lodge start<br />
from £299,950 and two bedrooms<br />
from £439,950. 020 8712 3142<br />
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3. Elmbridge Village<br />
Where? Elmbridge Retirement<br />
Village sits is in a countryside setting<br />
nestled between the <strong>Surrey</strong> Hills Area of<br />
Outstanding Beauty and the South Downs<br />
National Park, close to the lively village of<br />
Cranleigh. Guildford is a 25 minute drive<br />
and there are no fewer than five railway<br />
stations within five minutes. Gatwick<br />
Airport can be reached in under 40.<br />
What? The two-bedroom Elmbridge<br />
Suite is located in the Elmbridge Manor<br />
clubhouse, close to the village clubhouse<br />
with communal facilities including a<br />
main hall with stage, restaurant and<br />
private dining room, bar and lounge,<br />
multipurpose function room, meeting<br />
rooms, library, village shop, treatment<br />
rooms and guest rooms. The apartment<br />
is in a prime elevated position, with a<br />
private balcony accessible from the lounge<br />
and both bedrooms. Both bedrooms have<br />
en suites and walk in wardrobes.<br />
How much?<br />
The Elmbridge Suite is on the market for<br />
£780,000 (other charges apply) as a oneoff<br />
luxury appartment.<br />
All the properties at Elmbridge<br />
Retirement Village are marketed by Roger<br />
Coupe 01483 268 555 rogercoupe.com See<br />
more at elmbridgevillage.co.uk<br />
01483 676100.<br />
4. Durrants Village<br />
Where? Durrants Village is set amongst<br />
30 acres of idyllic parkland and beautiful<br />
West Sussex countryside in the hamlet<br />
of Faygate, close to the market town of<br />
Horsham, from where it’s just over an hour<br />
to Victoria. Gatwick Airport is a cheeky 20<br />
minute drive.<br />
What? The village offers 175 luxury<br />
retirement properties – two-bedroom<br />
apartments and two and three bedroom<br />
cottages. The homes centre around an<br />
on-site clubhouse providing country<br />
club-style facilities, including a restaurant,<br />
bar, lounge, swimming pool, gym and<br />
library. Within the landscaped grounds<br />
there is also a croquet lawn and a lake<br />
with duck houses. The management will<br />
also be implementing bespoke home-care<br />
services that will offer residents a hotel-style<br />
standard of service, as well as an increased<br />
level of care, should their needs change in<br />
the future.<br />
How much? Prices start from<br />
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Previous page: Ally commissioned bespoke bookshelves to create a focal point in the sitting room. The walls are painted in Farrow &<br />
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The Weald of Kent is a very special part of the world,<br />
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one snowy morning visit, a robin red breast perched on the<br />
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It’s a magical spot.<br />
The house is equally blessed, a perfect combination of cosy<br />
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It also has that lovely circular flow, which always makes a<br />
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There are also various sets of French windows, so you can<br />
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Above and left: These chairs which had belonged to homeowner<br />
Jo’s mum, were looking a bit tired, but reupholstered with two<br />
old Mexican blankets Ally found in the big clear out, they are<br />
now the focal point in the hall – and a very handy place to hang<br />
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for family life, there was a time when the hectic demands of<br />
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With three kids growing up through the stages of school life,<br />
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Owner Jo had put in the dining room extension that so<br />
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Right: Looking from the cloakroom hallway, through the hall,<br />
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Above: Ally had the dresser made to replace the dark wood dresser she moved to the sitting room and to reflect the kitchen’s<br />
contemporary country style. Baskets and apple crates are her favourite tools for keeping clutter organised<br />
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Above: Jo put in the dining room extension which joins up the kitchen and the snug, when she first moved in 14 years ago,<br />
combining the beams of the original 16th century cottage with a light airy modern feel. The glorious four-oven Aga, was already in<br />
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Ally first visited at the end of September, had her swat team<br />
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“I was hanging pictures on December 23rd…” she says.<br />
But that was the fun end of the project, which started with<br />
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“Jo was ruthless,” says Ally. “We had a system: in the skip, or<br />
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twice the size now we’ve cleared it out.”<br />
And while Jo was determinedly getting rid of unwanted<br />
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it – Ally was at work organising the interior starting with the<br />
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as their designated space to stash their stuff between outings.<br />
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She was also on the hunt for family pieces that could be<br />
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spotted some bold Mexican blankets and rescued them from<br />
the skip.<br />
“They’d been on the floor for years,” says Ally, “and looked<br />
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came up beautifully.”<br />
The chairs were transformed and what had seemed like<br />
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Also pressed into service was a trove of fabrics Jo found<br />
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Another great find was bolts of African printed fabrics,<br />
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Above: The main change Ally made in the dining room, was to turn Jo’s table round, so it leads on invitingly from the kitchen. Ally<br />
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Above: The copper-lined pulley light over the dining table is by Original BTC (it was a bargain Ally found under the discontinued<br />
clearance table.). The leather club chair was a family favourite. Ally gave it new life with cushions covered in vibrant African fabrics<br />
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Above left: Ally has used the same curtain fabric upstairs in a different colourway. The chair is a Dunelm find, with one of Ally’s<br />
signature cushions covered in fabric from an old grain sack. Ally urged Jo to buy the beautiful armoire to give the room a focal point.<br />
Above right: In one of the children’s bedrooms, Ally had the headboard upholstered in the grain sack fabric, to set off the mixed<br />
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The two sofas in the snug, which Jo already had, were<br />
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“Channelled feather cushions,” says Ally firmly, “it is<br />
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“It’s IKEA,” says Ali, grinning. “I had the carpenter build a<br />
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Probably the simplest change Ally made and one of the most<br />
transforming, was in the dining area. She turned the table<br />
around, so it is now sitting alongside the French window, <br />
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Above left: A chair in a spare bedroom recovered with a patchwork quilt made by Jo’s mother. Above right: Ally had bookshelves<br />
built in the guest cloakroom and papered the walls with Jane Churchill’s March Hare wallpaper in the stone colourway<br />
not pointing out into it and back into the snug.<br />
You can see immediately what a difference this would<br />
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Previous page: The dining table is medieval. It was given to<br />
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Previous page: The clock in the<br />
sitting room was found in South<br />
Kensington on one of Marta’s<br />
father’s sites This page left: The<br />
salvaged shutters are French.<br />
Marta put them in to suggest a<br />
window where there isn’t one. She<br />
also wanted to have French things<br />
in the house to reflect Rye’s status<br />
as a Cinque Port Below: Marta<br />
left the patina of old paint on the<br />
main staircase, as part of the story<br />
of the house<br />
without letting that dictate the terms of engagement.<br />
It’s a balance which is pulled off quite beautifully by<br />
the interior architect Marta Nowicka at her holiday-let<br />
coastguard’s cottage at Jury’s Gap — a weather-swept<br />
stretch of coastline between Camber and the MOD<br />
shooting range at Lydd, close to Romney Marsh. This, of<br />
course, isn’t the tastefully manicured seaside of counties<br />
further west; it’s a thoroughly no-nonsense and in-yourface<br />
variety of seaside and as such it isn’t for everyone.<br />
Marta, a Londoner, fell in love with the area by accident,<br />
finding her way to the East Sussex and Kent coastal borders<br />
via friends who had property there. Alerted to the existence<br />
of the striking row of four-storey Victorian coastguard’s<br />
cottages inhabited by similarly creative owner-occupiers, she<br />
bought the one at the end, closest to the sea, in 2009 with<br />
a legacy from her late father, and renovated it with love,<br />
before moving in with her young son, now a teenager.<br />
“Obviously he never visited, but many of my father’s <br />
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This page: Fresh paint on the chimney breast in the westfacing<br />
single bedroom sets off the untreated walls on either side. The<br />
window looks out onto Rye Harbour. The curtain fabric is from<br />
Vintage Bird in Hastings<br />
objects are here, so I feel the house is very much of him.<br />
These days all the coastguard’s cottages here are holiday<br />
lets, however at that time, just a few years ago, there was<br />
still a resident community of mostly artists and writers.<br />
My son was at school in Ashford and so we basically<br />
just battened down the hatches here. It was magical.”<br />
It was also, one may say, quite brave. Though glorious<br />
from spring through to autumn, in winter it will come<br />
as no surprise to learn that this stretch of coast can be,<br />
at best, bracing. I live 30 minutes to the west along<br />
the same coast, in Hastings and St Leonards, and I’m<br />
used to what we call the “Lid-On” months, when<br />
the weather hits the shoreline with a vengeance.<br />
There’s a romance to it, for sure — and the ozone blast<br />
of seaside living is wonderfully cobweb-busting—however,<br />
when I visit Marta’s house on a bleak, nearly spring<br />
morning, I’m struck by the bravery of being a newly-single<br />
mother living here with a young child. However, after<br />
even a few minutes in her company you are struck by the<br />
sense that Marta is a woman who makes things work and,<br />
as she says, “it worked very well for us, for a while.”<br />
It’s not hard to see why. Savouring the architectural<br />
quirks of a family home that was built primarily for the<br />
business of coastal defence, not pleasure, Marta retained<br />
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This page: The staircase from the ground floor up to the<br />
first floor. The rope handrail is a subtle nod to the maritime<br />
connection of the cottage<br />
as many of the original features as possible, including<br />
the coastguard’s gun cabinet by the front door; these<br />
shores, after all, have long been a smuggler’s beat and<br />
the coastguards would often have had their work cut out<br />
dealing with looters in the aftermath of shipwrecks.<br />
Indeed, the entire area is one of dramatic extremes and<br />
stark contrasts; from the dunes and romantic white sands at<br />
Camber you are just a few minutes’ drive from the isolated<br />
weather-beaten bluff of Dungeness — which is not only one<br />
of the largest shingle landscapes in the world but one of the<br />
few nature reserves graced by a hulking power station (not to<br />
mention blessed with very fine fish and chips, at The Pilot).<br />
Inland, the 100 square miles of Romney Marsh — all big<br />
skies and brooding landscapes, embracing woodland, wetland,<br />
sand and shingle and thirteen beautiful medieval churches —<br />
is no less intensely atmospheric. This is, in short, a corner of<br />
the country that attracts escapists, from near and far, opening<br />
its arms to visitors now as easily as it once put up defences<br />
— nearby, there are numerous frontline relics of conflicts<br />
ranging from the Napoleonic wars to the Battle of Britain.<br />
Perhaps the most enduring metaphor for the contrasts of<br />
this fascinating area is the 28-mile Royal Military Canal which<br />
was built as a defence against Napoleon in the early 1800s,<br />
scything through the landscape from Hythe to Rye which,<br />
these days, is an important nature reserve for migratory birds.<br />
Though Marta fell in love with the romance of all this<br />
immediately — ‘it seemed to attract so many of my kind of<br />
people’ — her architect’s eye also meant that pretty should<br />
occasionally outweigh pragmatic. The empty house was<br />
in a desperately unloved state bordering on the derelict.<br />
“It had been vandalized and there was graffiti<br />
everywhere. The bathroom had been smashed to pieces<br />
and radiators pulled off the walls…” which would have<br />
been sufficient to put off most people. Luckily, Marta<br />
not only had a vision of what it could become but could<br />
see that the ‘bones’ of the building were strong.<br />
“There is a vernacular Victorian ‘coastguard’s<br />
cottage’ design you will find all over the country,<br />
as though there was a government blueprint.”<br />
All it would take to bring the house back to life, she<br />
surmised, would be… a total refurb and a lot of visual TLC.<br />
Having studied interior architecture at Kingston<br />
University, Marta founded her own successful practice<br />
in 2004, after a period in partnership at another firm<br />
and as a course leader in interior architecture at<br />
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This page: The house had been vandalised before Marta bought it, the bathroom smashed to pieces, so she had to put an entirely new<br />
one in. She panelled it with horizontal tongue and groove to make it feel warmer and put in a freestanding bath as that is what would<br />
have been there before<br />
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The cottage’s warm<br />
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This page: In the East facing double bedroom, Marta stripped<br />
off the old wallpaper and liked the distressed plaster beneath it so<br />
much she decided to keep it. She has had the 1950s wicker chair<br />
for many years. The French painter’s ladder was found at Wish<br />
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designing projects for Gavin Turk, Gillian Wearing and the<br />
contemporary art dealer Karsten Schubert, among others.<br />
Originally, at Jury’s Gap, there was no view from the<br />
single-storey ground floor kitchen extension in order to<br />
protect the building from the full force of the weather —<br />
that is, until Marta created a big picture window above the<br />
stainless-steel work surfaces, sink and the large range.<br />
“And there’s no extractor, though there probably<br />
‘should’ be,” she shrugs, smiling. However, this really isn’t<br />
a ‘should’ kind of house… “so we just open the door.”<br />
Next to the kitchen, Marta added a spacious wetroom<br />
and downstairs loo. The coastguards may not have<br />
bothered, however modern weekenders “want to be able<br />
to shower off the sand and the salt straight away.”<br />
Surprisingly, even on the day I visit — alluring skies<br />
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house is filled with light. You can easily imagine freerange<br />
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This page: Looking from the East facing bedroom onto the landing with the ladder steps going up to the attic bedroom<br />
and sea and… an MOD firing range (note to would-be<br />
guests: if the proximity of barbed wire and the occasional<br />
rat-a-tat of working firearms scares you more than it<br />
thrills you then this may not be your kind of place).<br />
The cottage’s central staircase leaves walls free for the<br />
windows and many of the rooms are double aspect.<br />
Even with the predominantly white palette, it’s still a<br />
surprisingly warm and welcoming space, even in winter.<br />
There are five spacious bedrooms which sleep eleven when<br />
the house is full, making it affordable for big groups of<br />
friends or families at a rate starting from £300 per night.<br />
Two of the bedrooms are on the lower ground floor<br />
and are, again, surprisingly light with, I note, windows<br />
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and out of very easily during games of hide-and-seek<br />
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This page: Marta created a new double bedroom<br />
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If, however, your idea of the perfect coast<br />
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Soap stars<br />
Josephine Fairley washes her hands of liquid soap in those<br />
environment-wrecking plastic bottles and goes back to the<br />
good old bar variety<br />
I’m all for life’s small pleasures. A delicious<br />
cappuccino, enjoyed while gazing at a beautiful<br />
view. Dancing around the kitchen, cooking dinner<br />
to a favourite Madeleine Peyroux album. Or a new<br />
bar of soap: fresh, fragrant, the beauty equivalent of<br />
a brand new notebook, or crisp clean sheets.<br />
And you know? I absolutely never take it for granted.<br />
A couple of decades ago I went to Romania with The<br />
Body Shop’s Anita Roddick, to visit the orphanages she<br />
was sponsoring. One night, we drove around the nearby<br />
villages giving away bars of soap from the back of a Body<br />
Shop truck – almost triggering a stampede, because<br />
it turned out: there’d been no soap in that part of the<br />
country for 10 whole years. Gulp.<br />
So I’m delighted that proper bar soap,<br />
eclipsed for virtually a generation by hand<br />
and body washes in pump-action plastic<br />
bottles, is making a comeback.<br />
Banho citron<br />
verbena soap £14<br />
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And those bottles are one<br />
of the main reasons I’m<br />
glad about this shift.<br />
Increasingly (thanks largely<br />
to David Attenborough…)<br />
we are all starting to think<br />
about the catastrophic<br />
environmental impact<br />
of single-use plastics -<br />
and the bottles which<br />
hand and body washes<br />
come in are some of<br />
the worst offenders.<br />
The components in<br />
them can feature<br />
several different<br />
types of plastic<br />
and sometimes a<br />
metal spring, as<br />
Chypre cedar<br />
poinsettia soap £14<br />
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“We are all starting<br />
to think about<br />
the catastrophic<br />
impact of singleuse<br />
plastic bottles”<br />
well, which<br />
makes them<br />
Luxury Soap<br />
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challenging to recycle. In landfill, these hard<br />
plastics will take thousands of years to break<br />
down, so switching to a product where the only<br />
packaging is a piece of paper or simple cardboard is a very<br />
simple step to take to cut down on plastic wastage in your life.<br />
Another reason to shift back to the kind of soap<br />
our grannies used – and which has been traced back<br />
as far as ancient Babylon 5000 years ago – is that it<br />
doesn’t contain any of the increasingly controversial<br />
ingredients which are found in the liquid kind.<br />
Liquid soaps contain sulfate foaming agents, triclosan and<br />
formaldehyde, all of which have been linked to health issues –<br />
too complex to go into here, but very much worth Googling.<br />
And I have another personal reason for<br />
loving old-fashioned bars of beautifully<br />
fragrant soap: I like to store them in drawers<br />
where they make my underwear, knits and<br />
bed linen smell pretty. Another advantage<br />
of this is that if you keep them for a while<br />
they harden off and will last longer, rather<br />
than turning to pulp in your soap dish.<br />
Which is something you may need<br />
to invest in again – or possibly for the first time – if<br />
you’ve been using liquid soap. I like to hunt out pieces<br />
of vintage china and moulded glass to keep my soap in,<br />
but I’ve noticed Zara Home do particularly good soap<br />
dishes, a nice new accessory for your bathroom.<br />
There are countless fabulous soaps, out there, but I<br />
thought I’d share my favourites. So if you’re in the mood<br />
for a new bar, after this, get in a lather over these.<br />
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(littlesoapcompany.co.uk). Little Soap Company create<br />
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some artisan hand-made soaps go squishy very quickly,<br />
but Little Soap Company’s are more resilient.)<br />
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Beauty<br />
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of cedarwood), zesty citrusverbena<br />
Banho, or – when<br />
I can find it – the powdery,<br />
violet-scented Fox Trot.<br />
Liberty carries a wide selection,<br />
including some amazing gift sets.<br />
Fragonard Le Jardin de Fragonard Perle<br />
de Thé Soap, £7.95 (Marks & Spencer<br />
beauty departments and on-line). I’m<br />
crazy in love with Fragonard soaps,<br />
Claus Porto Soaps, from around<br />
£15. These are fabulously packaged,<br />
with eye-catching vintage designs<br />
– and smell equally ravishing.<br />
They’re made in Porto, the<br />
Claus is actually the name of the<br />
German founders, who started<br />
the company in 1887. There are<br />
dozens of soaps in the range, any<br />
of which I’d gladly receive as a gift,<br />
but if pushed to choose favourites,<br />
I’ll opt for Chypre, (a stunningly<br />
sophisticated fragrance, with whispers<br />
which you can watch being made,<br />
if you visit the classic perfume<br />
house’s museum, in Grasse. The<br />
soaps look like porcelain treasures,<br />
embossed with different designs,<br />
in this case, an Indian-inspired<br />
Paisley design on a soap that’s gloriously<br />
jasmine-scented. They do another range<br />
that you can only buy in their stores (I<br />
always stock up in Paris), which look<br />
like exquisite cameos. Great gifts, these.<br />
Chanel No.5 The Bath Soap, £22.<br />
What can I say? The ultimate luxury. My<br />
bar of this scented my underwear gloriously for<br />
Le Jardin de<br />
Fragonard Perle de<br />
Thé Soap £7.95<br />
Fragonard<br />
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com<br />
months before I finally began to use it; the trail of Chanel<br />
No.5 that it leaves on the skin is really quite impressive.<br />
Bamford Mini Pebble Soap Set, £32. A fab gift (um, to<br />
yourself?), this brings together all three soaps from the<br />
Oxfordshire-based natural beauty brand of which I’m<br />
becoming an ever-more-ardent fan. The scents are rose,<br />
geranium and jasmine, and the very pleasing, hand-friendly<br />
shape is taken from a heart-shaped pebble found on the beach.<br />
L’Occitane Bonne Mère Honey Soap,<br />
Natural olive<br />
oil bar soap, £2.95<br />
Little Soap Company<br />
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co.uk<br />
£5.50. Many of<br />
L’Occitane’s divine soaps<br />
are made using the<br />
traditional Marseilles<br />
soap method. For a swoon, check out<br />
mega-<br />
the<br />
soaps in their new Regent<br />
Street flagship store. A mustvisit<br />
destination for your next beauty pilgrimage<br />
to London – although this particular choice<br />
is a web-only option, fabulously scented with<br />
honey, which also has a skin-softening action.<br />
Soap Co. Geranium & Rhubarb, £9. Last<br />
autumn I visited the Soap<br />
Co. factory in Walthamstow,<br />
and have been giving their products to<br />
friends ever since. Soap Co. is a new<br />
and very chic venture within a longestablished<br />
charity project offering<br />
employment to blind and otherwise<br />
disabled people and those with mental<br />
health challenges. It’s as heart-warming<br />
as beauty gets, frankly, but the reasons to<br />
buy their soaps (and the rest of the range)<br />
go beyond philanthropy; the range offers<br />
great smells and textures. Here, a coldpressed<br />
soap hand-made from olive oil,<br />
organic cocoa butter, borage and calendula,<br />
and with the loveliest of fragrances.<br />
Floris Luxury Soap Collection, £40.<br />
The soap-lover’s ultimate dream: a beribboned<br />
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long-established Jermyn Street perfumery’s<br />
most-loved soaps, including White Rose,<br />
Stephanotis, citrusy Cefiro, Lily of the Valley,<br />
Edwardian Bouquet and Rose Geranium – a<br />
movingly nostalgic fragrance, for me, as it was<br />
the scent of my father’s shaving soap, and one which has<br />
been known to make me cry. Yup, that. From a soap.<br />
For daily health and beauty updates from Josephine Fairley,<br />
visit beautybible.com and for all the latest in the fabulous<br />
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“Another reason to shift<br />
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grannies used is that it doesn’t<br />
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controversial ingredients<br />
found in the liquid kind”<br />
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What kind of laser do you use? We use the Lynton<br />
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If you find before and after weight loss pictures<br />
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But while the aesthetic side of things is great, what’s<br />
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The medically supervised weight loss system is based<br />
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Hannah Betts - Practice Manager and Aesthetics<br />
Therapist<br />
What is the nicest things clients say to you after<br />
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What would you say was the most common amount<br />
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Are there any other therapies you suggest having to<br />
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Wellbeing<br />
A Year of Wellness<br />
The last thing our bodies need when it’s still cool and damp is a<br />
brutal detox with raw food that is hard to digest, much better work in<br />
harmony with your body and the season says<br />
Eminé Rushton<br />
<strong>April</strong>: A gentle cleanse<br />
Detoxes are big business. Pills,<br />
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their bodies and shifting weight, while<br />
clearing skin and boosting energy levels<br />
in the process.<br />
As a holistic therapist and student<br />
of Ayurveda, I don’t believe that any<br />
one of us needs to actively detox. We’re<br />
in possession of some hugely effective<br />
in-built detoxification organs and<br />
mechanisms, from our small intestine<br />
and liver, to our kidneys and<br />
skin and what best benefits<br />
our bodies (and minds and<br />
spirits while we’re at it), is<br />
a gentle, seasonal, bodysupporting<br />
cleanse.<br />
As spring arrives many<br />
of us feel the shift quite<br />
naturally, as the mood<br />
lightens, the body feels more vital<br />
and the urge for fresh, vibrant green<br />
foods takes hold. This is the ideal<br />
time to work with your body, to help<br />
clear winter’s ‘leftovers’.<br />
In Ayurvedic terms, there is often a<br />
build up of damp, cold energy in the<br />
body after winter and it is helpful to get<br />
things moving, before the spring cough<br />
and cold can take hold (which is simply<br />
nature’s way of getting excess mucous<br />
out of the system).<br />
I begin with Weleda Birch Juice,<br />
£10.95 (weleda.co.uk), an allnatural<br />
age-old tonic that<br />
supports the body’s inbuilt<br />
cleansing processes, taking<br />
it with warm water, in the<br />
morning.<br />
Dry body<br />
“Steer away<br />
from raw juice<br />
and foods until<br />
the weather is<br />
properly warm”<br />
brushing is also very helpful at getting<br />
the lymph moving, flushing out any<br />
small pockets of toxicity, which can<br />
build up in the adipose tissue. Begin<br />
with the soles of the feet, then work up<br />
the calves, thighs and buttocks before<br />
going down the arms, back and gently<br />
over the chest and tummy.<br />
A generous dousing of oil on the skin<br />
should follow. In Ayurveda, organic<br />
sesame oil is considered wonderful for<br />
heating a system, while organic coldpressed<br />
sunflower oil is good for all body<br />
types and conditions. Massage in well.<br />
Given that spring<br />
in England is still cool<br />
(and often wet), make<br />
daily food decisions that<br />
support the body, based<br />
upon the weather, mood<br />
and appetite – and steer<br />
away from raw juice and<br />
foods until the weather<br />
is properly warm. It takes a fair bit<br />
of digestive energy to break down<br />
uncooked roughage and fibre and if<br />
the immune system is flagging, you can<br />
actually deplete yourself further.<br />
Cold mornings are amply warmed<br />
with steaming porridge, served with<br />
seasonal stewed fruit and cinnamon.<br />
Cook some linseed into the oatmeal to<br />
get the bowels spring-cleaned<br />
too. Warmer days can support<br />
raw, live yoghurt eaten at room<br />
temperature, delicious with<br />
homemade granola.<br />
If it’s cold outside, cook up<br />
the season’s first spring greens<br />
with cinnamon, ginger and<br />
garlic for stews and warm<br />
salads, or whizz into a soup<br />
that will warm up the innards.<br />
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and<br />
co-founder of the conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk<br />
As our bodies start<br />
to shift into spring, it’s<br />
also important to support<br />
the process with at least eight glasses of<br />
warm, filtered water daily. Herbal teas<br />
count toward your intake. Naturally<br />
detoxifying nettle, burdock, elderflower<br />
and fennel, are just the ticket.<br />
And fennel being perfectly in season<br />
in spring, is also an ideal cleansing<br />
veg. Try baking it with fish, for lunch<br />
or dinner, too. Great spring herbs<br />
that support the inner cleanse include<br />
chervil, tarragon, rosemary and mint.<br />
Bake, cook, garnish with them and<br />
you’re getting extra flavour, with<br />
antioxidants to boot.<br />
And no spring awakening would be<br />
complete without a thought for the<br />
quality of our breath. Lungs can take<br />
a bit of a battering over winter, with<br />
perpetual central heating <strong>inside</strong>, and<br />
gale-force winds out, so work to open<br />
them up with breath-led yoga. And<br />
in this glorious season of renewal, just<br />
get outside a bit more, for brisk walks<br />
and gentle jogs, through parks and<br />
woodland.<br />
Feed your soul<br />
In Grow, Cook, Nourish bestselling cookbook<br />
author and legendary cook Darina Alllen draws<br />
on more than 30 years’ experience gardening<br />
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inventively and excitingly with home-grown<br />
produce – great if you have a<br />
glut. With over 500 recipes, this<br />
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An instant classic. Grow, Cook,<br />
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Life, at times, can be overwhelming.<br />
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“I’m amazed by how many people have<br />
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“Considering our brain is one of the most<br />
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Using a powerful combination of Solution-<br />
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“SFBT as a type of modern psychotherapy<br />
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English<br />
garden<br />
Vegetable gardener and cook at Great Dixter,<br />
Aaron Bertelsen has written a cookbook which<br />
celebrates the link between the plot and kitchen<br />
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Words: Aaron Bertelsen Photographs: Andrew Montgomery
Food<br />
Beet top and feta tart<br />
Serves 8 Prep time: 15. Cooking time: 50-60 mins<br />
Beetroot tops are often ready in the spring before the spinach<br />
and chard, which is what gave me the inspiration for this tart.<br />
They have a nutty, earthy flavour and are also good eaten on<br />
their own as a steamed or boiled vegetable. I love this tart so<br />
much that I cook and freeze the leaves for use all year.<br />
Rhubarb tart<br />
Serves 8 Prep time: 15 mins plus chilling Cooking time: 45-50 mins<br />
Spring rhubarb is wonderfully pink and tender, so you can<br />
dispense with the poaching step and put it straight into a pastry<br />
case, with a little brown sugar before putting it in the oven. The<br />
sugar caramelizes to give an almost toffee-like flavour. Eat hot or<br />
cold. Either way, it goes well with cream, custard or ice-cream.<br />
• Oil or butter, for greasing<br />
• 1 quantity chilled<br />
shortcrust pastry<br />
• flour, for dusting<br />
• beet tops (greens) from<br />
8 plants, rinsed and<br />
chopped<br />
• 175 g/6 oz feta cheese,<br />
diced or crumbled<br />
• 300 ml/10 oz<br />
(1¼ cups) crème fraîche<br />
• 3 eggs<br />
• 100 ml/3½ fl oz<br />
(scant ½ cup) milk<br />
• salt and pepper<br />
1Preheat the oven to<br />
180°C/350°F/Gas Mark<br />
4, placing an oven rack in<br />
the lower part of it. Grease<br />
a 30-cm/12-inch loosebottom<br />
tart pan. Roll out<br />
the pastry (dough) on a<br />
lightly floured work surface<br />
until it is large enough to<br />
line your tart pan.<br />
Put the beet tops<br />
2 (greens) into a pan with<br />
just the water that clings to<br />
them after washing. Cover<br />
with a lid, cook over low<br />
heat for about 5 minutes<br />
until wilted. Let cool, then<br />
drain and spread over the<br />
bottom of the pastry case<br />
(shell). Sprinkle with the<br />
feta.<br />
3Put the crème fraîche,<br />
eggs and milk into a<br />
bowl and beat together.<br />
Pour this mixture into the<br />
pastry case and season with<br />
salt and pepper. Place on a<br />
baking sheet and bake for<br />
40–45 minutes until just set.<br />
Take the tart out of the<br />
4 oven and carefully slip<br />
off the outer ring, leaving<br />
the tart sitting on the base.<br />
Return to the oven on<br />
5 the baking sheet for<br />
another 5–10 minutes so<br />
that the sides get really crisp.<br />
• Butter, for greasing<br />
• 1 quantity chilled sweet<br />
shortcrust pastry<br />
• flour, for dusting<br />
• 1 kg/2¼ lb rhubarb,<br />
chopped into 5-cm/2-inch<br />
pieces<br />
• 2 tablespoons demerara<br />
(turbinado) sugar<br />
• 120 g/4 oz (½ cup) caster<br />
sugar, plus extra for<br />
sprinkling (optional)<br />
1Preheat the oven to<br />
190°C/375°F/Gas Mark<br />
5, placing an oven rack in<br />
the lower part of it. Butter a<br />
25-cm/10-inch loose-bottom<br />
tart pan.<br />
2Roll out the pastry<br />
(dough) thinly on a<br />
lightly floured work surface<br />
and use to line the prepared<br />
pan. If using spring rhubarb,<br />
arrange it in the pastry case<br />
(shell) and sprinkle with the<br />
demerara (turbinado) sugar.<br />
If not using spring rhubarb,<br />
put the caster (superfine)<br />
sugar and 200 ml/<br />
7 fl oz (¾ cup) water into<br />
a pan and stir together over<br />
medium heat until the sugar<br />
dissolves. Bring to a gentle<br />
boil, then add the chopped<br />
rhubarb and simmer for 1<br />
minute – you don’t<br />
want it to lose its shape.<br />
Drain the rhubarb, then<br />
arrange <strong>inside</strong> the pastry case.<br />
3Place the filled case on<br />
a baking sheet and bake<br />
on a low oven rack for 40<br />
minutes. Take the tart out of<br />
the oven and carefully slip<br />
off the outer ring, leaving the<br />
tart sitting on the base.<br />
4Return to the oven on the<br />
baking sheet for another<br />
5–10 minutes so that the sides<br />
get really crisp.<br />
Slide the tart onto a plate and<br />
sprinkle with caster sugar,<br />
if desired. Let cool to room<br />
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Frozen pea and mint pesto<br />
Makes 3 small jars Prep time: 10 mins. Cooking time: 5 mins<br />
An excellent item for your storecupboard (pantry), pesto is great<br />
for using up gluts of produce. This recipe is perfect<br />
for using up any forgotten peas in the freezer, and it is a real<br />
taste of summer, which I hanker for in the winter. It is<br />
delicious with pasta, adding a real depth of flavour.<br />
• 250 g/9 oz (about 2 cups)<br />
shelled fresh or frozen<br />
peas (about 900 g/2 lb in<br />
their pods)<br />
• 2 fat cloves garlic, finely<br />
chopped<br />
• 50 g/2 oz (about ⅓ cup)<br />
pine nuts, toasted<br />
• 50 g/2 oz Parmesan<br />
cheese, chopped into<br />
small chunks<br />
• good handful mint leaves<br />
• 6 tablespoons extra virgin<br />
olive oil<br />
1Cook the peas in a pan<br />
of boiling water for 2–3<br />
minutes, until just tender, then<br />
drain and refresh in cold water.<br />
Drain again and pat dry.<br />
2Tip the peas into a blender<br />
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the remaining ingredients.<br />
Pulse very briefly, until<br />
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Don’t overdo it – the mixture<br />
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Food<br />
Beetroot chutney<br />
Makes 5kg/11lb Prep time: 30mins. Cooking time: 1 ¼ hours<br />
Chutney is a great way of using up gluts of produce – we often<br />
have lots of beetroot in the garden at Great Dixter. This recipe<br />
is courtesy of Mary Coward, mother of Tom Coward, head<br />
gardener at Gravetye Manor.<br />
• 1 kg/2¼ lb Bramley<br />
(Cortland or Granny<br />
Smith) apples, peeled,<br />
cored and sliced weight<br />
• 2 kg/4½ lb raw beetroot<br />
(beet), peeled and<br />
roughly chopped<br />
• 1 kg/2¼ lb (about 6<br />
cups) soft light brown<br />
sugar<br />
• 450 g/1 lb (3 cups)<br />
sultanas or golden raisins<br />
• 3½ tablespoons salt<br />
• 1 tablespoon ground<br />
ginger<br />
• 1 small onion, finely<br />
chopped<br />
• 500 ml/18 fl oz (2 cups)<br />
malt vinegar<br />
1Put the apples into a<br />
heavy pan with a little<br />
water, cover and<br />
cook gently for about 10<br />
minutes until soft but not<br />
mushy.<br />
2Add all the remaining<br />
ingredients to the pan<br />
and boil for 1 hour or more,<br />
until the mixture thickens<br />
and erupts in small craters,<br />
like lava in a volcano.<br />
Spoon into warm,<br />
3 sterilized jars, cover with<br />
a double layer<br />
of greaseproof (wax) paper,<br />
then seal tightly, label and<br />
date.<br />
The chutney can be eaten<br />
immediately, although I<br />
think it’s best stored in a<br />
cool place and enjoyed after<br />
a year.<br />
Pickled pears<br />
Makes 3 x 450g/1lb jars Prep time: 15mins. Cooking time: 20mins<br />
It was my friend Tom Coward, head gardener at Gravetye<br />
Manor, who first introduced me to this lovely preserve. There<br />
are lots of recipes for pickled pears, but some take up to a week<br />
to prepare. This version can be made in an evening, and I have<br />
found the results to be just as good, though they are best left for<br />
a month before eating so that the flavours can really penetrate the<br />
fruit. Use pears that still have some bite, but not so much that<br />
you cannot get your teeth into them, and make sure you reduce<br />
the liquid well to intensify the flavour. The pears go really well<br />
with blue cheese.<br />
• 900 g/2lb pears, peeled,<br />
cored and sliced<br />
• 425 ml/14½ fl oz (1¾<br />
cups) apple cider vinegar<br />
• 450 g/1 lb (2 cups) caster<br />
sugar<br />
• 1 cinnamon stick<br />
• 10 cloves<br />
• thumb-size piece of stem<br />
ginger, sliced<br />
1Put all the ingredients into<br />
a pan with 850 ml/1½<br />
pints (3½ cups) water and<br />
cook slowly until the pears<br />
start to soften, but only just<br />
(about 10 minutes). You want<br />
them to retain a bit of bite.<br />
Using a slotted spoon, transfer<br />
the pears to a colander and set<br />
aside to drain.<br />
2Meanwhile, increase the<br />
heat under the syrup left<br />
in the pan and boil rapidly<br />
for 15 minutes, or until it has<br />
reduced by about a third and<br />
thickened slightly.<br />
3Pack the fruit into warm,<br />
sterilized jars and pour in<br />
enough hot syrup to cover.<br />
Seal immediately and store for<br />
a month before eating. <br />
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Cooking time: 2 ½ hours<br />
This is my grandmother’s recipe, so very special to me. The cake<br />
is intensely fruity and moist. I sometimes make it in the evening,<br />
turning the oven off after two and a half hours and leaving it in<br />
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• 1 kg/2¼ lb (10 cups)<br />
mixed dried fruit, plus an<br />
extra 50 g/2 oz<br />
• (½ cup) each of sultanas<br />
or golden raisins and<br />
currants<br />
• 12 pitted prunes, chopped<br />
• 1 x 400-g/14-oz can<br />
sweetened condensed milk<br />
• 225 g/8 oz (2 sticks)<br />
butter<br />
• 1 tablespoon black treacle<br />
Nana’s fruit cake<br />
(molasses)<br />
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup<br />
or corn syrup<br />
• dash vanilla extract<br />
• dash brandy<br />
• 350 ml/12 fl oz (1½ cups)<br />
water<br />
• 50 g/2 oz (½ cup) flaked<br />
(slivered) almonds<br />
• 1 slightly heaped teaspoon<br />
bicarbonate of soda<br />
(baking soda)<br />
• 1 teaspoon mixed<br />
(apple pie) spice<br />
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg<br />
• 300 g/11 oz<br />
(scant 2½ cups) plain<br />
(all-purpose) flour<br />
• 1 slightly heaped teaspoon<br />
baking powder<br />
1Preheat the oven to<br />
140°C/275°F/Gas Mark 1.<br />
Line a 23-cm/ 9-inch square<br />
cake pan with parchment<br />
(baking) paper. Put the dried<br />
fruit, prunes, condensed milk,<br />
butter, treacle (molasses),<br />
syrup, vanilla and brandy<br />
into a pan. Add the water<br />
and bring to a simmer for 5<br />
minutes.<br />
2Let cool slightly before<br />
stirring in the almonds,<br />
bicarbonate<br />
of soda (baking soda) and<br />
spices. Finally, incorporate<br />
the flour and baking powder<br />
a bit at a time, stirring well<br />
between each addition.<br />
3Pour the mixture into the<br />
prepared pan and bake<br />
for 2½ hours. Turn off the<br />
oven and leave the cake in<br />
there to settle – I usually do<br />
this overnight. The<br />
following day, turn<br />
it out and store it<br />
as described in the<br />
introduction.<br />
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In full bloom<br />
Jennifer<br />
Stuart-Smith of<br />
Blooming Green shares her<br />
expert knowledge on how<br />
to start your own cutting<br />
garden and fill your house<br />
with flowers<br />
Nothing gives a house a lift like<br />
vases of fresh flowers – there’s<br />
a reason interiors stylists<br />
always arrive at shoots with armloads<br />
of them – but until quite recently<br />
most people only had cut flowers as an<br />
occasional treat on special occasions,<br />
or if in the summer months, they had<br />
a garden from which they could snip a<br />
few blooms without spoiling the display.<br />
Dedicated cutting gardens for a<br />
constant source of fresh flowers were<br />
mostly the preserve of stately homes,<br />
with walled gardens, a team of gardeners<br />
to tend the banks of peonies and<br />
housekeepers to trim and arrange them.<br />
Things have changed now that<br />
supermarkets stock banks of very cheap<br />
cut flowers – but the almost painfully<br />
bright colours of them and how<br />
unnaturally long they last gives a hint<br />
of how they are produced and gradually,<br />
people have become more aware of<br />
where their flowers come from.<br />
With that understanding, rather<br />
like the organic produce and veg<br />
box schemes, people are now more<br />
appreciative of seasonality, variety and,<br />
in the case of flowers, scent. People<br />
drive miles to pick their own flowers<br />
at our cutting gardens in Kent and our<br />
wedding customers in particular, go<br />
wild for the ‘just picked’ wild-flower<br />
look.<br />
The idea for setting up our business<br />
came about well over a decade ago,<br />
when I was working on a newspaper<br />
and kept on seeing articles about the<br />
unpleasant side of the global floristry<br />
industry; poor working conditions, the<br />
use of unpleasant chemicals and masses<br />
of plastic packaging.<br />
My cousin Rebekah,<br />
who has a background in<br />
environmental biology<br />
and horticulture, was<br />
considering new avenues<br />
alongside raising a family,<br />
so together we hatched the<br />
idea of setting up an ecofriendly<br />
‘green’ floristry business.<br />
Our flowers are grown on two sites,<br />
in the countryside south of Maidstone,<br />
on what were once orchards. We grow<br />
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“You don’t have<br />
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them using an organic ‘no-dig’ method<br />
that improves productivity, soil health<br />
and saves our backs too.<br />
But you don’t have to have a field, or<br />
even a large garden to grow your own<br />
cutting flowers. By planning ahead,<br />
choosing your plants carefully and using<br />
every bit of available space you can have<br />
a steady supply of blooms for the house,<br />
or for friends, in spring, summer and<br />
autumn.<br />
And once you get into having – truly<br />
– fresh flowers and foliage<br />
in your home, it can<br />
be hard to live without<br />
them, and even in winter<br />
you can find interesting<br />
things in the hedgerow<br />
or cut stems of winterflowering<br />
shrubs such as<br />
forsythia.<br />
When it comes to deciding where<br />
to plant your cutting flowers, there are<br />
many options. You don’t even need a<br />
dedicated cutting patch – simply dot<br />
plants in your herbaceous borders, plant<br />
them amongst your vegetables, potagerstyle,<br />
or grow some in containers<br />
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Finding great varieties of cut flowers<br />
to grow is also easier these days, as seed<br />
merchants, nurseries and garden centres<br />
have cottoned on to the demand for<br />
home-grown flowers and have developed<br />
wonderful new varieties, perfect for<br />
cutting.<br />
Always check labels and descriptions<br />
for the ‘scissors symbol’ or any reference<br />
to stem length and suitability for<br />
cutting. In order to have a good variety<br />
of blooms and foliage, it’s a good idea<br />
to plant a mixture of annuals (seed to<br />
flower in one year), biennials (seed to<br />
leaves in the first year, then to flowers in<br />
the second), herbaceous perennials (grow<br />
and flower for more than two years) and<br />
shrubs (perennials with woody, rather<br />
than sappy stems).<br />
To get you started here are a few of<br />
our favourite cutting flowers arranged,<br />
roughly, by when they are ready for<br />
cutting – although this will of course<br />
depend on factors such as when you sow<br />
and what the weather chooses to do.<br />
Sweet rocket Frothy sweetly scented<br />
flowers in purple or white or pale pink<br />
when there is not much else around<br />
(May/June). Biennial (flowers in its<br />
second year)<br />
Sweet William Clusters of flowers<br />
smelling lovely in a range from white<br />
pink and red and purple an absolute<br />
classic. Flower June-September. Biennial<br />
Ammi visnaga A white cow-parsleylike<br />
flower, that’s great as a filler and<br />
more robust than its cousin Ammi<br />
majus. Flowers June-September. <br />
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Hardy annual easy to grow from seed<br />
and readily self-seeds.<br />
Mint A great foliage and also a<br />
wonderful flower in purple or white<br />
which insects go crazy over. Flowers<br />
throughout the summer, though we<br />
tend to use it for foliage. Just the job<br />
for Pimms. Perennial which spreads<br />
by roots; will go mad left to its own<br />
devices.<br />
Dill Big umbels of lime green flowers,<br />
edible, great for bees and an awesome<br />
filler. Hardy annual, easy to grow from<br />
seed and self-seeds readily. Use the seed<br />
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autumn.<br />
Cosmos Large flowers from red to<br />
pink and white, can grow lovely and<br />
big. Blooms from June, all summer.<br />
Half-hardy annual very easy to grow<br />
from seed.<br />
Achillea Small plates of tiny<br />
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September. Very dreamy and meadowlike.<br />
Short-lived perennial really easy<br />
to grow from seed.<br />
Sunflower (Soraya or Valentine)<br />
These sunflowers produce many<br />
heads and are great for cutting. Soraya<br />
is orange yellow and Valentine is a<br />
delicate pale lemon, flowering from<br />
midsummer to autumn. Half-hardy<br />
annual.<br />
Agastache Spikes of flowers in<br />
white, blue pink and orange. Smells<br />
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foliage are edible. Perennial, easy to<br />
grow from seed and flowers from July<br />
to September.<br />
Verbena bonariensis Small clusters<br />
of luminous purple flowers are held<br />
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It’s the moment Jo Arnell has been waiting for since<br />
October – time to get going in the veggie patch<br />
It’s all about to take off in the vegetable garden and the<br />
first of the summer harvests are just around the corner.<br />
The weather and soil are warming, the light has come<br />
back and the garden is properly waking up. <strong>April</strong> is the<br />
perfect month for sowing quick to mature crops that will<br />
be ready in a few weeks time and also for starting off tender<br />
crops under cover to plant out when the frosts have gone.<br />
Some of us have been waiting since October for this<br />
moment.That same some of us (we know who we are) have<br />
also, in previous years, ended up with an enormous glut of<br />
crops; either too much of one thing, or a single glorious<br />
harvest of everything in late summer - and nothing before or<br />
after. The beginning of the season is an exciting place to be,<br />
but it is just the beginning and we must plan before we plant<br />
- and keep our cool.<br />
Direct sowing<br />
You can tell when it’s time to start sowing crops directly<br />
outside if you look at a patch of bare earth in the garden.<br />
Tiny weedlings will be popping up, eager to conquer the<br />
world. Weeds have learned to be cunning and are always<br />
ahead of our pampered plants, but we can use them as coal<br />
miners once used canaries, as a sign that it’s safe to sow some<br />
seeds of our own.<br />
In newly cultivated soil you will often see a great rash of<br />
weeds appear, brought up to the surface through cultivation -<br />
and mingling disastrously with precious seedlings. It is worth<br />
preparing the soil a few weeks before you sow; then you can<br />
hoe off the weedlings prior to sowing or planting the crops.<br />
Sow in rows, because this makes it easier to spot your crop<br />
when it emerges - weeds are wayward outlaws and don’t care<br />
for straight lines. You can avoid most of the direct sowing<br />
pitfalls by growing crops in pots and planting them out once<br />
they’ve grown a few leaves. You can buy them at this stage<br />
too. It is not cheating, but it does mean you don’t get a huge<br />
choice of cultivar.<br />
Some like it hot<br />
Vegetables like French and runner beans, courgettes,<br />
tomatoes, squash and sweetcorn are not frost hardy, so cannot<br />
be safely grown outside until at least the middle of May. The<br />
problem is that in order to get a reliable harvest, many of<br />
them need to be started off before this. Sow seeds under cover<br />
- on a window sill or in a greenhouse and then gradually<br />
harden them off before planting outside.<br />
These crops (like some of us) need lots of hot summer days<br />
for best results, so find a warm sheltered place for them. They<br />
can be thirsty too, especially those that form fruits or juicy<br />
pods, so they may need extra watering if the weather does<br />
become hot and dry.<br />
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My soil dries out quickly, so I usually dig something called<br />
a ‘bean trench’, which involves making a trench in the bed<br />
about 50-70cm deep and filling it with a combination of<br />
kitchen waste and compost. You can use anything organic<br />
that will help to hold in the moisture; I have used newspaper,<br />
cardboard, old woollen jumpers, even an old hat. Then pile<br />
on some soil and plant the crop. The compost layer will act<br />
as a reservoir later in the season and keep the roots cool and<br />
damp in dry weather.<br />
Some like it cooler<br />
A few vegetables respond to warmer weather by getting<br />
overexcited and running to seed almost as soon as you’ve sown<br />
them. These cool weather crops do not like hot dry weather,<br />
so grow things like spinach, rocket, coriander and oriental<br />
greens in early spring or late summer and avoid growing them<br />
at the height of the summer.<br />
The quickest summer harvests<br />
If you are impatient to see results, there are vegetables that<br />
will spring into action and be ready for harvest in as little<br />
as 3-4 weeks. The fastest maturing crops are probably leafy<br />
salads; look for seed packets of ‘speedy’ salad mixes. Radishes<br />
are also quick to grow, and kohlrabi is also speedy. There are<br />
other leafy crops, like rocket (the name gives a clue), some<br />
mustards, spinach and oriental greens. Be careful when you<br />
sow these, though, as they are prone to bolting (running to<br />
seed and turning bitter).<br />
Keep on cropping<br />
Growing in succession is the ideal way to avoid a glut, but it<br />
doesn’t work with all vegetables. The idea is to sow a small<br />
quantity at regular intervals, ensuring that you spread the<br />
harvest. I have done this successfully with peas, French beans,<br />
salads such as loose leaved lettuce and rocket and other fast<br />
growing vegetables. The problem comes when the weather<br />
starts to warm up and speeds up the rate of growth, so that<br />
later sown crops quickly catch up with the earlier ones.<br />
Spave-saving summer crops<br />
Even if your plot is tiny there are ways of growing crops -<br />
climbing plants like beans and small pumpkins make use of<br />
the vertical growing area (i.e. the sky) and there are dwarf,<br />
but bountiful versions of many crops that can be grown in<br />
containers or squeezed into corners.<br />
I have talked before about growing three different<br />
vegetables together in one space; the ancient native Indian<br />
technique called the three sisters involves squash, climbing<br />
beans and sweetcorn all grown together and using each other<br />
for support and nutrients.<br />
Beans climb the sweetcorn and feed the soil with nitrogen,<br />
sprawling squash plants provide shade and suppress weeds,<br />
but (as often happens when three sisters are grown together)<br />
the result can be a bit chaotic.<br />
Too much of a good thing<br />
Even if courgettes are the mainstay of your diet, I promise<br />
that you will only need two plants. You may only need one,<br />
but for pollination purposes it will help to have more than<br />
one plant. Do not plant a whole row.<br />
Fortunately, there are 101 delicious recipes for courgettes,<br />
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Permanent crops<br />
If you have a dedicated place to grow your vegetables, then<br />
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The mad spring rush is hard to resist, but with just a little<br />
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to make one row of salad last a whole summer.<br />
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Chick, chick, chick,<br />
chick, chicken…<br />
They wreck the lawn, eat freshly planted bulbs and hardly ever lay an egg, but<br />
Martin Gurdon couldn’t be without his hens (and one psychotic duck)<br />
We were living in a clapboard cottage in Frittenden<br />
with a long, narrow garden and we thought a flock<br />
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they did, until they turned the lawn into a desert.<br />
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Gentle reader, if sparrow dung can leave its unwanted mark<br />
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Woodchurch with a bigger garden that has a sort<br />
of lattice Berlin Wall so that our current flock is<br />
unable to trash my wife Jane’s flowerbeds. This<br />
doesn’t stop them trying.<br />
If I leave the gate open for a moment there<br />
will be an avian raiding party, and I’ll see a<br />
trio of rapidly receding feathery bottoms as<br />
their owners make an ungainly charge for the<br />
promised land of milk, honey and flower bulbs.<br />
The birds in question are called Slasher, Priscilla and<br />
Hadron. Slasher might lay three eggs every other year and<br />
is in charge of everybody else. She’s an Araucana; neat, fleet<br />
footed, with a floppy red comb and luxuriant tail feathers.<br />
She’s also ten years old – which is ancient for a chicken – and<br />
recently suffered a suspected stroke. I found her lying outside<br />
the hutch with a back to front head and unable to stand.<br />
Two days R&R in a cage in my home office soon had her<br />
mobile, and other than holding her head at a slightly quizzical<br />
angle you’d never know there had been a problem. My wife,<br />
Slasher<br />
“Priscilla is a<br />
gentle, lumbering<br />
serial parent<br />
with a basso<br />
profundo cluck”<br />
Wonky & Hestletina<br />
who did not welcome our stinky houseguest, has conceded<br />
that in animal husbandry terms, the pong was worthwhile.<br />
Hadron is a heavy chicken who is remarkably light on her<br />
feet and oddly elegant. Think Dawn French with feathers.<br />
Priscilla is a gentle, lumbering serial parent with a basso<br />
profundo cluck, who has brought up several generations of<br />
chickens and ducks, as our garden is also graced with a small<br />
flock of Indian Runner ducks.<br />
These include a drake called Bombay, who is as old as<br />
Slasher and has some rheumatic issues. These have meant<br />
making senior duck mobility aids to assist egress from the<br />
pond. In his younger days (think last year) the<br />
summer months would see Bombay develop<br />
unhealthy and rather confused lusts for one of<br />
the chickens, if it happened to be blond.<br />
Priscilla is light brown, but that hasn’t<br />
deterred Bombay from chasing her, so at this<br />
time of year we keep them separate. When<br />
we didn’t, Bombay dragged one of Priscilla’s<br />
predecessors into the pond for reasons that<br />
we won’t go into, and it was fortunate that I heard the<br />
commotion and hauled the poor bird out.<br />
You might be asking why we put up with this stuff. Well,<br />
we do get eggs, sometimes, but the chicken breeds we favour<br />
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until their dotage.<br />
However, the answer is simple. Entertainment. Our<br />
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never less than watchable, or giving us their full attention. We<br />
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a penetrating stare when she felt<br />
it was time to be fed.<br />
Our birds aren’t great<br />
intellectuals, but they are great<br />
personalities who are variously<br />
controlling, comic, passionate<br />
and inquisitive. They’ve caused<br />
expensive trips to the vet and<br />
the garden centre, but I can<br />
honestly say that I’ve never met<br />
a chicken I didn’t like.<br />
Martin<br />
is author of<br />
Hen & The<br />
Art of Chicken<br />
Maintenance (Fox<br />
Chapel), a book<br />
about sex, death<br />
and living with<br />
domestic<br />
fowl.<br />
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Be inspired by the speakers at the Wealden Times Midsummer Fair<br />
The Wealden Times Midsummer Fair is a gardener’s<br />
delight with stalls offering plants, outdoor furniture<br />
and statuary to enhance your patch – and added to this<br />
we have some brilliant speakers to inspire your horticultural<br />
ambitions appearing at the <strong>Garden</strong> Hub sponsored by<br />
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Tim Bentinck<br />
Jo Arnell<br />
Tim Bentinck<br />
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet David Archer – yes, that David<br />
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Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living.<br />
Jo Arnell<br />
You read her every month – now come and meet our<br />
wonderful garden writer Jo Arnell, talking about how to have<br />
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Aaron Bertelsen<br />
The vegetable gardener and cook at Great Dixter,<br />
Aaron will be talking about cooking inspired by what is<br />
growing in the garden. (See an extract from his wonderful<br />
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Martin Gurdon<br />
There are people who keep chickens for eggs – and then there’s<br />
the rest of us, who start with the eggs and then fall in love with<br />
the chickens. Former Telegraph columnist Martin Gurdon<br />
will be talking about his life with ‘the feather-clad soap opera’<br />
and his book Hen & The Art of Chicken Maintenance.<br />
Aaron Bertelsen<br />
Martin Gurdon<br />
There will be more <strong>Garden</strong> Hub speakers announced in the next<br />
few weeks, so keep an eye on the website for the full timetable.<br />
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Animal magic<br />
Creating a pond in your garden will bring in wonderful wildlife says Sue Whigham<br />
The big chill of February and<br />
March were very unkind to my<br />
lovely little water lily (Pygmaea<br />
rubra) that has spent eight years in a<br />
large copper in one of my flower beds.<br />
Hibernating plants like that won’t survive<br />
a cold spell if the water freezes over<br />
completely. And, oh boy, it did.<br />
But I won’t be giving up on water<br />
plants and the other things that make a<br />
garden attractive to wildlife. To increase<br />
the number and variety of animal species<br />
around you the essentials are: trees,<br />
plants and shrubs that produce seed<br />
heads and berries, deadwood, areas of<br />
unstrimmed long grass and – most of<br />
all – water.<br />
It seems that one in ten British gardens<br />
has some sort of a pond, making about<br />
two million in total. They provide a vital<br />
network of ‘wetland habitats’ throughout<br />
our ever-expanding urban areas. The<br />
combination of what seems like frenzied<br />
house building on green fields and<br />
climate change means a significant loss of<br />
wildlife havens, but we can all do our bit<br />
to ameliorate this.<br />
It doesn’t even matter if we have<br />
limited space, as even a balcony, roof<br />
terrace or patio can accommodate some<br />
sort of water gardening. All you need<br />
is a watertight container which is deep<br />
enough to give aquatic plants some space<br />
and ensures that the temperature of the<br />
water doesn’t fluctuate too much when<br />
things warm up in the summer.<br />
Something pretty like a copper, an old<br />
galvanised container or ceramic pot is<br />
lovely, but you can also use something<br />
cheap and perhaps not so beautiful like<br />
a bin or large plastic tub and sink it into<br />
the ground. This has the advantage of<br />
keeping the water cool in summer and<br />
protects from freezing – with a bit of<br />
luck – in the winter.<br />
I think spring is the ideal time to<br />
set up a new pond and an informal<br />
arrangement is best for wildlife. In a<br />
perfect world you would choose a sunny<br />
site, away from overhanging trees, with<br />
shallow edges that allow animals easy<br />
access to the water.<br />
If your site is on the shady side<br />
you’ll find different inhabitants setting<br />
up home than if you have the pond<br />
somewhere brighter and warmer. The<br />
best ponds have gently shelving edges <br />
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Credit: Rob Cursons<br />
fringed by grasses. Some of the carexes<br />
are perfect for this.<br />
I love the bright gold C. elata ‘Aurea’<br />
and the stripy phragmites growing with<br />
the variegated leaves of Iris pseudoacorus<br />
‘Variegata’, perfect marginal plants for<br />
the damp edges of your pond.<br />
Once you’ve put your pond in –<br />
whether dug straight into the ground, or<br />
in a vessel – it will fill up naturally with<br />
rain (which is why August is not a good<br />
month to do it).<br />
Avoid topping up with tap water as<br />
it has high nutrient levels<br />
and will upset the balance<br />
of the pond water – and<br />
remember, it is normal for<br />
water levels to go up and<br />
down, benefitting different<br />
kinds of creatures. When<br />
water evaporates in summer<br />
damp mud is ideal territory<br />
for many invertebrates.<br />
The really marvellous thing is that<br />
once your pond or water container is in<br />
place and filled with life-giving H2O, it<br />
will colonise naturally.<br />
Small animals may well arrive<br />
within the hour and water beetles and<br />
dragonflies within a couple of days.<br />
Plants take their time and it may be a<br />
year or two before the amphibians spot<br />
a new residence. You may have to add<br />
algae-eating ramshorn snails as well as<br />
great pond snails, to keep algae growth<br />
in check (available on line).<br />
Plants for shallow water and ledges<br />
Apart from the yellow flags (irises),<br />
include water forget-me-not (Myosotis<br />
“Once your pond<br />
is filled with<br />
life-giving H2O,<br />
small animals<br />
may well arrive<br />
within the hour”<br />
scorpioides) which is a perennial<br />
wildflower with creeping roots.<br />
The flowers are rather pretty;<br />
blue with a pink or yellow central eye.<br />
water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)<br />
has clouds of pinky white flowers above<br />
rosettes of oval leaves on long stalks. It<br />
has two major advantages in that it self<br />
seeds and the seeds are highly desirable<br />
for wildlife.<br />
Floating/deep-water plants<br />
Hottonia palustris or water violet is an<br />
oxygenating perennial and is perfect once<br />
your pond is established. It flowers early<br />
with blooms rising up above its leaves in<br />
spikes of white and pale lilac.<br />
Frogbit, too, is a rather handsome<br />
perennial, free floating<br />
plant with shiny, kidney<br />
shaped leaves and a threepetalled<br />
white flower. It<br />
provides a good cover<br />
and shelter for aquatic<br />
creatures. Oxygenating<br />
plants such as this, curled<br />
pondweed and water<br />
starwort, are an important<br />
food source for wildlife.<br />
A couple of years ago we were rather<br />
mystified to find a great crested newt<br />
wandering around on the<br />
kitchen floor. Had we still had<br />
cats, it might have been easier<br />
to understand. However it<br />
seems that great crested newts<br />
hibernate in a variety of habitats<br />
depending on the time of year<br />
and this one was no exception.<br />
Common newts often<br />
overwinter in ponds, as do<br />
frogs and any tadpoles that<br />
didn’t emerge the summer<br />
before. Water snails tend to<br />
disappear into the deeper<br />
recesses of any pond in<br />
the winter, as do other<br />
creatures such as water hog<br />
lice, but occasionally in the<br />
summer you’ll see snails<br />
on the surface taking great<br />
gulps of fresh air.<br />
Then there are the insects.<br />
Dragonfly will lay its eggs on<br />
aquatic plants or drop them<br />
on to the surface of a pond in<br />
summer. Their nymphs then<br />
spend the next three or four<br />
years in the pond before they<br />
metamorphose into the<br />
spectacularly iridescent creatures that we<br />
see hovering over water in the summer.<br />
Common pond skaters live on the<br />
surface of a pond and feed off any<br />
smaller insect that has the misfortune<br />
to fall in. Then there are lesser water<br />
boatmen, whirligig beetles, great diving<br />
beetles and common backswimmers<br />
which fly at night and are usually one of<br />
the first arrivals to a new pond. It seems<br />
that they are predators of other water<br />
inhabitants.<br />
So with all these creatures and the<br />
summer visits from birds to bats how<br />
could you ever be bored? Finally, of<br />
course, your pond will provide water for<br />
mammals such as badgers and foxes –<br />
although having just had a devastating<br />
visit from a fox to my hen house, I’m<br />
finding it difficult to have good thoughts<br />
about them right now.<br />
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information and advice partnership<br />
between the Royal Horticultural Society<br />
and Wildlife Trusts.<br />
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How does your garden grow?<br />
We are a nation of gardeners, but sometimes it pays to bring in the professionals<br />
We buy the books, watch <strong>Garden</strong>ers’ World and<br />
avidly read the brilliant gardening writers in<br />
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attention – or is even brand new - it’s really worth getting the<br />
expert help of qualified horticultural consultants. We asked<br />
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Topiary maintained by Heritage Grounds<br />
Heritage Grounds Services and the<br />
Tree & Hedge Company<br />
Alan Jones, owner and horticultural consultant<br />
You have two horticultural businesses, what do they each do?<br />
I set up the Tree & Hedge Company, which specialises in<br />
putting in and maintaining those things. My oldest son Ben<br />
is also a horticulturalist and set up Heritage Grounds which<br />
improves and maintains larger mature gardens. We do the<br />
grounds at Cliveden, for example.<br />
What are the main things the Tree & Hedge Company does?<br />
We provide a lot of hedges for quality new builds. Companies<br />
tell us it’s our hedging that actually sells the houses. Even the<br />
most beautiful new houses look hard when they’re first built,<br />
but softened with greenery, the appeal is instant.<br />
Is there a lower limit for the scale of projects you take on?<br />
Not at all. A client has just called wanting to buy his wife a<br />
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What specialist services do you offer? We might be called in<br />
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What is the tallest tree you have ever put in? A London<br />
plane tree 11 metres tall. What is your favourite hedge? We<br />
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What feature do you think makes the single biggest<br />
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Practicality Brown<br />
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How did the name of the company come about? The<br />
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the famous 18th century landscape designers.<br />
Is there a lower limit for the scale of projects you take on?<br />
We can work on projects that are just a few trees, or<br />
improving 10m of mature hedging, but as Instant<br />
Landscape Specialists, we are able to provide a complete<br />
service, from suggesting semi-mature trees for specific<br />
situations to sourcing unusual topiary specimens<br />
and planting our home-grown instant hedge.<br />
How long does it take you to finish a project like that?<br />
Our installation team are very experienced and can<br />
plant over 50 linear metres of hedge a day. With trees<br />
and topiary, more planning is needed and some projects<br />
can take several weeks. We do have a few large projects,<br />
usually involving a new house build, that have taken a<br />
few months, working alongside the construction.<br />
Do you provide all the labour, as well as the trees, shrubs<br />
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Are you designers as well, or do you work to a design<br />
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What feature do you think makes the single biggest<br />
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Grass roots<br />
It’s that time of year when you suddenly notice your lawn is not at its Wimbledon best – time for expert advice<br />
No matter how much you love gardening,<br />
there is one job you really shouldn’t try<br />
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Grant Goldfinch, of the Lawn Revival Team, tells<br />
us that one in five of the lawns he is called out to look<br />
at have been damaged by the homeowners themselves<br />
over fertilising using garden centre products. So we<br />
asked Grant, and Matthew Boatwright of Kent & Sussex<br />
Lawns, to share some of their lawn lore with us.<br />
Grant Goldfinch, Lawn Revival Team<br />
Has lawn care changed in the twenty<br />
years you’ve worked in it?<br />
There is a movement towards natural solutions, because<br />
legislation is removing a lot of the magic bullets we used to<br />
have in the form of chemicals. A lot of what we do is around<br />
good soil health - 90% of lawns can be renovated through a<br />
regular treatment programme, aeration, scarification (raking)<br />
overseeding and top dressing. Using those techniques we<br />
can bring them back to their former glory or better.<br />
Do you offer regular maintenance packages?<br />
We do seasonal lawn treatment programmes,<br />
predominantly based around weed and feed, controlling<br />
the moss. We conduct four or five treatments a year<br />
depending on the lawn and every time we treat it, we<br />
will inspect the lawn and if we identify a pest or disease<br />
issue, such as red thread, we would treat that.<br />
Do you give your customers advice on what they can<br />
do to improve their lawns themselves between visits?<br />
Yes, cultural control is advising customers what they can do<br />
to maintain the lawn in its best condition. For example, if<br />
you have a lot of coarse grass growing, from blown in weed<br />
grass seeds, you should change your mowing direction each<br />
time, because those grasses don’t like being mown into. Also<br />
avoid mowing too short because it will encourage moss and<br />
weeds. A lawn is all about competition between species and<br />
if you’re knocking back the grass too low, you’re putting it at<br />
a disadvantage. The optimal length is 1.25 to 1.5 inches.<br />
Is there an ideal time of year to start lawn care?<br />
All four seasons need different treatments for different<br />
reasons – you can start at any time of year, but we will<br />
be doing different things. In spring you kill weeds and<br />
feed grass, continuing through summer, then in autumn<br />
and winter it’s moss control and hardening the grass up.<br />
If you start a seasonal treatment plan in the summer<br />
we wouldn’t be able to start killing the moss until<br />
autumn – and you can’t kill weeds in winter, because<br />
herbicide is only effective if the plant is growing.<br />
Are there ever lawns that are beyond repair?<br />
With new build houses, the lawn tends to be thrown down<br />
on top of debris and compacted ground, so it looks lovely<br />
when you buy the house, but as soon as you have a hot<br />
summer, it starts to suffer. A lot of the lawns we lay are<br />
replacements for new houses. It’s not cost effective to keep<br />
repairing them, better to start again and prepare the soil,<br />
have the right kind of root loam and then it will last.<br />
Do you offer services for other parts of the garden?<br />
In autumn we do leaf clearance because of the damage it<br />
can do encouraging bugs. Most of our customers are lawn<br />
enthusiasts themselves and like to do the mowing themselves,<br />
but we do a lot of pre-season and post-season mowing,<br />
because you want to make sure you are removing any debris<br />
getting it ready for the season, or putting it to bed for winter<br />
and we have specialist mowers which act like vacuums<br />
clearing it all up. The main other thing we do is putting<br />
in steel edging, to create a neat edge next to flower beds.<br />
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Matthew Boatright, Kent & Sussex Lawns<br />
What are the most common lawn<br />
issues people call you about?<br />
Moss. People call me after the winter when it’s been wet<br />
and there’s a lot of moss, also fungal diseases, particularly<br />
red thread which creates bleached patches on the lawn.<br />
Do you offer regular maintenance packages?<br />
Essentially that’s what we do. We offer regular visits,<br />
two or four times a year, to fertilise, do treatments,<br />
weed control, scarifying and aeration in the autumn<br />
and through the winter months. It helps with drainage<br />
and to allow oxygen into the root system.<br />
Is there a minimum lawn size you will treat?<br />
If I can walk on it, I can treat it.<br />
Are the products you use safe for<br />
children, pets and wildlife?<br />
They are rigorously tested and it’s all about applying them<br />
correctly, at the correct dose rate. Some you need to be<br />
prudent with, because they can be harmful to aquatic<br />
life, so you leave buffer zones if people have ponds –<br />
that’s why you need an expert. We also make sure our<br />
customers know what time we’ve finished, so they can<br />
keep pets and children in until enough time has passed.<br />
Are there ever lawns that are beyond repair?<br />
There are often problems with<br />
lawns with new build houses, but<br />
even with properly laid lawns,<br />
they have a life span like any<br />
plant and the time will come<br />
when they start to thin out and<br />
the moss starts to take over, so<br />
then you are better to relay it.<br />
Kent & Sussex Lawns,<br />
0845 467 0258,<br />
kentsussexlawns.com<br />
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Let the children speak<br />
Listening to school age kids is vital – but first you have to get them to talk says Hilary Wilce<br />
All the research shows that children whose parents<br />
support them at school and show an interest in what<br />
they’re learning do better than those children whose<br />
parents don’t. And all parents know that while that sounds<br />
simple, it’s actually really hard. “What did you do today?”<br />
“Nothing.” “Who did you play with?” “Don’t remember.”<br />
Little wonder that, as a survey of 2,000 parents shows,<br />
we only spend about 14 minutes trying to have after-school<br />
conversations with our children. But some schools are finding<br />
imaginative, new ways to foster home-school links, like the<br />
primary school in Somerset that sends its youngest pupils<br />
home with a bag of three pebbles, one shiny, one dull, and<br />
one pointy. These represent one special thing that happened<br />
in the day, one dull thing, and one difficult thing, and both<br />
parents and children are encouraged to use them as ways to get<br />
a conversation going.<br />
However, there are many useful things you can do to<br />
encourage post-school chats. Don’t come on too strong.<br />
Children need time to transition from school and hate being<br />
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Learn patience. Many children like to chat about school<br />
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your child to respond. “A really funny thing happened to me at<br />
lunchtime…”<br />
Ask open questions. “What was the best part of your day?” not<br />
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Learn as much as you can about your child’s routine, teachers<br />
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Seize useful moments. Many parents find that talking in the<br />
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Aim to be as relaxed and natural as you can, children will close<br />
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But my top tip by a mile would be the old adage ‘two ears, one<br />
mouth’. So always listen twice as much as talking.<br />
Type it out and stick it on the fridge.<br />
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chinthurstschool.co.uk<br />
chinthurstschool.co.uk<br />
Open Day 3rd May Outstanding 11+ Results 2017<br />
Co-educational school for children aged 3-11 years<br />
52 Tadworth Street, Tadworth, <strong>Surrey</strong>, KT20 5QZ<br />
admissions@chinthurstschool.co.uk<br />
Telephone 52 Tadworth 01737 Street, 812011 Tadworth, <strong>Surrey</strong>, KT20 5QZ<br />
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Telephone 01737 812011<br />
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‘‘ Bringing out the best in boys ’’<br />
A day in the life of Aldro... come and see for yourself<br />
OPEN MORNING•Saturday 12th May <strong>2018</strong> •11:00am–12:30pm<br />
If you would like to attend an Open Morning, request a prospectus, or arrange an individual tour,<br />
please contact the Admissions Office on 01483 813535 or email: admissions@aldro.org<br />
Aldro, Lombard Street, Shackleford, Godalming, <strong>Surrey</strong> GU8 6AS www.aldro.org<br />
There’s no such thing<br />
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Open Events<br />
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Pre-Preps<br />
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Book Launch<br />
Saturday 14th <strong>April</strong><br />
With Celebrity Chef Tony Tobin<br />
The<br />
Ashley<br />
Centre<br />
All recipes in this book were supplied by local residents and £3<br />
from the sale of each book will go to two local charities<br />
Discover more on the back cover.<br />
Pop down to The Ashley Centre on Saturday 14th <strong>April</strong> to see<br />
Celebrity Chef Tony Tobin creating some<br />
mouthwatering recipes using his own<br />
culinary secrets and producing a<br />
couple of recipes from the book.<br />
The Recipe for Success book has been created using recipes from local<br />
residents and £3 from the sale of each book will go to the Centres chosen<br />
charities, Epsom Branch Guide Dogs and The Sunnybank Trust.<br />
The kitchen will be in the Centre from Monday 9th <strong>April</strong> until<br />
Friday 13th <strong>April</strong> with retailer demonstrations and tastings.<br />
The<br />
Ashley<br />
Centre<br />
www.theashleycentre.co.uk<br />
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@ashley_centre<br />
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free wi-fi<br />
For more information visit<br />
www.theashleycentre.co.uk<br />
Tony Tobin
Love Art, Share the Joy<br />
Fine Art • Investment Art • Pop Art • Sculptures • Framing<br />
11 The Parade, Claygate, <strong>Surrey</strong>, KT10 0PD<br />
WWW.TREWART.COM • Telephone 01372 470997<br />
May Half Term<br />
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Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village<br />
Sunday 27 May - Sunday 3 June<br />
Guildford GU3 1DQ | wattsgallery.org.uk | Open B.H. Monday<br />
Kids go<br />
FREE<br />
PAPERMANIA Monday 7 May | 10am - 5pm | Free with admission<br />
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The Spring Contemporary<br />
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200 Exhibitors<br />
NEW FOR THIS YEAR:<br />
• 30 demonstrating exhibitors<br />
• Live music on a central stage<br />
• Specialist food exhibitors<br />
The UK’s most popular Craft Fair<br />
9am – 6pm Thursday to Sunday<br />
9am – 5pm Monday<br />
(<strong>Garden</strong> open to 6pm daily)<br />
Admission to <strong>Garden</strong> also gives admission to Fair<br />
Normal admission charges apply<br />
Free <strong>Garden</strong> entry for RHS<br />
Members • Last entry 1 hour<br />
before closing • GU23 6QB<br />
www.craftinfocus.com T: 01622 747325<br />
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What’s On In <strong>April</strong><br />
Art<br />
Sat 21 Apr – Sat 2 Jun<br />
New Ashgate Gallery, Waggon<br />
Yard/Lower Church Lane,<br />
Farnham GU9 7PS<br />
Celebration of<br />
Illustration<br />
New Ashgate Gallery explores<br />
the importance of visual<br />
communication in everyday<br />
life along with the pleasure of<br />
drawing as a feast for the eyes.<br />
The upcoming show features local<br />
and nationally acclaimed artists,<br />
Diana Boyle, Claire Caulfield,<br />
Eliza Southwood, Nick Tankard,<br />
Liz Toole and James Warren.<br />
Info: newashgate.org.uk<br />
Children & Families<br />
Thurs 5, Fri 6, Mon 9, Tues 10<br />
& Weds 11 Apr<br />
Grayshott Pottery, School Road,<br />
Grayshott, Hindhead GU26<br />
6LR<br />
Pottery Throwing<br />
Learn to throw your own piece of<br />
pottery on a traditional potter’s<br />
wheel over the school holidays<br />
this Easter with Grayshott<br />
Pottery’s lessons for children and<br />
adults.<br />
Entry: £15 including one glazed<br />
and fired piece<br />
Info: grayshottpottery.com<br />
Easter<br />
Fri 30 Mar – Sun 15 Apr<br />
Brooklands Museum,<br />
Brooklands Road, Weybridge<br />
KT13 0SL<br />
Easter Holiday Family<br />
Fun at brooklands<br />
Enjoy the Easter holidays with<br />
vintage car rides, bus rides<br />
courtesy of the London Bus<br />
Museum, an Easter egg trail, kids’<br />
tours of Concorde and the cargo<br />
paper plane challenge.<br />
Info: brooklandsmuseum.com<br />
Fri 30 Mar – Sun 15 Apr<br />
Bockett’s Farm Park, Young<br />
Street, Fetcham, Leatherhead<br />
KT22 9BS<br />
Easter Eggstravaganza<br />
Learn all about spring at a farm<br />
this year with Bockett’s 350<br />
gorgeous new-born lambs, ‘Meet<br />
the Shepherd’ sessions, an Easter<br />
craft corner, a stamp trail and a<br />
full programme of farm activities<br />
including tractor and pony rides,<br />
goat milking, and pig races.<br />
Info: bockettsfarm.co.uk<br />
Weekdays Tues 3 – Fri 13 Apr<br />
<strong>Surrey</strong> Outdoor Learning &<br />
Development, Headley Lane,<br />
Mickleham, Dorking RH5 6DQ<br />
Easter Holiday<br />
Activities at High<br />
Ashurst<br />
Keep children and young adults<br />
amused over the Easter holidays<br />
with activities including low<br />
ropes, climbing, wilderness<br />
survival, archery, and mountain<br />
biking.<br />
Entry: £45/day<br />
Info: surreyoutdoorlearning.uk<br />
Fairs & Festivals<br />
Sun 8 Apr 9.30am-4pm<br />
Lingfield Park Resort<br />
Racecourse, Racecourse Road,<br />
Lingfield RH7 6PQ<br />
Antiques, Collectables<br />
& Vintage Fair<br />
Expect 130 indoor stalls bristling<br />
with some amazing antiques,<br />
collectables and vintage items<br />
at this friendly fair, as well as a<br />
licenced bar, live swing singer,<br />
and on-site facilities including a<br />
hotel, spa and golf course.<br />
Entry: from 9.30am £4, from<br />
10.30am £2.50<br />
Info: lovefairs.com<br />
Food & Drink<br />
Fri 13 Apr<br />
Albury Vineyard, Silent Pool,<br />
Shere Road, Albury GU5 9BW<br />
Cocktail Night<br />
Tattams are returning to the<br />
vineyard on Friday 13th <strong>April</strong> for<br />
an evening of cocktails and fizz.<br />
Get a group of friends together<br />
and celebrate the end of the week<br />
with a hand-crafted cocktail<br />
featuring Albury Estate sparkling<br />
wines and their new spirit, Attila’s<br />
Bite. Watch and learn how the<br />
cocktails are made and learn<br />
about the English wine scene.<br />
Entry: £10 including a cocktail or<br />
glass of bubbly on arrival<br />
Info: alburyvineyard.com<br />
The Talbot Ripley, High Street,<br />
Ripley, Woking GU23 6BB<br />
Sat 21 Apr<br />
Mad Hatter’s<br />
Afternoon Tea Party<br />
It’s national tea day! The Talbot<br />
are inviting guests down the<br />
rabbit hole for a Wonderland<br />
afternoon tea like no other.<br />
Entry: £30<br />
Info: thetalbotripley.com<br />
Sat 21 Apr 10am-7pm<br />
Old Deer Park, 187 Kew Road,<br />
Richmond TW9 2AZ<br />
<strong>Surrey</strong> Food Festival<br />
Local businesses will be<br />
showcasing an exquisite range of<br />
different food & drink, traders<br />
will be demonstrating and selling<br />
their products in the Marketplace<br />
and there’s even a Kids’ Zone to<br />
keep your little ones entertained<br />
while you indulge. Local charities<br />
will benefit from the proceeds.<br />
Info: surreyfoodfestival.com<br />
Weds 25 Apr 11am-4pm<br />
Denbies Wine Estate Ltd,<br />
London Road, Dorking<br />
RH5 6AA<br />
One Day Wine<br />
Workshop<br />
All levels of knowledge are<br />
welcome on this one day<br />
workshop covering all aspects of<br />
wine tasting and appreciation,<br />
grape varieties, and wine regions.<br />
Entry: £98.50<br />
Info: denbies.co.uk<br />
Thurs 26 – Sun 29 Apr<br />
Guildford Cathedral Marquee,<br />
Stag Hill, Guildford GU2 7UP<br />
Gin Festival Guildford<br />
The UK’s first, biggest and best<br />
gin festival is making a visit to<br />
Guildford and it’s bringing an<br />
enormous variety of different<br />
gins with it. As well as the<br />
opportunity to try a huge variety<br />
of gins from all over the world,<br />
(including exclusive gins you<br />
won’t see anywhere else) there<br />
will be live music, great food<br />
and a gin cocktail bar. There will<br />
also be gin masterclasses and the<br />
opportunity to meet gin distillers<br />
in person, try free samples and<br />
chat about their gin.<br />
Info: ginfestival.com<br />
Sat 28 – Sun 29 Apr<br />
Rosemary Shrager’s Cookery<br />
School, The Corn Exchange,<br />
The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge<br />
Wells TN2 5TE<br />
French & Italian<br />
Weekend with<br />
Rosemary Shrager<br />
This two day course will include<br />
a mixture of hands on cookery<br />
and demonstrations performed by<br />
Rosemary Shrager. Explore dishes<br />
that reflect the diverse geography<br />
and culture of France and Italy<br />
to gain skills to help you build a<br />
range of dishes to cook at home.<br />
Entry: £395<br />
Info: rosemaryshrager.com<br />
<strong>Garden</strong><br />
Sat 7 Apr<br />
RHS <strong>Garden</strong> Wisley, Wisley<br />
Lane, Woking GU23 6QB<br />
Cactus Fun<br />
The British Cacti and Succulent<br />
Society visits RHS <strong>Garden</strong> Wisley<br />
to help visitors learn how to grow<br />
and look after these fascinating<br />
plants with demonstrations and<br />
advice on everything from where<br />
to buy, to how to repot when<br />
they get too big. Children will get<br />
free seed sowing kits and there<br />
will be some fabulous specimens<br />
on show.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01483 224234 /<br />
rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley<br />
Weds 18 Apr – Thurs 3 May<br />
10am-5pm<br />
Polesden Lacey, Great<br />
Bookham, Dorking RH5 6BD<br />
Floral Fusion<br />
Polesden reflects on Mrs.<br />
Greville’s adventures in Asia with<br />
a Floral Fusion extravaganza<br />
featuring cool-coloured<br />
Hyacinths, Tulips and Muscari.<br />
Entry: Normal admission applies.<br />
Info: 01372 452048 /<br />
nationaltrust.org.uk/polesden-lacey<br />
Sat 28 Apr 10am-12.30pm<br />
Merrist Wood College<br />
Make your own Summer<br />
Planter or Hanging<br />
Basket<br />
Save money and personalise your<br />
garden by creating your own<br />
summer hanging baskets and<br />
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Now open!<br />
Brand new indoor<br />
playarea now open!<br />
Let little imaginations run wild!<br />
PLUS animal holding, lambs, sandpits,<br />
tractor rides and more!<br />
Find out more: www.godstonefarm.co.uk<br />
01883 742546<br />
ART<br />
FAIR<br />
19 & 20 May<br />
10am - 5pm, Admission £4, Concessions £3, Under 16s & LAC members FREE<br />
LandmarkArts Landmark Arts Centre landmarkartfairs<br />
Ferry Road, Teddington, TW11 9NN, 020 8977 7558, www.landmarkartscentre.org<br />
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Above: Lalique<br />
Perruches bowl the<br />
opalescent glass with<br />
a freeze of parakeets.<br />
Est: £1,000-1,500<br />
Left: '<strong>Garden</strong> Chair',<br />
chair sculpture<br />
designed by Peter<br />
Opsvik, 1985.<br />
Est: £600-1,000<br />
Antique & Collectors’: 11 <strong>April</strong><br />
Asian Art: 12 <strong>April</strong><br />
Vintage Fashion, Textiles & Sewing: 12 <strong>April</strong><br />
Decorative Arts: 26 <strong>April</strong><br />
Contemporary Art: 26 <strong>April</strong><br />
<strong>Garden</strong> Furniture: 10 May<br />
Fine Wines & Spirits: 10 May<br />
Plus buyers premium at<br />
27% inc. VAT<br />
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planters on this hands-on half day<br />
course.<br />
Entry: £45<br />
Info: 01483 884000 /<br />
merristwood.ac.uk<br />
Music & Theatre<br />
Thurs 12 Apr<br />
The Leatherhead Theatre, 7<br />
Church Street, Leatherhead<br />
KT22 8DN<br />
British Philharmonic<br />
Big Band in Concert<br />
See The British Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra’s big band in a charity<br />
concert raising funds for Prostate<br />
Cancer UK. The orchestra will be<br />
performing the sounds of Sinatra<br />
and the swing era as well as other<br />
big band classics of modern<br />
times.<br />
Entry: Adults £20, Under 18s £10<br />
Info: 01372 365141 /<br />
theleatherheadtheatre.com<br />
Sat 14 Apr 8pm<br />
New Victoria Theatre, The<br />
Ambassadors, Peacocks Centre,<br />
Woking GU21 6GQ<br />
Ed Byrne: Spoiler Alert<br />
Ed Byrne spoils audiences as<br />
he asks just how spoiled are<br />
we? Is life really as bad as all<br />
our moaning, complaining and<br />
general whininess makes out?<br />
Entry: £31<br />
Info: 0800 912 6971 /<br />
atgtickets.com<br />
Mon 16 – Sat 21 Apr<br />
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre,<br />
Millbrook, Guildford GU1 3UX<br />
Kite Runner<br />
Based on Khaled Hosseini’s<br />
international bestselling novel<br />
and following a sell-out West End<br />
run, the unforgettable tour de<br />
force The Kite Runner comes to<br />
Guildford.<br />
Info: 01483 440000 /<br />
yvonne-arnaud.co.uk<br />
Workshops<br />
Sat 21 Apr 11am-4pm<br />
Watts Gallery Artists’ Village,<br />
Down Lane, Compton,<br />
Guildford GU3 1DQ<br />
Photography<br />
A chance for 13-16 year olds to<br />
learn how to capture creative<br />
What’s On In <strong>April</strong><br />
images on a DSLR camera<br />
with the help of professional<br />
photographer Lynn Weddle.<br />
Entry: £25<br />
Info: 01483 810235 /<br />
wattsgallery.org.uk<br />
Sun 22 Apr<br />
Painshill, Portsmouth Road,<br />
Cobham KT11 1JE<br />
Introduction to Chair<br />
Making – Make a Three-<br />
Legged Stool<br />
Make your very own traditional<br />
three-legged stool with<br />
experienced woodsman Mervyn<br />
Mewis of Green Wood Works. All<br />
plans and materials supplied, no<br />
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Entry: £110<br />
Info: painshill.co.uk<br />
Sat 28 Apr 10am-4pm<br />
Farnham Maltings, Bridge<br />
Square, Farnham GU9 7QR<br />
Belt making<br />
Make your own beautiful madeto-measure<br />
leather belt using<br />
traditional skills and specialist<br />
tools. No experience needed, all<br />
materials provided and if time<br />
allows, you may also have time to<br />
make another small accessory.<br />
Entry: £70<br />
Info: 01252 745444 /<br />
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Kent <strong>Garden</strong> Show<br />
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Sat 26th, Sun 27th & Mon 28th May<br />
Gates Open 9.30am - 5pm (last admission 4pm)<br />
Featuring over 300 exhibitors with a wide variety of goods.<br />
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30th March - 15th <strong>April</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from<br />
the Farm<br />
It’s that joyous time of year for new arrivals on the farm<br />
and Jane has some very important dates in her diary<br />
Spring officially kicked off on 20th March but after that<br />
especially cold and snowy snap, the arrival of the real<br />
yet unofficial thing, whenever that happens will be<br />
very warmly welcomed. <strong>April</strong> usually delivers the goods and<br />
heralds lots of changes on the farm and all of them are a cause<br />
for great joy.<br />
Given hay and somewhere dry to shelter, our hardy native<br />
Sussex cows would happily outwinter, but they would churn<br />
all the fields into a muddy quagmire and effectively put paid<br />
to any expectation of a good flush of spring grass. Instead, our<br />
grass was only winter grazed by sheep, so once the soil reaches<br />
a temperature of about 10C it will turn green and start to<br />
grow again and will be the sweetest, freshest grass of the year.<br />
Having been housed since November, turnout is a cause<br />
for major bovine celebration. Tentative at first, the cows<br />
come out of the barn and suddenly realising they’re free they<br />
stampede off, frolicking and kicking their heels in the air in a<br />
complete show of joy and happiness.<br />
For the mums things will settle down after about three laps<br />
of the field but for the calves it’s a completely<br />
different matter. Having been born in February<br />
and March they’ve never really had the<br />
opportunity to test drive all four legs. But once<br />
tried there’s no stopping them. Round and<br />
round they go, turbo charged, until, they run<br />
out of muscle power and puff.<br />
For the bull, the advent of spring is even<br />
more exciting. George, our resident stock bull,<br />
who I’ve written about often, has now packed his bags and set<br />
off up the M40 to pastures new in Great Missenden.<br />
After three years of loyal service, his two-year-old daughters<br />
– now known as bulling heifers - are ready to come into the<br />
breeding herd so we needed a new sire. Enter Eric, who will<br />
arrive on the farm at the end of this month.<br />
But Eric won’t be the only arrival this month. The first<br />
swallows should come back to Coopers from south of<br />
the Sahara (which makes George’s journey seem a little<br />
insignificant) any time from 14th <strong>April</strong>.<br />
Last year it was the 16th and for the past<br />
“It’s funny how<br />
despite advancing<br />
years, the journey of<br />
tadpoles into frogdom<br />
remains fascinating”<br />
ten years they have only ever varied the date<br />
by one or two days. I know this because I<br />
keep a diary of events that happen on the<br />
farm – and have done so ever since we came<br />
here twenty years ago.<br />
In our first year a purveyor of animal<br />
feeds and mineral blocks gave me a swanky<br />
A4 desk diary, and has done so every year<br />
since. With no appointments or meetings to write in, it makes<br />
for a wonderful record of our farming year and of what’s<br />
going on in the natural world. This recording of the times of<br />
recurring natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate<br />
is called phenology and it’s a very addictive hobby.<br />
Frog spawn always appears in the ponds at the beginning of<br />
March and is now just hatching into a wriggling black soup<br />
– funny how despite advancing years, the journey of tadpoles<br />
into frogdom remains an absolute fascination.<br />
I’ve also seen our first bumble bees, butterflies, ladybirds<br />
and moths. But what I haven’t yet heard is the cuckoo.<br />
When we first came to Coopers, they were a common sound<br />
(anywhen from 12th <strong>April</strong>, if you’re interested) but last year I<br />
only heard the cuckoo once and that wasn’t here on this farm<br />
so it looks like they are in deep trouble.<br />
Is there anything we can do? Fingers crossed the<br />
nightingales arrive on 2nd May.<br />
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