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Looking Good in May
May is a busy month in the gardeners' calendar. Here in Sussex, a rather cool north westerly is blowing even though the skies are blue. However spring is well and truly here: the swallows have arrived and you can hear their charming bird call, the ap...
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What's looking good in summer?
After a miserably cold and wet beginning to the year, West Dean is now bathed in glorious sunshine and the gardeners have changed their fretting from endless rain to endless watering as it's been so dry recently. The month of May revealed just over t...
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Student Contributors 2012
Francoise Collanges completed the graduate & postgraduate diplomas and an MA degree in conservation studies applied to clocks. She passed university degrees in History of Art and preventive conservation (Paris-Sorbonne IV and I) and worked as a c...
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My short course experience: drawing inspiration from trauma
Regular short course student Julia shares her experiences getting creative at West Dean, where her inspiration comes from and why West Dean was a game-changer for her. Julia will be continuing her creative journey on the Foundation Diploma in Art and...
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Student Contributors 2014
Lori Covington was a graduate diploma student in the Conservation of Ceramics and Related Materials at West Dean. In June of 2013, she completed the Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, after 6 months as a residential student. Lori has a BA in psy...
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Welcome to West Dean Gardens in 2019
Who would have thought that after the heat and lack of rain of summer 2018 that we almost reach our average of 1100mm by the end of the year? Rainfall is a fascinating business and it's so interesting to see how differently it falls year on year. The...
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What's looking good in summer - Part 2
Weather has not been such a hot topic for ages with the drought of June and July making us rather nervous as we watched the skies for any sign of rain. The trials of winter and early spring have become a distant memory although the fact that the Rive...
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What's looking good in spring? Part 1
Welcome to West Dean Gardens! A soggy December saw 2017 rainfall almost catch up to our 30-year average of nearly 41 inches, which ensured that the River Lavant started flowing in the Gardens right at the end of 2017. Story goes that the flow might b...