Garden News | April 2024
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Garden News | April 2024

April is probably one of the most exciting months of the year for me. The promise of regrowth and renewal that spring brings as everything emerges from the horticultural winter slumber, April certainly promises to be an exciting month!

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Spring Photography Competition 
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Spring Photography Competition 

Calling all budding photographers, enthusiasts and nature lovers. We invite you to take part in our Spring Photography Competition.

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Garden News | March 2024
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Garden News | March 2024

Renewal comes in the form of new planting, new bulbs flowering and rejuvenation of our plant collection in the form of pruning. More on that later.

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RHS Member Offer Blooms at Historic Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens 
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RHS Member Offer Blooms at Historic Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens 

Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens, the iconic Grade I listed woodland gardens in Lower Beeding, West Sussex, has entered an exciting new chapter in its partnership with the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), with new plantings and garden attractions for 2024.

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Garden News | February 2024
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Garden News | February 2024

Time really does fly when you’re having fun in the garden at Leonardslee! February is the month when we can start to think about saying goodbye to winter and welcoming in the signs of a hopeful new spring.

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Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens Winter Guide
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Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens Winter Guide

With stunning winter scenery, exciting seasonal events, opportunities to volunteer, and an unforgettable dollhouse exhibition, Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens gives visitors ample reasons to brave the cold.

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Garden News | January 2024
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Garden News | January 2024

As winter wraps its cool embrace around the grounds of Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens, I’m delighted to bring you the latest updates on horticultural wonders and the seasonal transformations taking place in our gardens.

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Garden News | December
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Garden News | December

we enter the final month of 2023 that doesn’t mean that the garden at Leonardslee has any less to offer our visitors or that there isn’t plenty for me and the rest of the garden team to be getting on with right now.

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Garden News | November
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Garden News | November

November may be synonymous with Bonfire Night but it’s the fireworks of the horticultural kind that excite me! As well as the obvious highlights of Acer Walk with its many Maple trees in full show.

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Rhododendron ’Leonardslee Shot Silk’
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Rhododendron ’Leonardslee Shot Silk’

We have recently received a Certificate of Internal Registration from the RHS to certify that our application to officially register our ‘Rhododendron Shot Silk’ has been officially accepted.

This beautiful plant was hybridised by Sir Edmund Loder here at Leonardslee, with the resulting hybrid plants becoming a favourite of his.

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Forest bathing beneath Sussex’s green canopy
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Forest bathing beneath Sussex’s green canopy

Deborah Nicholls-Lee come to experience Forest Bathing with Emma Weaver,having my first experience of shinrin-yoku, or ‘forest bathing’. Read how Deborah enjoyed this workshop.

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Garden News | October
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Garden News | October

After our world-famous spring displays, autumn is often seen as Leonardslee’s next-best season for sheer wonder and visual beauty.  The colours start to deepen and get richer but there is also still enough warmth and moisture in the soil for growth to continue for much of the month

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