Surrey Homes | SH66 | April 2020 | Gardens supplement

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Contents 

April 2020 

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HOUSE OF THE MONTH 

Maggie Alderson’s pick of 

the property market 

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MADE IN THE UK 

Rebecca Cuffe hunts the 

best of British Easter eggs 

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FEASTS FOR FAMILIES 

An Easter spread with options for 

vegetarians and pescatarians 

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NOTEBOOK 

Our guide to staying 

home in style 

DRESSED TO IMPRESS 

We tour a unique and 

impressive former pub 

GET THE LOOK 

Dress your own home to impress 

SHELF LOVE 

Rebecca Cuffe styles shelf fillers 

HOUSE OF BEULAH 

A contemporary 

Tunbridge Wells villa 

GET THE LOOK 

Be inspired by that 

‘House of Beulah’ style 

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TOP HATS 

Kate Watts shops 

stunning headpieces 

RESPONSIBLE BEAUTY 

Josephine Fairley explains 

how to keep your beauty 

routine eco-friendly 

HOLIDAY SKIN 

Henrietta Norton’s 6-step 

guide to post-holiday skin 

LAZY BOTTOM 

Sarah Maxwell explains the real 

cause of your lower back pain 

FINAL GOODBYES 

We talk to experts 

about the different 

funeral options available 

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NOTICEBOARD 

Updates from South East schools 

READING PLEASURE 

The benefits of reading for children 

WHAT’S ON 

How to keep yourself amused with 

online tours, courses and activities 

COMPETITION 

Win a beautiful club 

bench by Bridgman 

FABLES FROM THE FARM 

It’s lambing season at Coopers Farm 

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House 

Month 

of the 

£3,959,000 

Grand Living 

Maggie Alderson picks her favourite homes on the market 

Eyhurst Farm House 

The dream: An absolute gem of 

a substantial 14th century manor 

house, with additions over the 

years, on a wonderfully rambling 

plan. There are magnificent 

rooms with deep bay windows 

on two floors, either side of the 

front door, creating the loveliest 

bedrooms and drawing room. 

There is glorious oak panelling 

and very impressive beamage. 

Where: Close to the village of 

Kingswood, four miles from Reigate 

and five from Sutton. 

Locale: Gorgeous, 

wooded countryside. 

Beds: 7 Baths: 6 

Special features: This house has the 

most perfect floor plan for parties, 

with lots of French windows, a big 

family room and a games room. 

Pleasing details: A large gym 

and an underground pool, with 

delightful Greek island frescos 

and a daylight lantern. 

Outside: On a five-acre plot with 

lawns, gardens, water features, a 

gazebo and a top-notch tennis court. 

Time to town: From Kingswood 

station, under an hour to 

London Bridge, or Victoria. 

Agent: Fine and Country, 

Kingswood 01737 361014 

fineandcountry.com 

surrey-homes.co.uk 

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Enton Mill 

£2,000,000 

The dream: A former mill, dating back 

to the 17th century, Grade II listed, 

converted and extended to create a 

family home in about 1903, overlooking 

two lakes in a setting of rare tranquility. 

The older rooms are panelled and cosy, 

while the Edwardian additions are 

lovely and big, drenched in light. 

Where: A mile from Witley village, four 

from Godalming and seven from Haslemere. 

Setting: Sitting between two lakes, 

surrounded by beautiful trees. 


Special features: The back façade of 

the house is particularly striking. 

Pleasing details: The wooden 

column of the old mill runs through 

the house up to the first floor. 

Outside: A loggia and terrace, leading 

onto lovely lawns, and down to the lake. 

Tennis court. There are three acres, with 

a bluebell and rhododendron walk. 

Time to town: Under an hour to 

Waterloo from nearby Milford station. 

Agent: Knight Frank, Guildford 

01483 378769 knightfrank.co.uk 

Old Parks 

£3,950,000 

The dream: A classic Victorian family 

home, extensively refurbished and 

extended to make it ideal for modern 

living, with all original features, 

such as cornices and carpentry 

restored to their glory. There is 

a very large and luxurious social 

kitchen with three French windows 

onto the garden. There is a selfcontained 

one-bedroom staff flat. 

Where: Two miles from Cobham 

Setting: Rural, screened by trees. 


Special features: A baronial staircase. 

Pleasing details: Very high ceilings. 

Outside: Impressive grounds of 6.5 

acres with a large swimming pool, 

with a pool house and a disused 

tennis court, ready for revival. The 

property has River Mole frontage. 

Time to town: From just 35 minutes 

to Waterloo, leaving from nearby 

Cobham & Stoke D’Abernon. 

Agent: Grosvenor Billinghurst 

01932 588288 grosvenorb.co.uk 

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What to do and see near you this month 

STAY 

We’re here 

... in spirit and online! 

priceless-magazines.com is 

our own little treasure trove 

of amusements where you’ll 

find delicious recipes, beautiful 

interiors, home workouts, gardening 

advice, and all of our past issues. 

at home 

in style 

life interesting while 

you’re spending time 

INKeep 

at home this month. 

Order up 

Now is a great time to support smaller businesses with your food deliveries. 

Lots of local farm shops, butchers and greengrocers are creating new local 

delivery services so they are worth checking. Hello Fresh (hellofresh.co.uk) 

is also great for exciting recipe boxes, and Albury vineyard have teamed up 

with Mandira’s Kitchen to deliver Wine & Dine in boxes with Indian food 

for two and a bottle of wine. (alburyvineyard.com / mandiraskitchen.com) 

Of course! 

Good Karma 

Because so many people 

are struggling mentally 

and physically, our wellbeing 

guru, Sarah Maxwell, is 

setting up a free weekly wellness 

programme for all fitness levels. 

Check out her Facebook page (@ 

sarahmaxwelllifestyle) on Thursdays 

at 6pm for 20 minutes of 

gentle exercise to help with 

the immune system, stress 

management and anxiety. 

Plus, take a look at 

the Bookfit app 

for live classes or 

Sarah’s website 

(sarahmaxwell.com) for 

online courses. Surrey 

Homes readers can get 

60% off the courses 

with discount code 

C19, which you can 

then keep and use 

when you choose. 

Use discount 

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wellbeing courses at 

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The NHS are looking for Volunteer Responders (goodsamapp.org) and NHS 

Charities Together has launched a appeal to support NHS staff and 

volunteers (nhscharitiestogether.co.uk). The National Emergencies Trust 

has its own fundraising appeal to aid local charities and grassroots 

organisations (nationalemergenciestrust.org.uk). Hospices of Hope 

has opened an emergency appeal after being inundated 

with pleas from patients that were discharged from 

Romanian hospitals (hospicesofhope.co.uk). 

There are frankly so many charities out there that 

need help that we can’t list them all. Please 

give what you can for those who are most 

in need, and you will feel better for 

having done your bit to help. 


Get Creative 

While you’ve got time indoors 

you might as well make it it a 

nice space to be in, and a project 

like painting or wallpaper will 

give you a creative outlet too. 

Wallsauce has a brilliant series of 

motivational wall murals (right) 

to give your home office a boost of 

positive energy (wallsauce.com). 

You could get some outdoorsy 

atmosphere with Little Greene’s National 

Trust wallpapers and some good ‘how to’ tips 

for painting from their blog (littlegreene.com). 

And Annie Sloan can still deliver beautiful 

chalk paint if you fancy painting furniture 

rather than walls, with a whole host of 

how-to videos online (anniesloan.com). 

Coronanxiety 

It is important to take care of ourselves mentally just as much as 

we do physically at this difficult time. If you are dealing with 

any anxiety, Anxiety UK has a number of online resources 

including webinars, online support groups and useful links 

with inormation to help put you at ease. (anxietyuk.org.uk). 

The NHS website also has a lot of tips, advice and real facts 

about what is happening at nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters. 

The Grand Tour 

If you’re looking for educational family activities, then be sure to check in on what museums, zoos and 

galleries are up to. The British Museum is covered by Google Streetview (above), plus they have a virtual 

reality project on African Rock Art that will transport you to South Africa, and a page on sketchfab.com 

that will let you view famous artifacts like the rosetta stone in 3D (britishmuseum.org). Elsewhere 

on the internet, the National Gallery has a Google Virtual Tour that will let you zoom 

in on masterpieces as they hang in the gallery’s rooms (nationalgallery.org.uk), 

artsandculture.google.com has tours of museums and galleries from around the 

world, and Edinburgh zoo has live feeds of some of its animals, including 

penguins, tigers, koalas and pandas (edinburghzoo.org.uk). 

Teaching Moment 

Daisy First Aid have online classes to teach parents and carers 

critical lifesaving skills as ambulance waiting times are getting 

long and the NHS is stretched to the limit. This service provides 

financial support for Daisy First Aid trainers, all of whom 

are self-employed and unable to run face to face 

courses. Parents and carers can learn how to help 

a baby or child who is injured or ill until 

professional medical support is available 

through video, audio and visual aids, 

plus there are fun educational live 

zoom sessions for parents and children 

at home. These options cost £20 and 

are available by contacting your local 

Daisy trainer at daisyfirstaid.com 

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Previous pages: The dining room table used to be Rob’s 

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artwork on the wall behind the dining table and the suit 

hanging from the ceiling in the corner were created by Rob. 

This page: The bottles displayed in a cosy side snug room 

were from Rob’s father who was an old-school pharmacist 

Describing a house as ‘tardis-like’ is a typical estate 

agent’s euphemism – suggesting that a house has 

more to offer than is perhaps evident from the 

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on the edge of the Weald in Kent – the size of the building 

comes as little surprise. It’s obviously a substantial pad. 

There are, however, a few clues on the outside to suggest 

that this might be a rather special home. The words: 

‘Saloon’, ‘Public Bar’ and ‘Dining Room’ etched into the 

front windows is not something you see every day… 

“It’s quite funny how people react,” says Jane, of the 

Grade II listed former pub. “People say, ‘Oh, isn’t it a shame 

you had to keep those windows!’ They’re pretty rare these 

days.” It’s clear that Rob and Jane wouldn’t have it any 

other way. It’s also evident that if any homeowners can rock 

this original feature, it’s them. Rob, a creative director in 

the music industry and Jane, whose career was in fashion 

retail, have worked their creative magic on this building 

over 20 years. Throw in the input of talented friends and 

designers and you’ve got something pretty unique – and not 

what you would expect to find in your average village. 

“When we first moved here we lived upstairs in what 

is now Rob’s studio while we ripped out the downstairs 

and opened it all up,” says Jane. Originally, the ground 

floor was dark and dingy, with lots of small rooms, linked 

by a central corridor – plus lots of fire doors. The floors 

were rotten, from years of spilt beer, and faux historic 

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Above: A piece by the artist Wreckage, a member of an art 

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panel of a fighter jet, hangs above the woodburner in the sitting 

room Left: Harvey Jones fitted out the kitchen 

neighbour, who was an architect specialising in old buildings. 

When Nick came in and said, ‘We’ll take these walls down, 

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we knew we’d made the right decision,” says Rob. The only 

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the doors. “We planned to have oak doors to the snug and 

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The couple, who met at school, lived and worked in 

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Bush, then Parsons Green, before they bought a Regency 

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for doing up period homes,” says Jane. After that, they 

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Left: The stairs were covered in thick black paint and were 

stripped back. A loo had been located where there is now a 

window halfway up the stairs Bottom left & right: The shelving 

in Jane’s workroom-cum-dressing room came from an old 

haberdasher’s in Birchington. “He was closing down, so I put 

a note through the door saying, ‘If you’re going to get rid of 

the shelving, please can I buy it?’ It houses all my junk really; 

hairdryers, bits and bobs,” says Jane 

is also a fantastic house at Christmas, they add, with 

all six bedrooms easily accommodating family… 

Filling the downstairs of the house would take some 

doing and, in recent years, the couple have even hosted 

one or two am-dram productions. “The stilettos killed the 

parquet,” laughs Jane. The mere fact that they allowed a 

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that we head to. I think that’s what we do as humans.” 

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the window, ‘I’m sure that’s a Paolozzi print’. So we phoned the 

shop the next day and spoke to a guy called Tommy Roberts, 

a barrow-boy made good in the fashion industry, who started 

a company called Practical Styling. I think he just needed 

some cash at the time, so he sold it to us quite reasonably.” 

Across the main room, I have to see what the snug is all about… 

“There’s a bit of a churchy theme going on in here,” says Jane, 

“though neither of us is terribly religious”. A marble carving is 

set in the wall, featuring the symbols Alpha & Omega – from 

the cradle to the grave. “We like mixing religious themes with 

pub décor,” says Rob. A prayer board, written in Arabic and 

found in Marrakesh, hangs on the wall, next to a salvaged chapel 

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is an equally bright painting by Nathan Pendlebury 

we had to find somewhere for it to fit!” says Jane. 

Next to the impressive door is an old dresser, stacked with 

quirky glassware and curios. “The bottles came from my 

father, who was an old-school pharmacist,” says Rob. “He 

had a lot of old bottles. Now, if I see a bottle, and I like 

the label, I buy it.” It’s the perfect alternative to a cabinet 

of curiosities, with added authenticity given the family 

connection. “We like it being a bit dusty too… It adds to 

it. I’m allowed to dust it once or twice a year,” says Jane. 

Next to the snug are the stairs. Wide, solid and with 

rustic, turned bannisters, they are a suitably grand heart 

to this substantial home. At the top of the first flight is 

a pretty leaded window, looking out over the terraced 

rear garden. A wide windowsill is home to an historiclooking 

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This page: The attic bedrooms have a darker, more historic feel 

little loo, or water closet, which I am sure was for the bar 

staff. Nick suggested we put a nice, recessed window in 

instead. Rob campaigned very hard to keep the toilet… 

I don’t know why, as there were loos everywhere!” 

Upstairs we get to see the generous number of bath and 

washrooms, starting first with what has been nicknamed ‘the 

dog’s bathroom’. Harvey, a seven-year-old caramel-coloured 

cockerpoo, is an extremely lucky boy, though I am not sure 

he fully appreciates the artworks on the wall, or Jane’s use 

of Farrow & Ball’s ‘Stony Ground’ on the walls. That said, 

neither does Rob: “I’m a bit more of a colourful person”. 

That said, there seems to be little creative tension between 

the couple, who agree that they work well together: “We’ve 

got similar tastes – we discuss colours – but I tend to paint,” 

says Jane. “And I tend to sketch out ideas,” adds Rob. 

Back to the dog’s bathroom (the nickname is very much 

tongue-in-cheek): “Much of the woodwork is by our friend 

Michael, who’s a retired woodwork teacher. He’s done a 

lot of these surfaces and details. The artwork is by Michele 

Rossi, one of our designers at Stylorouge. The people in the 

images are all Italian friends of his.” Rob adds that he 

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master bedroom, as one might expect, has a large en suite 

with marble-topped bath and decent-sized walk-in shower. 

“The shower is in an old stairwell that we uncovered 

when doing building work,” says Rob. The couple’s 

French-style, upholstered bed was from an antique shop 

in Lewes, while the brightly coloured patchwork day bed 

was created, bespoke, for Jane by Squint in Shoreditch. 

On the wall, and perfectly paired, is an equally 

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It houses all my junk really; hairdryers, bits and bobs.” Next to the shelving is 

an original Biba poster from the 1970s, the pendant lamp is handmade by Jane 

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House of 

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and glass light over the dining table is by Lindsey Adelman 

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Four matching large rectangular 

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This page: Lighting has been a important consideration for Zoe in every area of the house. With high ceilings throughout the house, 

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next to the rear wall of steel-framed windows and looking 

back and forth between the garden and the kitchen/ 

dining area, I can confirm it was all worth it. 

And I’m not surprised to hear that several of Zoe’s neighbours 

have already made enquiries to ask if she could do something 

similar to their houses and at least one is already in progress. 

“I have got a lot of projects for my interior design company, 

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Which has made all the extra investments that make 

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including the Robert Langford brass and antique mirror 

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interiors were her thing. “It dawned on me that it was the 

architectural element of the course that interested me the 

most and since childhood I had been designing gardens and 

interiors for my parents. Then, when I first left uni and was 

working for a charity, I met a woman who was an interior 

designer and realised that was what I should be doing.” 

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This page: On her husband’s request, Zoe created a master 

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– from Sweetpea & Willow – and luxurious bedside tables from 

Robert Langford, lined in velvet. The lights are by Astro Lighting 

experience she has found invaluable. “It is so great to 

understand the intricacies of kitchen design – fitting to 

make the most of the space, incorporating the electrics and 

plumbing – not just choosing fabrics and colours. My designs 

always start with the kitchen; it’s the wow factor now.” 

This particular kitchen has that and more, with bold charcoal 

grey cupboard doors, with a mottled satin finish, designed to 

look like polished concrete, set off by light-coloured worktops 

– which was where she spent a large chunk of the budget. 

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cupboard doors as they so often are in social kitchens, to 


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tap are all chrome, the door and drawer handles 

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are brass. Was it deliberate? Yes. “Mixing metals 

doesn’t bother me.” Hurrah! I feel vindicated. 

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polka dots on a soft grey background. Zoe had the 

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social hub, but slightly removed,” and, “I chose bar stools with 

backs for comfort. They work, because when friends come over 

we always seem to eat up there, we rarely use the dining table.” 

Heading back to the sitting area, I notice the lovely chest of 

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to the side entrance and is a great for making open spaces work, 

without lots of stuff lying around. “You need it for gubbins… 

That area, next to the outside side door, functions as a hallway, 

with the cloakroom for coats in the built-in cupboard opposite.” 

Looking towards the garden, Zoe tells me that the 

windows are from Fabco Sanctuary, giving the Crittall 

look – less frame, more glass – at a more accessible price. 

I find myself taking a particular interest (see above) in how 

the curtains are hung here, using a wave system, recessed into 

the ceiling. “It means there is no bulkhead above the window.” 

Looking out, I comment on the fabulous giant palm 

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a yucca and it was here when we bought the house. At 

first I was, ‘That is coming down immediately!’ but now 

I love it. I’ve got it uplit, so it looks beautiful at night. 

“There is a whole lighting system in the garden – I am 

obsessed with lighting – the steps are lit, the plants in the 

border on the left are lit, there are box lanterns on the walls 

and strings of white festoon lights hung around.” 

Heading back inside, Zoe’s lighting obsession can be

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seen again in the amazing light over the dining table, which 

is by Lindsey Adelman, and the three over the island, which 

are from Buster & Punch (which is where I bought my light 

switches – by this time I am feeling practically related to Zoe). 

Heading up to the ground floor – on the Unnatural Flooring 

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points out another of her pro-decorator details. “The walls in 

the basement are Little Greene ‘Slaked Lime’ and ‘Slaked Lime 

Mid’ on the woodwork. On the upper floors, that combination 

is reversed, so there is the same two colours throughout the 

house, which creates a calm and flowing atmosphere.” 

That feeling is also very much created in me by 

the master bedroom suite, which is a masterpiece of 

boutique hotel décor – as requested by Zoe’s husband. 

“My husband was my client and he said, ‘I want a hotel 

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The room is brought together by the beaded panelling 

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The bedside tables with drawers are from 

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Once again, Zoe has taken great care with the 

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What particularly attracts my attention, of course, 

is the heading on the curtains – which are the same 

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they stack neatly at each side when the curtains are 

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a large shower stall and all the fittings – including 

the wall lights – are brass. “I always put in a wide 

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6 SOW A MEADOW 

Explore flower-filled meadows 

11 WILD AT HEART 

Insight into two garden 

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12 SHAPE IT UP 

Interestingly shaped plants 

15 A TASTE OF THE EXOTIC 

Examining orchids 

17 ROOM OUTSIDE 

The best of sheds 

19 

Transform 

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19 WHERE THE WILD 

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Nurturing garden wildlife 

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20 THE BEST OF 

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Plants that can live both 

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Sow a meadow 

With many options to choose from, 

Jo Arnell talks us through the basics 

A 

dreamy meadow full of poppies, cornflowers and 

ox-eye daisies is a lovely thing to behold, but 

perhaps more fantasy than reality in the countryside 

these days – and to bring us down to earth still further, a 

patch of cornfield annuals is only one type of wildflower 

meadow. Natural meadows can be a complicated tapestry 

of wildflowers and to mix it up even more, since meadow 

gardening became a thing about 30 years ago, a diversity 

of relaxed, romantic and pictorial, or faux meadows have 

appeared to inspire and confuse us. If you have a patch of 

spare ground, would like to encourage wildlife, or just want 

to relax your mowing regime and fancy growing some flowers 

among the grass, there will be a meadow scheme to suit you. 

Annual cornfield meadows 

Meadows were once just a part of the rural landscape, a 

taken for granted backdrop symbolic of summer in the 

countryside. Traditional regimes in hay meadows and 

crop fields allowed for poppies, cornflowers, and other 

annual flowers to flourish, as removing the hay/corn 

each year kept the soil less fertile and stopped the grasses 

becoming too dominant. Sheep or cattle were allowed on 

to graze after the fields were cut, trampling seeds down 

into the soil as they did so, and the cycle continued. 

The intensification of agricultural practices has lead 

to the disappearance of cornfield meadows. Aside from 

the use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides, 

it is also common for follow-on crops to be sown in the 

autumn-winter wheat, oilseed rape, or green manures like 

clover and vetches. This means the traditional rhythms 

that the flowers fell into line with hundreds of years ago 

have been disrupted and as a consequence most have 

disappeared, or have been relegated to the field margins. 

In recent years field edges have been extended, wildlife 

corridors have been instated and many farmers are doing 

their bit for biodiversity. While this is fine for perennial 

plants and some meadows, it won’t help the cornfield 

annuals. This also explains why many of us can’t grow 

annual wildflower meadows successfully; we aren’t making 

hay and we don’t have enough sheep roaming our gardens. 

You’ll be relieved to hear that there are ways to replicate 

an annual meadow without resorting to ancient farmland 

practices and renting livestock, but, even so, establishing 

a mini meadow containing cornfield annuals is not always 

an easy task. Wildflowers have adapted to thrive in difficult 

conditions and in poor soils. Our garden soil is often too 

rich for them and our lawn grasses too dominant. You 

can strip off the lawn and re-sow with a meadow mix, 

which will contain more delicate grass species and a mix of 

wildflowers (some of which will be happy in your space, 


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depending on your soil type and aspect). You may well get 

a good rate of germination in the first year, but if you want 

to make sure that annual wildflowers will grow again, they 

must be allowed to set seed in the autumn, so be patient 

and wait until the end of July or beginning of August 

before cutting. Leave the cut top growth on the ground 

for a few days to encourage seeds to disperse, then rake it 

up and remove to ensure that the soil fertility stays low. 

Perennial wildflower meadows 

A perennial is a plant that has a lifespan of more than a year 

or two. It will keep reappearing (in theory) each spring. 

Many of our native perennial wildflowers have gradually 

turned into cottage garden favourites such as Geraniums 

(cranesbill), Foxgloves, Achillea (yarrow) and Aquilegia 

(columbine). These plants will manage in meadow situations, 

but again the grass will out-compete them if it’s not carefully 

managed. Perennials don’t germinate as readily from seed 

as annuals, so a good way to start a perennial meadow is 

by planting young plug-plants grown in modules. These 

will establish more reliably and should flower in their first 

or second season (depending on initial size and vigour). 

Perennial meadow plants flower around midsummer and 

so the meadow can be mown in early spring, then in late 

summer and early autumn once the flowers have faded. 

Yellow Rattle 

There is a way of preventing the grass from out-competing 

meadow flowers by growing a plant called Yellow Rattle 

Main image; Pictorial meadow in Jo’s garden Left: butterfly on 

Verbena bonariensis Below: Cornfield annuals 

(Rhinanthus minor). This little plant is partially parasitic 

on grass and will weaken it, allowing wildflowers a 

foothold. Most meadow mixes now contain Yellow 

Rattle seed, but it’s worth seeking out locally produced 

seed that will be regionally adapted. It is an annual, best 

sown in the autumn, or planted as plugs in spring. 

Pictorial Meadows 

A pictorial, or faux meadow, like those seen in the Olympic 

park in 2012, uses non-native annuals and short lived 

perennials to create a relaxed and wafting meadowy look. The 

principals are broadly the same – you need to make sure that 

any grasses are sparse and won’t swamp the delicate annuals, 

or just use flowers and don’t include any grass at all. April is 

a great time to sow a pictorial meadow, as seeds of plants like 

Cosmos should germinate directly once the weather is warm 

enough. To be on the safe side it is worth sowing a few of 

the less hardy varieties as plugs to plant out once the danger 

of frost is past, but this will make the process more labour 

intensive. A wide range of annuals can be used to make a 

pretend meadow; when we grew one a few years ago at one 

of my courses, I bought a few packs of cornfield annuals 

and mixed in seeds of other commonly available annuals. I 

put them all in a bucket with some sand prior to sowing – 

they need to be sown sparingly and the sand helps to spread 

them out when you’re broadcast sowing by the handful. 

You’ll need to prepare the ground; remove all weeds and 

make the soil ready by raking it to a fine tilth (it should look 

like crumble topping). Scatter seeds over the surface of the 

soil and then rake over lightly. It won’t matter if you tread 

on it a bit – just as the sheep in the stubble fields press 

the seeds into the ground, it’s important that the 

 

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seed is in contact with the soil. Within a few weeks it 

will be looking green with new growth and should burst 

into meadowy splendour by early July. Cut the meadow 

once the flowers have faded and set their seed, remove 

the top growth once the seed has dispersed and is frost 

tolerant, hardy seeds will germinate again next year. 

You may want to top up with more of the more delicate 

plants and weed out the thugs after the first year. 

The New Perennial Garden Style 

A wild ‘prairie’ style can be achieved by growing ornamental 

grasses such as Miscanthus, Stipa and Calamagrostis instead 

of meadow grass and mixing in late flowering perennials. 

Daisy flowers – Asters, Heleniums and Rudbeckias – work 

well, nectar rich Sedums and tenacious plants that would be 

thugs in a more polite border, such as Persicaria, Crocosmia 

and Phlomis, will spread to create great drifts or waves of 

colour. The advantage of using ornamental grasses is that 

they look good all through the winter, especially when back 

lit by the low sun, with the seed heads of the perennials 

silhouetted against them. This style of gardening works best 

on a large scale and is becoming popular in parks and larger 

spaces, as it is relatively low maintenance – the plants all 

get a severe haircut in the spring and off they go again. 

Weeds 

We tend to forget that many of our wildflowers fall into 

this category. Weeds are troublesome in our gardens because 

they’ve developed to survive in very difficult conditions out in 

the wild, competing with each other for survival. When they 

gatecrash into our gardens, they can’t believe their luck and 

so romp about in the rich soil, bullying our dainty garden 

centre plants and taking over. Eradicating them calls for 

vigilance, but this is harder in a semi-wild meadow situation, 

so it pays to remember that they are a wonderful resource 

for wildlife and that a few weeds in your meadow will add 

a bit of authenticity – a useful thing to say to visitors… 

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Annuals suited to 

meadow situations 

They will like sunny, free-draining positions 

and most are summer flowering 

Annual poppies – grow either the field poppy, 

Papaver rhoeas, or the opium (P. somniferous). If 

they like your conditions they will spread around. 

Often pops up when ground is cultivated. 

Cornflowers – available in a range of pastel colours 

and one really dark maroon cultivar, but the blue 

form is the most beautiful. Will self-seed. 

Marigolds – cheerful orange daisy flowers, really 

easy to grow and another happy self-seeder. 

Amni majus – a tame Cow parsley-type 

flower; tall, with large white lacy flowers 

Orlaya grandiflora – another umbellifer, 

delicate umbels of white, shorter than 

Amni majus and not as invasive. 

Larkspur – the annual Delphinium available in 

several shades of blue, mauve pink and white. 

Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist) – 

prolifically self-seeding, with ferny foliage and 

attractive seed heads, as well as flowers. 

Cosmos bipinnatus – an easy half-hardy 

annual (not frost tolerant). Tall daisy flowers 

in white and shades of pink. It has good, 

ferny foliage and lasts well as a cut flower. 

Cleome spinosa – an unusual tall half-hardy 

annual, sometimes called the spider flower, 

as the flower is somewhat spidery. 

Top: Cornflower ‘Black Boy’ Above: Hampton Court Flower 

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Sunflowers – available in colours other than yellow – 

this well known hardy annual makes a tall and cheerful 

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Wild at heart 

How have designers been encouraging wildlife back 

into the garden with wildflower planting? 

WILDFLOWER MEADOWS 

“Creating a wildflower meadow in your garden is 

a lovely way to ‘soften’ the space and to encourage 

wildlife diversity, such as bees, butterflies and birds, 

and is a positive way to help the natural environment. 

Since the second world war over 95% of wildflower 

meadows have disappeared. Lost ancient meadows 

can’t be replaced, but we can try to redress the balance. 

Few people knew more about Meadow 

gardening than Christopher Lloyd. He said 

‘To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight. 

It is alive and teeming with life, mysterious, 

dynamic and seemingly out of control’. 

Troy Scott Smith softened the look at Sissinghurst 

recently too with meadow flowers sown in the spaces 

around the perimeter and even in the car park. 

King John’s Nursery at Etchingham have created 

floriferous wild flowers in their Rose Garden. 

As a garden designer, I have also included 

areas of meadow, even in some smaller 

projects. Knowledge of soil and aspect is 

crucial to the choice of suitable plants.” 

Kate Ball Garden Design kateballgardendesign.co.uk 

Wildflower gardens 

“As we know, our birds, bees and wildlife are in decline. A lot of garden 

flowers are bred for low-maintenance and therefore not always good 

for our insects and wildlife. Introducing wildflowers into your garden 

encourages more species of insects and birds. Wildflower gardens 

are low-maintenance and look wonderful. Sow wild seeds in lawns, 

borders, window boxes or containers in autumn or spring. The poorer 

the soil the better. I recommend the following seeds and plant plugs: 

Foxgloves, Red Campion, Ox Eye Daisies, Lesser known Knapweed, 

Field Scabious, Native red Clover. Corn Cockle, Common 

Vetch, Wild marjoram, Honesty, Cornflowers and Poppies 

Not only do wildflowers look great in your garden, you are 

doing something positive for the environment too.” 

Jo Chater Garden Designs chaterdesigns.com 

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All images: Ferula communis 

Shape 

it up... 

Sue Whigham makes a 

statement with unusual 

colours and shapes 

Well, the usual deluge hasn’t 

happened today. Perhaps 

spring is definitely on 

its way. Actually, I think it is and 

so do the bumblebees. I saw a huge 

one collecting pollen from the 

flowers of that wonderful ground 

cover plant, Trachystemon orientalis 

(Abraham-Isaac-Jacob) just now. 

Things have been bursting into 

life despite torrential downpours. 

For example, treasures such as 

hellebores (and just who is snipping 

off their heads and discarding them?); 

primroses are in full swing and 

the cowslips are not far behind. 

Some crocus are still going strong, 

despite taking a battering, and spring 

treats like pulmonaria and that 

gorgeous arum, Arum italicum subsp. 

italicum ‘Marmoratum’ with its long, 

marbled, heart-shaped leaves are 

showing themselves. There’s a patch 

of them in the front garden growing 

with a silver leaved cyclamen which 

to my certain knowledge has never 

flowered. The leaves are so gorgeous 

that it really doesn’t matter at all. 

And now the only problem is that 

as it has been so wet, the borders 

are still pretty weedy and the list 

of catch-up jobs is daunting. 

There are so many thousands of 

unusual colours and shapes in nature 

that I thought the only thing to do is to 

put together a wish list of a few which 

are particularly gorgeous and special. 

I think for year round interest I would 

definitely put down the silver leaved 

Cyclamen hederifolium. They spread 

very nicely over the years and their 

wonderfully marked leaves are such a 

lovely contrast to spring flowerers. 

Then, as spring progresses, one of the 

most lovely umbellifers appears if you 

are lucky: Smyrnium perfoliatum. This 

is a flower arranger’s absolute dream; 

a biennial, smyrnium tends to have a 

mind of its own and it either goes mad 

in its ideal spot – it prefers some shade 

and grows happily in the olive groves 

of Greece, although it is described as 

an unusual native plant in the UK. 

I have seen it in the local woods 

and make an annual pilgrimage to 

specifically seek it out, but there’s 

been absolutely no sign of it in some 

years. And in a local garden where it 

is so happy, it has to be thinned out 

occasionally – well, a bit more than 

occasionally – however, not until the 

seed has been collected and redistributed 

as it prefers to be grown in situ. 

The first year it is easy to miss the 

young plants, but once they get going, 

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leaves shaped like ‘pointed shields’ 

up the stems, decreasing in size as 

they ascend. The plant reminds you 

of limey yellow euphorbias and has 

the airy habit of cow parsley. 

Another wonderful plant for unusual 

shape and form would be the giant 

fennel, Ferula communis. These are 

related to the common culinary fennel 

but belong to a different genus. Ferula 

communis are in the carrot family but 

decidedly more spectacular. Their native 

habitat is in the Mediterranean region 

and interestingly in the shrublands of 

East Africa. From a huge clump of finely 

dissected foliage a 3m-high inflorescence 

unfurls, eventually producing wonderful 

yellow umbels. It is such a stunning 

plant and insect friendly too. 

There’s a subspecies called ‘Glauca’ 

which gets to the same height, the 

difference being glaucous, bluey leaves. 

And Beth Chatto named the Tangier 

fennel, Ferula communis tingitana 

‘Cedric Morris’ after her friend, 

Cedric Morris, the plantsman who 

originally collected the seed. This one 

is slightly shorter – but still comes 

in at 1½m – the difference being the 

shiny leaves and green umbels. They 

all flower in June but are exciting at all 

times of the year; in winter spectacular 

silhouettes tower over the borders. 

If you could only grow one tree, Tilia 

henryana would surely be a candidate. 

I’ve probably written about this absolute 

favourite more than once. Henry’s Lime 

originates from China and was first 

discovered by the Irish plant hunter, 

Augustine Henry. However, it wasn’t 

introduced to the West until 1901 when 

Ernest Wilson brought it in. It deserves 

to be more widely planted and there 

are suppliers now who have them in 

stock, although it still seems to be a rare 

tree. It has huge, bristled ovate leaves 

which start the season tinged with red. 

By the autumn the ‘sea-green’ leaves 

start to turn golden yellow. Added to 

this, the creamy white flowers arrive 

late in the season providing an absolute 

feast for all manner of insects. Last 

year, I had some girls in for bed and 

breakfast over a really hot weekend. 

They decided to sunbathe near the tree 

and woke to a really loud humming 

and buzzing only to see that the flowers 

were absolutely smothered with insects 

having a high old time. Including a 

few hornets if truth be known, but 

they, along with all the others, were 

so busy feasting that we didn’t disturb 

them and they didn’t disturb us. 

And of all the huge number of ilex, 

or hollies, that there are in the world 

with their myriad shapes, forms and 

habits, one of the most lovely and 

unusual is one which was discovered 

as a sport of I. ‘Golden King’ in the 

garden of Dargle Cottage, County 

Wicklow, home of Lord and Lady 

Goulding. From 12 cuttings taken in 

1976 there were enough plants to start 

selling them by 1988. In Ireland this 

plant is often called Ilex x altaclerensis 

‘Lady Valerie’ but in England it is more 

widely known as ‘Ripley Gold’. Do 

look out for it as it is so brilliant as a 

winter evergreen shrub. Its distinctively 

twisted leaves are glossy and have 

mottled splashes of a primrose yellow. 

I love the way that the Irish Garden 

Plant Society described it: ‘the variable 

beauty of these is like a soft, sweet song 

to all who have an eye for leaf form 

and colour in the wintry landscape’. 

And finally, Tibouchina urvilleana, 

the Glory Bush native to Brazil, 

a perennial on the tender side in 

this country, which is fabulous as 

long as you can give it over-winter 

protection. This winter has been so 

mild that it has survived an unheated 

greenhouse but in a ‘normal’ winter 

it would need some winter warmth. 

It makes a great pot grown specimen 

unless you live somewhere like Penzance 

in Cornwall where it can grow to up 

to 10ft in a sheltered spot outdoors. 

I think it would be marvellous in a 

sheltered, sensory garden as everything 

about it is soft to the touch. The 

stems are red and hairy and the large 

leaves, too, are hairy and textured. 

Late in the summer, it produces satiny 

reddish purple flowers which look blue 

until you get closer to them. There’s 

a variegated form with leaves edged 

with pinky red which I think needs to 

go on the ‘must have one day’ list. 

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always as tropical as you may think 

Orchids are now considered to be 

the largest family of flowering 

plants in the world representing 

well over 25,000 different species with 

many new varieties being discovered 

each year. They occur on every continent 

except Antarctica. Over 50 species are 

native to Great Britain. My love affair 

with these amazing plants started aged 

seven when my influential gardening 

granny bought me a ‘Slipper Orchid’. 

Local native orchids also helped 

fuel my passion: I vividly remember 

sneaking up in the lunch break at 

primary school to an ‘out of bounds’ 

patch of chalk downland to observe 

fabulous Bee and Wasp orchids. The 

mimicry of many orchids is wondrous. 

Since school I’ve travelled with botanical 

funding to observe orchids in the 

tropical remote Indonesian Mentawain 

Islands and the magnetic lure of the 

spell binding Orchid family led me in 

the year 2000 to the Darien Gap in 

Central America, resulting in a ninemonth 

hostage ordeal. It was worth 

it though, as I saw lots of orchids in 

captivity and survived to tell the tale! 

TOM’S TOP TIPS: 

The mass production of 

tropical orchids has made the 

Phalaenopsis (‘Moth Orchid’) the 

most popular pot plant in the world. 

Basic essential tips for your indoor orchid 

include using rainwater if possible, water 

once a week to soak the free draining 

compost, letting excess water completely 

drain through over the sinkhole before 

placing back in a well lit position, but 

not right against windows in case of leaf 

burn. Feed once a month with something 

like Tomorite – one-fifth recommended 

strength. Place your orchid in a saucer 

covered in a layer of gravel and use a 

water sprayer to mist twice a day to 

increase beneficial humidity. Never 

let your orchid stand in water. 

Be adventurous and consider 

experimenting by growing our native 

orchid varieties. In my experience 

the easiest are the “Early Purple 

Orchid”, “Common Spotted Orchid” 

and various species and hybrids of 

Dactylorhiza (“Marsh Orchids”). My 

favourite – Dactylorhiza x grandis – is 

a “Hybrid Spotted Marsh Orchid” my 

granny gave me when I was 10 years 

old and I still have it growing in the 

United Kingdom region of The World 

Garden. Full sun, good drainage and 

a soil that never entirely dries out 

are preferred. Pot culture is possible 

too, although it’s best to place the 

container in part shade during 

the hottest hours of the day. 

Top Tip for the ‘Moth Orchid’: 

When flowering is finished please don’t 

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node (notch in stem) or where the 

brown dead stem meets green. Then you 

should prolong flowering with additional 

blooms appearing from the node. 

Why not go orchid hunting in the 

South East! Wild orchids are fantastic. 

Visit richly diverse locations such as 

Park Gate Down near Stelling Minnis 

where in late May you can find the 

very rare ‘Monkey Orchid’ and the 

delightful ‘Butterfly Orchid’ or mid- 

June at Sandwich Bay where you can 

be astounded by the endangered ‘Lizard 

Orchid’, one of the best locations 

in the UK to view this species. 

Immerse yourself in the world of 

orchids and join the Orchid Society 

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shows and festivals to gain more 

knowledge about these incredible 

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origin, the vision of modern-day plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke. This year is special as Lullingstone will be 

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of three of the loveliest, from practical to posh 

The Posh Shed Company’s Gothic Shed makes quite a statement 

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To complement the surrounding Georgian 

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for the quoining around the doors and windows. 

The curved roof was constructed with traditional handmade 

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Imogen Stephens, General Manager at Merriments Gardens 

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plants. Fruit trees are amazing for nature: plenty of pollen, blossom, branches and, 

if you can spare it, fruit! They can be very easy to plant, and grow quickly.” 

Anna Feeney, spokesperson for RSPB 

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“Entice butterflies and moths with Primrose, Blackthorn, and April flowering 

native Common Dog-Violet, which all provide an early source of nectar and 

pollen. Planting or sowing Common Bird’s-Foot Trefoil, Red Clover, Common 

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also give you a boost in summer flowers that will encourage more butterflies to 

use the garden later in the year. Catering for hungry caterpillars is easy too; just 

leave grasses, Common Nettle, Common Ivy, Bramble and Dandelion to grow 

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is great for the Small Copper and thistle species are good for the Painted Lady, 

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her indoor/outdoor plant picks 

If you’re looking for plants that will 

manage to do well both indoors 

and out, whatever the weather, or 

in a shady space, there are a few star 

performers that will fit the bill. Top 

of my list is small leaved ivy, either 

dark green or variegated. Ivy is a great 

plant in low light levels and is very 

easy to train and prune into shape. 

Many houseplants will benefit from 

a summer holiday outside in the 

garden, but they will need to be 

put somewhere that’s sheltered 

and in the shade – light levels in 

even the brightest of homes are 

much lower than outside and 

leaves will scorch if the plant is 

placed in direct bright sunlight. 

Succulents, such as Echivera, Crassula 

and Aeoniums, will enjoy being 

placed on a sunny patio throughout 

the warmer months, but really don’t 

like our winters very much – they are 

adapted to dry climates, so it is the 

wet that gets to them (I’m beginning 

to know how they feel after this 

winter). Bring them into a cool porch 

in the autumn. 

There are some plants that can 

manage to live inside and in the 

garden – maybe not all of the time, 

but it is possible to enjoy a few of 

them outside of their normal season. 

Summer Geraniums – the tender 

Pelargoniums, as opposed to those 

in the borders, can be brought 

inside in the autumn and kept 

somewhere cool and bright until 

warmer weather returns. You can do 

the same with Fuchsias, Abutilon, 

Jasmine and Hibiscus. Once it 

warms up in the spring, pot them 

into fresh compost, water well and 

re-introduce them to the outside 

once the danger of frost is past. 

You can keep herbs going over winter 

if you pot up small plants, put them 

on a sunny windowsill and keep 

them watered. Most will provide you 

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Phormiums work well, the Phormium 

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Richly green and very pleasant, creating a water feature brings movement and 

tranquility to a garden design, as well as providing a haven for wildlife 

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whatever you plant around them, use 

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Josephine Fairley tracks down products with five-star eco credentials 

Not so long ago, the biggest beauty concern for most 

of us was the impact that a product might have on 

our face, body or hair. But times change – and fast: 

now, many of us are equally concerned about the impact 

it might have on the planet. Fact: although most women 

understand well that beauty products aren’t 

frivolous or fluffy try looking at it this way: 

the time we spend on our beauty routines is 

often the ONLY thing we do just for ourselves 

in the space of a day – it somehow still seems 

terribly guilt-inducing to send a jar or a serum 

bottle or a hand wash pump to landfill. 

Having banged the drum about this 

for pretty much a couple of decades (Sarah Stacey and 

I wrote The Green Beauty Bible back in 2003), I know 

better than most that it’s taken the beauty world a while 

to catch up. But I am still hugely heartened that during 

the past 18 months, many different companies have got 

in on the ‘eco-packaging’ act. Maybe they feel they need 

to be seen to be doing it, but does it really matter? At the 

“The Olay 

initiative is 

perhaps the most 

ground-breaking” 

end of the day, the result is the same: packaging that’s less 

wasteful and more widely available – and as it’s rolled out, 

also creates a positive spiral of greater eco-awareness. 

So this month, I thought I’d focus on some great initiatives 

– and bust some packaging myths. Because while it’s fine for 

companies to say ‘recycled’ on the packaging, 

we still have to separate and sort our empties 

(more of which anon). In addition, there are 

several different types of plastic – all technically 

recyclable but in reality, not always recycled 

by every council. As I know well, councils 

can be coy about sharing info on which they 

actually process and which still go to landfill 

after we’ve duly sorted them – so I encourage you all to 

contact the council which takes away your recycling and find 

out which numbers they actually process. (I do have to give 

an honourable mention to Colgate, whose Smile for Good 

Toothpaste also comes in the industry’s first recyclable tube.) 

What we really want to see is companies moving 

towards actually creating product packaging out of 

 


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recycled materials because that’s already squared the circle, 

sustainability-wise. Neal’s Yard Remedies’ familiar blue plastic 

bottles are now 100% recycled (the glass bottles and jars, 

of course, are recyclable). Cult naturals brand Tata Harper 

uses recycled glass, while Aveda – famously committed to 

the environment from the word go – now package 85% 

of skincare and haircare in 100% recycled materials. 

Taking advantage of refills, where we can, is something else 

we can do, although as with many issues, it’s not as simple as 

it looks. Because of the need for packaging to be spotlessly 

clean, for health and safety reasons, what’s mostly happening 

is that companies such as L’Occitane, Scandi make-up name 

Kjaer Weis, Soap Co., Charlotte Tilbury, M.A.C. and even 

Olay are offering minimally-packaged options with which 

to ‘recharge’ your current packaging or compact. Fulfilled 

(wearefullfilled.co) use beautiful aluminium bottles that 

not only last for longer than most, but are also refillable. 

The Olay initiative is perhaps most ground-breaking because 

this is such a big brand; just like L’Occitane Divine Harmony 

(of which I’m a massive fan), you slip the refill inside your 

existing jar. Even Dior is making an effort: no refills, yet, but 

they are eliminating the cellophane, excess cardboard and even 

the paper leaflet previously included with its luxury products. 

Faith in Nature is one of the few brands offering a proper 

refill service for a wide range of their washes, shampoos 

and conditioners, at many different locations around the 

country (look for a list of Refill Stations on faithinnature. 

co.uk). Beauty Kitchen, meanwhile, just announced the 

future rollout of a nationwide refill scheme – but for now, 

either return empty aluminium bottles bearing the ‘Return • 

Refill • Repeat’ logo using a free shipping logo downloadable 

from their website, or drop off at a Holland & Barrett store 

(you’ll also receive points on your H&B loyalty card). Even 

perfume houses are getting in on the refill act; interestingly, 

this was pioneered some years ago by Mugler with their 

‘Source’ refill stations (for fragrances like Alien, Angel, etc.); 

more recently, Le Labo and the rising star perfume brand 

Floral Street will also now refill your current scent bottle 

with the same fragrance, in the latter case at their fab Covent 

Garden flagship store; they get further green ‘Brownie points’ 

because their bottles are 100% compostable (like an egg 

box), while they spurn tissue paper, cellophane and plastic. 

But at the end of the day, we all have to take responsibility 

for not casually throwing our beauty empties in the bin. 

Most of us are pretty good at recycling baked bean cans, 

wine bottles and cornflakes boxes – but that box that came 

with your moisturiser…? The lid of that moisturiser…? 

The pot it came in…? Doesn’t happen nearly so often. 

It might seem like a teeny jar or a lid, but 

imagine the mountains that simply end up in 

landfill, every year… A salutary thought, eh? 

Here’s the lowdown on what can be recycled… 

• Glass face cream pots (Don’t forget the cardboard 

packaging it came in – and the little leaflet inside.) 

• Perfume and aftershave bottles 

• Plastic shampoo and conditioner bottles 

• Plastic moisturiser bottles Think: hand cream and 

body lotion. (Though as I’ve said, do take your 

council to task on exactly which numbers they can 

process; these teeny numbers feature on the underside 

of packaging, inside a recycling symbol, but you do 

sometimes need a magnifying glass to read them!) 

• Aerosol deodorant cans Worried about product 

‘residues’ or unsure about whether some bits 

should be binned? Follow these simple rules… 

1Rinse first Before putting plastic bottles in the recycling 

bin, if it’s easy/possible to do so, wash them using a 

bottle brush and very hot water/detergent, before rinsing. 

Love your lids Plastic caps – for instance, 

2 from deodorant cans and moisturiser bottles 

– can go in with the recycling, too. 

Remove your tops! Pump dispenser tops – for 

3 instance, on liquid soap bottles – should be removed 

and disposed of with your ordinary waste, as currently 

they can’t be recycled. (And this also means that if a 

perfume bottle has a spray attachment, this should 

be removed before recycling. If you can’t separate the 

two, alas you’ll have to put the bottle in the bin. 

Bag it up! If you tend to forget about putting beauty items 

4 for recycling in the recycling bin downstairs or wherever, 

try hanging a pretty reusable bag on your bathroom door. 

Avoid single use products If you’re using these products, 

5 for instance, single-use wipes, they can fill up the bin 

pretty quickly – which is one reason I’m so keen on muslin 

cloths for cleansing. (The other? They will lightly exfoliate 

skin each time you use one, leaving your skin noticeably 

brighter.) Some wipes are now compostable, but you’ve got 

to remember to compost them. As for single-use masks? Give 

‘em up, not just for Lent but forever because for now there’s 

nothing you can do to give that foil pack a new life. 

So keep watching this space because the 

beauty world is getting greener – and I’d say, 

a little rosier, too – all the time. 

L’Occitane 

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Some years ago, I suffered a prolapsed 

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Through contacts, I was lucky 

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“In 80% of cases 

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thighs – because their glutes were not 

working at full capacity. This meant 

they were prone to injury and were 

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on better activating their glutes, 

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very important, especially during 

walking and lifting, because they are 

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leads to injuries.” He goes on to add, 

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Exercise of 

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STEP UPS 

March up the stairs two at a time 

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Start with a couple of times 

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Sarah shares her Fitness and 

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@sarahmaxwelllifestyle 

Contact Jonathan Hockey at 

Horsmonden Physiotherapy Clinic 

01892 724377 

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with our loved ones in order to take 

the burden away from them at what is 

already a traumatic and daunting time. 

We offer a complimentary 

funeral wishes service, where you 

can complete questions around the 

type of service you’d like; music 

choices, flowers, vehicles, ministers, 

reception venue, etc... You can add 

as little or as much detail as you’d 

like and we can record and hold 

on to these details for families to 

refer to at their time of need. 

Have you seen changes in 

funeral traditions? 

We cover a whole variety of 

funerals but many more cremations 

than burials. Quite often now, 

the full service will be held 

at the crematorium, whereas 

previously there would usually 

be a church service followed by a 

committal at the crematorium. 

Funerals have definitely 

become much more bespoke and 

personalised, ‘celebrations of life’ 

that reflect on a person’s life, rather 

than simply memorial services. 

With this in mind, many more 

people are having Remembrance 

Services after the funeral rather 

than a church service beforehand. 

Do you provide services 

for ‘green’ funerals? 

Eco funerals are becoming increasingly 

popular with a view to becoming 

more “green”. Our vehicles are 

now hybrid. We have a selection of 

environmentally friendly coffins and 

caskets, made from 100% naturally 

biodegradable materials and we carry 

out funerals at natural burial grounds. 

Lodge Brothers have branches across 

Surrey, Middlesex and Berkshire, 

offering services to all religious 

denominations and they also have their 

own Civil Celebrants if a non-religious 

service is preferred. Whether choosing 

cremation or burial, a traditional 

ceremony, or something more modern 

and alternative like a natural woodland 

burial, they can advise and support. 

To find your nearest branch 

visit lodgebrothers.co.uk 

“Funerals have definitely 

become much more 

‘celebrations of life’” 


Food 

Feasts for Families 

True to the fuss-free, one-pot family-friendly 

meals she shares through her blog and Instagram 

account @annasfamilykitchen, Anna Stanford 

chooses three perfectly crowd-pleasing recipes that 

everyone should try over the Easter break 

Photographs: David Merewether 

Teriyaki Salmon, Noodle & Vegetable Traybake 

Serves 4 Prep time: 5 mins Cooking time: 15 mins 

We all know that eating oily fish is good for you – it’s brain boosting food! Whether it’s 

the smell, the flavour, the skin – or is it the bones that can sneak in no matter how careful 

you are – many children (mine included) are resistant to eating fish. Trying children with 

mild flavoured fish like cod is a good start (breadcrumb it into a goujon if necessary!) but 

this was my salmon breakthrough recipe. Cooked in Teriyaki Sauce and using a beautiful 

fillet with no skin and no bones, served with noodles, it went down a treat. 

For the Teriyaki Sauce: 

• 2 tbsp soy 

• 2 tbsp mirin 

• 1 tsp honey 

• 1 tsp chopped chilli 

• 1 garlic clove crushed 

• 1 tsp chopped ginger 

• 1 tsp sesame oil 

• 800g side of salmon or 

4 individual fillets, 

approx 175g each 

• 200g fresh rice noodles 

• 2 tsp sesame seeds 

• 200g Tenderstem Broccoli 

• 100g sugar snap peas 

• 4 pak choi 

• 5 spring onions (these can 

be either chopped or 

shredded) 

• 1 chilli, chopped 

1Lay the salmon on a baking 

sheet or in an ovenproof dish. 

2Mix together the Teriyaki sauce 

ingredients and pour it over 

the salmon. Marinate if you have 

time. If you don’t, fear not! 

3Add the noodles to the tray and 

sit the salmon on top. Sprinkle 

over the sesame seeds and roast in a 

hot oven (220°C, 200°C, gas 7) for 12 

mins, 7 mins if using individual fillets. 

4Cook the green vegetables 

according to your liking. I 

simmer the broccoli spears for 2 

mins, add the sugar snaps for 1 min 

and then the pack choi for 1 min. 

5Drain the vegetables and toss with 

the noodles around the salmon. 

6Top with the shredded or chopped 

spring onions and some of the 

chopped chilli if you like extra heat. 

 


Spring Risotto 

Serves 4 Prep time: 10 mins Cooking time: 45 mins 

Simple and full of fresh spring flavours, I often make asparagus 

risotto but decided to bulk this one out with everything green 

I could lay my hands on 

• 500g fresh asparagus 

• 2 onions, finely chopped 

• 4 garlic cloves, crushed 

• 300g Arborio risotto rice 

• 150ml white wine 

• 1.4l hot stock 

• 100g frozen peas 

• 200g frozen edamame beans 

• 45g/2tbsp grated Parmesan 

or Pecorino, plus extra for grating 

• Knob of butter 

• Fresh basil and mint leaves, 

roughly chopped 

1Snap off the woody ends from 

the asparagus and discard them. 

2Chop the bases of the asparagus 

spears into ½cm slices, keeping 

the asparagus tips. Set the tips aside. 

3Colour the onion in a pan 

with some oil for 10 mins 

before adding the garlic and the 

chopped asparagus stems. Stir for 

1 min, then add the Arborio rice. 

4After 1 min add the wine 

and let it bubble. 

5Add the stock one ladleful 

at a time until the rice is 

cooked (about 25-30 mins). 

The texture should be creamy. 

6Stir through the asparagus 

spears, peas, cooked edamame 

beans and cheese. Add a knob of 

butter and put a lid on the pan for 

5 mins. 

7Season and serve with extra 

grated cheese and a drizzle of 

oil, plus the fresh mint and basil.

Pop into COOK and discover a dazzling menu of no fuss, 

award-winning meals. Every dish is prepared by hand 

from carefully sourced ingredients, just like a good cook 

would at home, so everything looks and tastes homemade. 

There’s everything from canapés, quiches, curries and 

cakes, to pavlovas, pies and some new recipes for April, 

created especially for Easter get-togethers. Almost 

everything cooks straight from frozen, meaning you can 

spend more time in the sunshine and less in the kitchen. 

Award-winning 

meals and puddings 

Easter entertaining

Food 

Roast Loin of Lamb with Jersey Royals & Chimichurri 

Serves 4 Prep time:10 mins Cooking time: 30 mins 

Like many herby sauces, chimichurri transforms plain fish, meat and veggies into 

show stopping meals. Treat lamb loins like fillet steak – season them generously, sear 

them and don’t overcook. They are very lean and so require less cooking than you 

think, and benefit from resting. I’ve presented the dish here as a platter but it would 

work equally well individually plated with the chimichurri sauce served on the side. 

• 500g Jersey Royals 

• 600g lamb loin fillets 

(2-3 fillets) 

• 600g green vegetables of your 

choice – I used broccoli, 

broad beans, green beans 

and peas 

For the chimichurri sauce: 

• 3 garlic cloves, crushed 

• 1 red chilli, finely chopped 

• 30g fresh coriander, parsley, 

oregano and mint, chopped 

• 2 tbsp white wine vinegar (I used 

@belazu_co white condimento) 

• 80ml extra virgin olive oil 

• Juice of 2 limes 

1Blitz together all the ingredients 

for the chimichurri sauce. 

2Cook the Jersey Royals in 

salted boiling water for 15 

mins. Drain and set aside. 

3Season the lamb loin fillets and sear 

them in a hot, lightly oiled pan for 

2-3 mins. Lower the heat and continue 

cooking, turning each fillet every minute 

for 6 mins. Set them aside to rest for 

about 5-8 mins. 

4Cook the green vegetables and 

drain. They can be put into a 

bowl of iced cold water so they keep 

their colour and don’t overcook. 

5Slice the lamb. Serve with the 

potatoes and green vegetables. 

Serve with the chimichurri sauce. 

Visit annasfamilykitchen.com or follow @annasfamilykitchen on Instagram for a whole host of meal ideas 


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Wednesday 6 May, 9.30am 

Saturday 3 October, 10.00am 

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The latest school and event news from the South East 

Education 

Open days 

FREWEN COLLEGE 

Thursday 30th April 

frewencollege.co.uk 

HuRSTPIERPOINT 

SCHOOL 

Saturday 2nd May 

hppc.co.uk 

Centenary Celebrations 

One hundred years ago, Manor House 

School, now in Little Bookham, Surrey, 

began as two small classrooms in 

Sidmouth, Devon. The private day school 

for girls relocated to Little Bookham 

in 1937 and has been based there ever 

since. It now houses one of the best 

co-educational Nursery Schools in the 

area, rated 10/10 by parent testimonials, 

as well as a nurturing Prep School and 

thriving Senior School for girls. 

This September will see Manor 

House School celebrate their milestone 

anniversary and the centenary will 

be marked with a calendar of events 

throughout the academic year, starting 

with a ‘Centenary Heritage Picnic’ on 

Saturday 12 September. The event will 

be open to the public and will include 

tours of the school and grounds, live 

music, stalls themed to different decades, 

games on the lawn, cream teas and an 

extensive display of photo archives. 

manorhouseschool.org 

REIGATE ST MARyS 

Monday 4th May – playgroup 

Saturday 16th May – early years 

reigatestmarys.org 

BEECHWOOD 

SACRED HEART 

Tuesday 5th May 

beechwood.org.uk 

MANOR HOuSE SCHOOL 

Wednesday 6th May 

manorhouseschool.org 

BOx HILL SCHOOL 

Wednesday 6th May 

boxhillschool.com 

DuLWICH PREP 

CRANBROOK 

Thursday 7th May 

dulwichprepcranbrook.org 

For the Record 

Frewen College is delighted to have 

a record number of Sixth Form 

students applying to UCAS this year 

for university places. In fact, 71% of 

Sixth Form students leaving Frewen 

in 2020 have applied to study at 

university with a range of courses 

from History & Politics to Film 

Making and Sports Therapy, which 

is way above the national average. 

Hazel Lawrence, Head of Sixth 

Form, said: “This is testament 

to the hard work of the students 

and the aspirational nature of our 

Sixth Form; dyslexia is certainly 

not holding back our students!” 

frewencollege.co.uk 

An Inspector Calls 

King’s Rochester is celebrating excellent 

inspection results. When the Independent 

Schools Inspectorate (ISI) team carried 

out their rigorous routine inspection of 

standards at King’s Rochester at the end of 

January, their conclusions were summed 

up in one word: EXCELLENT! 

Nursery and Pre-Prep, Prep and 

Senior School were scrutinised for 

the quality of their work with 

pupils, academic achievement 

and personal development and 

wellbeing – and findings in 

every section were first-class. 

kings-rochester.co.uk 

PARKSIDE SCHOOL 

Friday 15th May 

parkside-school.co.uk 

MARLBOROuGH HOuSE 

Friday 15th May 

marlboroughhouseschool.co.uk 

SuTTON vALENCE 

SENIOR SCHOOL 

Saturday 16th May 

svs.org.uk 

CLAREMONT SCHOOL 

Saturday 16th May 

claremontschool.co.uk 

Heads Up 

Mr Eddy Newton has been appointed 

as the new Headmaster of Marlborough 

House. Previously Head of Felsted 

School and Chafyn Grove School, Mr 

Newton will start at Marlborough 

House in September 2020. 

Approaching its 150th Anniversary, 

the school continues to look ahead 

with an ethos based on Enjoying 

Today, Educating for Tomorrow 

and introducing the Pre- 

Senior Baccalaureate. 

marlboroughhouseschool.co.uk

Education 

Reading 

Pleasure 

Hilary Wilce emphasises how settling down 

with a good book can considerably boost 

your child’s progress at school 

Last month we celebrated World Book Day, the 

annual international event that champions reading, 

especially among children. Students were given 

£1 book tokens, and many schools got in the swing by 

organising book-based events and having pupils to come 

to class dressed as their favourite book character. 

There’s lots of fun and dressing up, but it’s all for a 

serious purpose. As the World Book Day charity points 

out it’s been known for a long time that regular daily 

reading leads to improved school performance. 

Now a new study from University College London’s 

Institute of Education has shown that what children read 

makes all the difference to their academic performance. 

Researchers looked at the books that 43,000 pre-teens 

and early teens were reading, and found that reading highquality 

books on a daily basis added up to the equivalent 

of 10% extra school progress between the 

years of 11 and 14 (often a make-or-break 

time in education). The same effect was not 

found for comics, newspapers or magazines. 

This is interesting because while 

it’s clear why all children need to 

learn to read and write, it’s less 

obvious why they need to read 

books, especially fiction. Surely, 

these days, it’s enough to 

know how to send and 

receive information? 

Why should anyone 

plough through 

Harry Potter 

or The Hunger 

Games if they don’t want to? 

On one level the answer is 

purely mechanical. Reading 

good books widens your general 

knowledge and gives you a better 

vocabulary. It thickens the brain 

cortexes, which are the 

bits of the brain 

“Researchers found 

that reading highquality 

books 

on a daily basis 

added up to the 

equivalent of 

10% extra school 

progress between 

the years of 11 

and 14” 

that handle higher order thinking, and it 

improves concentration, confidence and understanding. 

But there are other more elusive, and arguably more 

important benefits as well. Reading fiction develops 

the imagination and encourages children to understand 

situations that are different from their own, and to develop 

empathy for people in those situations. It also encourages 

what the child psychologist Margaret Donaldson called 

“disembedded thinking”, or thinking about things that 

are not related to direct experience. Through reading, 

she says, children begin to see language as a structure 

that is separate from everyday events and that in turn 

allows them to develop self-awareness and self-reflection, 

and to think better about the world around them. 

For parents who want to help their children develop 

a love of reading, there are plenty of tips on offer, from 

daily reading, to getting a library card, and 

suggesting books budding readers might 

enjoy. A very quick search online will 

throw up masses of good suggestions. 

But many children just don’t want to 

know. The lure of the screen is strong, and 

fewer and fewer children are reading outside 

school for pleasure. This decline has been 

going on for years, until now only just over 

half of all children ever read for pleasure, and 

less than a quarter do it on a daily basis. 

Even worse, children get mocked for reading. 

When a 13-year-old boy in South Shields 

recently set up an Instagram account to share 

reviews of books he had enjoyed, his classmates 

set up a group chat to taunt him, adding 

him in so he could see them calling him a “sad weirdo”. 

However, when his sister called them out on Twitter, 

the boy got 85,000 people showing support, as well as 

messages from his favourite authors and the offer of a free 

book from a local bookshop. So who won in the end? 

And it isn’t hard to know who of those involved in 

this nasty spat will go on to do well at school and in 

life – and get lots of reading pleasure along the way. 


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Co-educational 2-4 years, boys aged 4-13 years 

Next Open Morning 

Friday 15 May 2020 

Welcome at 9:30am 

or contact us to arrange a personal tour 

To register please email 

office@parkside-school.co.uk 

Tel: 01932 862749 

Built on Tradition – Embracing the Future 

Set in 45 acres of beautiful Surrey countryside with school bus routes from SW London. 

www.parkside-school.co.uk 

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for Sept 2021 

INDEPENDENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR 

BOYS AND GIRLS AGE 2½-11 YEARS 

Longacre has 

e perfect mix 

OPEN MORNING 

6th May 

9.30-12.00 

longacreschool 

@longacreschool 

To attend please telephone 01483 893225 

or email admissions@longacreschool.co.uk 

Hullbrook Lane, Shamley Green, Surrey GU5 0NQ 

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SING! 

DANCE! 

ACT! 

Musical Theatre Summer Workshops 

Performers who join us for our 5-day summer workshops are totally wrapped 

up in a wonderful world of musical theatre fun, learning songs and scenes 

from different musicals with the aim of putting together a demonstration 

performance for friends and families on the final day. The workshops are 

suitable for ages 6-18 and is a perfect way to spend a week of the summer 

holidays! Performers are given the opportunity to learn new techniques, build 

confidence, meet like-minded people, and work as part of a team in a fun, 

creative, safe and professional environment. 

Please note that places are limited. 

LCA OXTED 

Oxted School, Eden Hall 

Monday 10th - Friday 14th August 2020 

10-4pm Each Day 

£105pp 

Performance on the Friday! 

CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION 

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What’s On in April 

What’s on in April? The truth is 

not a lot! With public places being 

closed, events cancelled, and staying 

home now being the best advice 

we can give, we are switching up 

our What’s On pages. We would 

like to focus on what you CAN do 

(with a little help from your friendly 

neighbourhood internet). Please stay 

safe indoors, and we look forward 

to being able to bring you more 

events and outdoor activities soon. 

FAMILIES & CHILDREN 

Audible 

For as long as schools are closed, 

audible has opened its doors wide 

with a completely free online 

library of stories, as read by a host 

of wonderful narrators and famous 

actors. The books available are in 

six languages and with options 

for all ages and literary tastes. You 

could join Rachel McAdams to 

read Anne of Green Gables, let 

Thandie Newton introduce you 

to Jane Eyre, or tour Wonderland 

with Scarlett Johansson. 

Entry: Free 

stories.audible.com 

The Maths Factor with 

Carol vorderman 

One for parents who did not sign 

up to be maths teachers. Carol 

Vorderman’s website is usually £2 a 

week, but to support learning from 

home it is now free! It’s matched 

to the National Curriculum for 

children aged four to twelve and 

has daily lessons from Carol herself, 

a games centre and some great 

rewards systems to get kids enjoying 

and taking pride in maths. 

Entry: Free 

themathsfactor.com 

National Geographic 

for Kids 

Facts, quizzes, games and 

competitions galore. This website 

will keep young minds busy for 

hours while teaching them too. 

Plus they have a page of primary 

resources with downloadable 

supplies that are aligned with 

the National Curriculum. 

Entry: Free 

natgeokids.com 

Mondays & Thursdays 10am 

Ruth’s Little Kitchen 

Learn to cook and bake via 

livestream to Surrey’s own, Little 

Kitchen HQ. Ruth is an awardwinning 

baker and cooking 

instructor who will be teaching 

basic skills for all ages with 

something new each week. Follow 

Ruth on Instagram 

(@RuthsLittleKitchen) and turn 

on your notifications so that 

you don’t miss out on her virtual 

workshops, every Monday and 

Thursday at 10am. 

Entry: Free 

ruthslittlekitchen.co.uk 

Health & Wellbeing 

Thursdays 6pm 

Sarah Maxwell’s Online 

Classes & Courses 

Because so many people are 

struggling mentally and physically, 

our wellbeing guru, Sarah 

Maxwell, is offering up her time 

for free. Visit her Facebook page 

(@sarahmaxwelllifestyle) where 

she has a free weekly wellness 

programme, for all levels. These 

sessions aim to give you 20 

minutes of gentle exercise that 

can be done at home, to help 

with the immune system, stress 

management and anxiety. Plus, 

take a look at the Bookfit app 

for live classes which have been 

cut in price or Sarah’s website 

for online courses. Surrey 

Homes readers can get 60% off 

the courses with discount code 

C19, which you can then keep 

and use when you choose. 

sarahmaxwell.com 

Anxiety UK 

It is important to take care 

of ourselves mentally just as 

much as we do physically in 

these difficult times. If you are 

dealing with any anxiety right 

now, Anxiety UK has a number 

of online resources including 

webinars, online support groups 

and useful links with information 

to help you feel more at ease. 

Entry: Free 

anxietyuk.org.uk/coronanxietysupport-resources/ 

MUSEUMS & 

GALLERIES 

The Hannah Peschar Sculpture 

Garden, Black & White Cottage, 

Standon Lane, Ockley RH5 5QU 

The Hannah Peschar 

Sculpture Garden 

The Hannah Peschar Sculpture 

Garden has started posting videos 

of the wonderful pieces that 

they are currently exhibiting, on 

Instagram. The Sculpture Garden 

is a stunning forest filled with 

beautiful and innovative pieces 

that are framed and enhanced by 

nature. We can hopefully look 

forward to the garden re-opening 

at the end of April (subject to 

further government guidance), but 

in the meantime you can watch 

these videos or explore the website 

and look forward to experiencing 

it in person at a later date. 

instagram @hannahpescharsculpt / 

@vikki.leedham.art / 

hannahpescharsculpture.com 

The Mummy at 

Maidstone Museum 

Maidstone Museum’s website is 

filled with interesting information 

about its many artefacts but a real 

stand out is the star of Maidstone 

Museum’s Egyptian collection: 

the only adult human mummy 

in Kent, The Lady of the House, 

Ta-Kush. Watch a video of what 

happened when she got a scan at 

the KIMS hospital, learn about 

mummification, and see how 

Liverpool John Moores University 

made a facial reconstruction to 

see what she really looked like! 

Entry: Free 

museum.maidstone.gov.uk/ 

explore/collections/ancientegyptians/ta-kush-lady-house/ 

The National Gallery 

An amazing opportunity to take 

an online wander round the 

National Gallery with Google 

Street Maps. Immerse yourself in 

Renaissance masterpieces from 

Northern Italy, the Netherlands, 

and Germany, including works by 

Titian, Veronese, and Holbein. 

Entry: Free 

nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/ 

virtual-tours/google-virtual-tour 

British Museum 

Online Tour 

London’s iconic museum’s 

wonderful online tour. Enjoy 

hundreds of artifacts free from 

the crowds. Easy to navigate by 

continent and historical era. 

Entry: Free 

britishmuseum.withgoogle.com / 

britishmuseum.org 

Music & Theatre 

Fri 3, Fri 10, Fri 17 

April, all 7pm 

The Royal Opera House 

The Royal Opera House will be 

streaming free online broadcasts 

of both ballet and opera, as well 

as musical masterclasses and 

sneak-peaks behind the scenes. 

Productions including Acis and 

Galatea (Friday 3), Cosi fan tutte 

(Friday 10)and The Metamorphosis 

(Friday 17), will all be offered 

on demand for free via their 

Facebook and YouTube channels. 

Entry: Free 

roh.org.uk 

Thursdays from 2 Apr 7pm 

National Theatre 

at Home 

Starting with the online premiere 

of One Man Two Guvnors 

featuring James Cordon, National 

Theatre’s youtube channel is 

streaming much-loved National 

Theatre Live productions every 

Thursday, which will then be 

free to stream for seven days. 

Entry: Free 

nationaltheatre.org.uk / 

youtube.com/ntdiscovertheatre 

Broadway HD 

So many Broadway shows have 

been cancelled, but if you missed 

out on a show (or are just looking 

for something to do), BroadwayHD 

is currently offering a week long 

free trial. The streaming service is 

ad-free and has all sorts of brilliant 

productions available to stream to 

TVs, phones, tablets and computers. 

You can see Al Pacino in Salomé, 

Orlando Bloom as Romeo, Cathy 

Rigby’s Peter Pan, to name a few. 

Entry: Free for 7 days 

broadwayhd.com 


This April we'll be very busy with our children's 3-day cookery clubs as well as 

our Easter Treats half day workshops with our resident patissier, Lucie Bennett. 

Bread Masterclass 

We are also very excited to be hosting 2 days of Bread Masterclasses with 

former Head Chef of River Cottage, Andy Tyrell. Andy will be covering how 

to make a classic Country Loaf, an 80% Rye Sourdough and a European bread 

(e.g. Ciabatta, Foccacia or Baguette), all of which will be made using a form of 

Sourdough. 

Small Plates and Tapas Masterclass 

At the end of the month, our Head Chef, Ollie Thompson will be back to host a 

very special Small Plates and Tapas Masterclass to teach you the art of small 

sharing plates and Tapas-style dishes, as well as a number of delicious sauces, 

flavoured butters and dressings to make your dishes stand out and your 

tastebuds sing! 

Maximum of 8 students per class. Call or email for more info or go to our 

website for details. 

www.thelimpsfieldcookeryschool.co.uk. 

01883 818383 | thelimpsfieldcookeryschool@gmail.com 

BE WISE 

WHEN YOU ADVERTISE 

Everyone wants to get what they paid for. Surrey Homes is independently 

verified by ABC, because we want our advertisers to know they’re getting the 

exposure they’ve been promised. 

ABC. See it. Believe it. Trust it. 

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29 April - 3 May 

RHS Garden 

Wisley 

GU23 6QB 

Purchase direct from 250 of the very best makers in the UK 

Demonstrations • Food village • Live music 

9am – 6pm Wednesday – Saturday • 9am – 5pm Sunday 

(Garden open until 6pm daily) Admission to garden also gives 

admission to the craft fair. Free entry for RHS Members. 


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Online Learning 

Duolingo 

Think of the current situation is an 

opportunity to learn a new language. 

There are lots of online resourses 

available to do this, but Duolingo 

is one of the best free options. It 

keeps things light and enjoyable 

with game-like achievements and 

tasks that you can dip into everyday. 

The app is also free and there is a 

free 7 day trial for Duolingo Plus. 

Entry: Free 

duolingo.com 

START WRITING FICTION 

Discover the rituals and 

approaches that successful 

fiction writers use, learn about 

character creation and increase 

your observational awareness, 

on this online course from the 

Open University. No previous 

writing experience is necessary, 

this course if recommended for 

over 16s, and lasts eight weeks. 

Entry: Free 

futurelearn.com 

Masterclass 

Famous faces and world experts 

use their experiences to teach on 

MasterClass. This one is for if 

the free classes available online 

at the moment just won’t quite 

do, and you fancy learning... 

acting with Natalie Portman? 

No? Perhaps photography with 

Annie Leibovitz, conservation 

with Dr. Jane Goodall, interior 

design with Kelly Wearstler? 

Why not use this time to learn 

something, from business skills 

to ballet, mixology to magic. 

Entry: £14.17/month for 

unlimited classes (billed anually) 

masterclass.com 

GENEALOGY – 

RESEARCHING YOUR 

FAMILY TREE 

Delve into a six week online 

course designed to help you 

develop an understanding of basic 

genealogy techniques and how to 

communicate your family history. 

Entry: Free 

futurelearn.com 

What’s On in April 

Open Learn 

The Open University’s Open 

Learn website has hundreds of 

free online courses, to boost your 

employability and earn one of 

their statements of participation, 

give you resourses for a course 

you are already studying or just 

help you learn something new. 

Entry: Free 

open.edu/openlearn 

Volunteer 

NHS VOLUNTEER 

RESPONDERS 

If you have extra time there are 

many ways you can help the 

NHS in their time of need. The 

NHS has set up NHS Volunteer 

Responders, forming an ‘army’ 

of volunteers who can support 

the 1.5m people in England 

who are at most risk. You can 

deliver supplies to those who 

are self-isolating, transport 

patients who are medically fit 

for discharge, help pharmacies 

get their medication deliveries 

or chat on the phone with those 

who are at risk of loneliness as a 

consequence of self-isolation. 

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Jane Howard’s 

Fables from 

the Farm 

It’s April, Easter is upon us, and that of 

course means we’ll be busy lambing 

The rams went in with the 

ewes on Bonfire Night and 

five months later, April Fool’s 

Day, the lambs start arriving. And 

every year we look forward to it, 

completely forgetting the sleepless 

nights, tricky births, inevitable 

losses and endless amounts of 

washing – it’s a messy business! 

When the rams went to work in 

the autumn they wore a harness 

known as a raddle which holds a wax 

crayon on their chest. This means 

that when they serve a ewe they leave 

a large coloured mark on her rump. 

By changing the colour of the crayon 

every 10 days or so – from orange 

to blue to black – we can tell the 

order in which the ewes will lamb. 

We also had them scanned after 

Christmas to know whether they 

were carrying singles, twins or triplets 

and marked them accordingly. Not 

only is this useful information at 3am 

when you have to investigate a tricky 

birth, which could involve four, eight 

or, heaven forbid, 12 legs, but it also 

means we can stand by to sort out 

the adoptions that will be necessary 

every time we have a ewe give birth to 

triplets. And in 2020 we’re expecting 

more triplets than ever. Busy times. 

As she only has two teats and not 

enough milk for three, it’s unfair to 

leave Mum with triplets as she will be 

constantly bothered by 

ever hungry lambs and 

the weakest of the three 

won’t get enough and 

won’t thrive. So when 

we get a triplet delivery 

the Coopers 24 hour 

adoption service (that’s 

me) swings into action. 

Soon after the birth, 

and you probably only 

have a window of about 24 hours, a 

different ewe expecting a single will 

hopefully start to lamb. Strangely 

enough you always need to keep 

a closer eye on these, as singletons 

can grow much bigger in the womb 

than the twins and triplets and 

are often the trickiest to birth. 

Anyway, back to the adoption. Once 

the singleton birth becomes very close, 

you go to the pen with the triplets and 

select the strongest one. You then need 

to tie its front legs together and then 

its back legs together so it struggles to 

stand – just like a newborn – and then 

you deliver the singleton into a bucket 

to collect all the gloop, cover the by now 

“It’s unfair to 

leave Mum with 

triplets as she 

will be constantly 

bothered by ever 

hungry lambs” 

rather confused triplet in it and hey 

presto show the new mum her fantastic 

pair of freshly born wet twins. As long 

as the adopted lamb doesn’t kick off 

its shackles and walk off in disgust, 

the mum is usually fooled and it’s 

one of those happy ever after stories. 

All the lambed ewes remain in the 

shed for a couple of days to allow 

everyone to get to know each other, 

a process known as “mothering up”. 

Then we spray the same number on 

the sides of all the 

new family so if any 

lambs get accidentally 

parted, you just pick 

them up and wander 

round the field with 

the lost no. 53 lamb 

seeking the matching 

53 ewe. Sheepshaped 

Pelmanism. 

We only have 80 

ewes and are always in awe when we 

pass a field of ewes with three-figure 

numbers on their sides. Impressive 

stuff. So how we chuckled when a 

London friend suggested we start ours 

off at 101, so they too had three digit 

monikers. Interestingly, the Victorians, 

who had smaller flocks and no spray 

paint made up their sticky dye with red 

ochre and animal fat and used letters 

A to Z to identify the ewes as this 

required less of the precious dye than 

numbering them 1 to 27. How clever. 

Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on 

Instagram @coopersfarm 


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