News in Brief – December 2023
Tandridge leisure centre boost Tandridge District Council has been awarded £197,000 towards keeping its swimming pools and leisure centres open.…
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Green Tips: Make your own mulch!
Multiple wheelbarrows of mulch have made their way to Church Gill: our new magical wooded area filled with wonderful specimens…
Green Tips: Grow your own dye garden
Autumn is here, and we are excited to encourage visitors to include even more colour in their lives by revealing…
Review: The Sphere of Light at The Festival Theatre at Hever Castle
By Azra Wilkinson All credit to the cast of this engaging play for giving such a committed performance despite a…
Review: The Wimpy Kid Show at The Festival at Hever Castle
By Theo Brookman, 12 The dreadful weather didn’t make an impact on the quality of the Wimpy Kid Show, which…
Autumn colour at Hever Castle
Visitors to Hever Castle will be able to learn how to create a dye garden, discover the funghi that grow…
Green Tips: a new term in the garden!
That back-to-school energy is here with us again, and it definitely feels like a new term in the garden. My…
Green Tips: Wildlife gardening
The willowy verbena are dancing in the late summer breeze in August and there’s a change in the air. If…
Green Tips: Herbaceous perennials – save the bees
It’s July and the flowers of the herbaceous borders, from the tall coneflowers and the exuberant daylilies to the open-faced…
Letter from the editor – July 2023
I think it’s safe to say now that summer has finally arrived! I’ve been using my garden as my office…
Retelling the story of the Boleyn women
A career as an art historian, a husband with Tudor connections and many years of reading and research provided novelist…
The shows must go on at Hever Festival
A falling branch has caused irreparable damage to a stage at the Festival Theatre at Hever Castle, but shows due…