Ashdown Forest Living July Issue

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July 2013

Working Horse Trust Wild Medicine The Plant Hunters Ashdown Forest Cycling Mums the Word Recipe

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Index: Support Local Business

Dear Residents, Welcome to our July Issue.

Animal Care

This issue is packed with articles of local interest from ‘Wild Medicine’ to ‘Plant Hunters and the Great Gardens of Sussex’.

Architects

Plus our usual, stalwart monthly features that we hope you’ve come to enjoy.

With plenty of local businesses throughout (with new ones coming on board), hopefully you can find all the services you need for your home, garden, etc. Thank you for supporting local businesses when you can.

If you’re a club, community group, local charity, etc. please drop us a line if you need extra promotion.

Plus if there’s a subject that you think will be of local interest to residents in the Ashdown Forest area, please drop us a line.

Fingers crossed for some lovely weather this July!

Tally & Chris Ashdown Forest Living To advertise call 01342 300152 info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk Working Horse Trust The Phoenix Comic Page Stone Ness Walled Garden Wild Medicine Recipe Rangers Report High Weald AONB Ashdown Forest Cycling AA Milne Film Exciting News Mums the Word Staying Safe Online Quick Quiz Plant Hunters Gardening Tips Care to Volunteer Rudyard Kipling Whats On

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Stone Garden Services

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Gardening Services

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Levade Systems

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Blinds/Curtains/ Interiors 21 19 17 19 19

Car Scuffs Sussex 35 Nutley Motor Services Ltd. 35

Care

Ground Based Guttering 25 SA Hancock Ltd.

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Allzones

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Local Carpenter/Joiner

15

Leon Miller Electrical Services

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Amber Electrical Contractors

27

Quinn Electrical Services 29 James Denman Electrical Services

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Live in Care 5 Sussex Health Care Homes 39

Compte Electrical Services 27

Carpet Cleaning

Maintenance

Benjamin Morphew Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning 29

MARs Joinery & Carpentry 15

Children/Education Greenfields School Summer Music Course Blackland Farm French Tuition German Tuition

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Cleaning Blackmaids Ovenaid Cleaning ad Supreme Ovens

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Computer Computer Studio Dog Walking/Pet Sitting

Hammerwood Refurb &

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Food/Drink

Ace Plastering

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AI Plumbing

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EPH Plumbing & Heating 37 Baileybridge Construction 35 Mid Sussex Timber

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John Bloom Plumbing

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Templar Property Service 23 MRM Plastering

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MM Roofing

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Kitchens Bespoke

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Locksmiths TJN Locksmiths

Health/Wellbeing/ Fitness

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Lotte Berk Fitness Studio 9 Healing Craniosacral Therapy 5 Family Chiropractic Clinic 15

Pippingford Estate

21

Horsted Keynes Business Park 7

Garden/Landscape/ Exteriors Richards Fencing 31 Sargents Tree Services

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Kitchens

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Wiltshire farm food

Although this publication does not vet advertisers, a number of complaints will mean that businesses will be barred from further advertising.

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Solicitors 31

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The Working Horse Trust:

Protecting the TRADITIONAL DRAUGHT HORSE

The Trust is devoted to safeguarding the future of our Heavy Working Horse breeds for progeny. In establishing a working farm and undertaking a wide range of conservation activities, the Trust aims to demonstrate just how valuable these horses can still be in a rural economy and show how they can make a positive contribution to the good husbandry of our environment.

With twenty odd years of charitable support for the dwindling numbers of draught horses in this country, there is now only three months left for the Trust to find a new home.

The hunt for new premises began last October when it was announced that the Nevill Estate at Eridge was no longer to be the Trust’s home. Somewhere suitable is yet to be found for its fifteen horses – most of them having been born and bred at the Estate.

“Despite some very kind offers, we haven’t found anywhere in our immediate vicinity that could house all of our horses, vehicles and equipment”, said Trustee Jo Ambrose, “We are now having to look further afield but our biggest challenge is to find somewhere that is still readily accessible to our

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established volunteer team, whilst at the same time providing the land and buildings that we need to carry on operating efficiently. It is proving much harder than we imagined, September 30th is coming round far too quickly, so it is a very anxious time for us.

“To see so many years of hard work and dedication, by what must amount to well over 100 volunteers, come to an end doesn’t bear thinking about. Nor does breaking up our ‘family’ of horses who have been together nearly all of their lives. We would settle for emergency short-term accommodation at this point, we might even have to ask friends and colleagues if they could house a horse or two while we try to find a more permanent solution. We are determined to keep going, but we do desperately need a lucky break which we’re very much hoping is round the corner.”

If anyone can help the Trust in any way could they please contact: Jo Ambrose on 01892 750105 or email enquiries@theworkinghorsetrust.org

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TO THE PEOPLE OF EAST GRINSTEAD The Phoenix Comic presents:

Garen Ewing’s ‘The Secret of the Samurai’ Extract

Blackland Farm Activity Centre, West Sussex

Secrets of the Samurai Competition In an EXCLUSIVE short story from East Grinstead author Garen Ewing, Julius Chancer the historical research assistant and antiquarian adventurer (character from Garen’s Rainbow Orchid comic book series) embarks on a brand new expedition.

Julius becomes embroiled into the deepest depths of Samurai history when it is discovered that a new museum exhibition, believed to be the authentic Daizen Armour, is a fake. Can Julius discover the true location of the armour and return it to its rightful place at the Yamada Shinjiro family shrine?

It’s a matter of Samurai honour. This exciting tale (see extract on left) appears in issues 75,76,77 of the Phoenix Comic.

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Email answers to: info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk, or enter online at www.ashdownforestliving.co.uk.

Closing date: 31/7/13.

The Phoenix Comic is a 32 page full colour weekly comic packed with 100% original stories, mind bending non-fiction and fiendish puzzles. From deep serialised adventures to one off tales, from epic action to funnies, The Phoenix is suitable for both boys and girls and unlike most publications contains NO adverts. Outlets include Waitrose, see website for more details, www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk.

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Stone Ness Walled Garden th Open Day July 13

However, your route surely should first take you down the path to the lower garden past Nessy the lady scarecrow. Make your way along each of the terrace beds in turn: Rhubarb, Comfrey, and Asparagus at the bottom, sweet corn, cucumbers, courgettes and squashes – then the carrots and parsnips – and above that a wide bed of potatoes, tomatoes, and a few strawberry plants which the squirrels haven’t found. Above that, onions and garlic – then beans of all sorts that we didn’t put on the slope – and at the top, some early French beans (we like growing beans!) which are to be followed shortly by cauliflowers.

Stone Ness Walled Garden offers social and therapeutic horticulture to local people with learning difficulties and mental health issues.

It will be a warm sunny day... (!) and we welcome those of you who are interested in what we do here.

As you enter to your left see the orchard with its pears, apples, damsons and the fig. Pinch and savour the fragrance of the rosemary hedge as you wander down the path.

To your right, the 4 sloping beds: young Christmas trees in the first – then netted rows of calabrese, cabbages, sprouts and broccoli. Next, the lines of pea sticks (the mice may have had the peas, but you get the idea) – and two giant wigwams of runner beans, grown carefully from seed which we harvested and saved last year. The final sloping bed is a triumph – the strawberry patch – now securely caged against all pests except ourselves. We may still have a few strawberries left by the 13th or we could take orders for jam.

Now make your way up to the potting shed and ask Phil for a hot dog. I’m sure there will be a cup of tea in the pot and home made cakes - if you are quick enough!

And next? Well, maybe just sit a while, enjoy the garden, and chat with some of our regular visitors, gardeners and volunteers or take maybe take a walk down to see the wild garden, the pond, and maybe the ponies...

We do hope you can come, between 10am and 4pm.

(Sorry, but the lie of the land means that access is impossible for wheelchairs).

We are open on the day from 10am til 4pm. For those making their first visit you will find us on the A264 between Ashurst and Langton.

Park up in the field by the road, and stroll past the bungalow, across the lawn, and down the stairway.

Our Garden is through the heavy old green door at the bottom of the stairs.

- Jean Burgess

Crowborough Healthy Walk is looking for walk leaders The Conservation Volunteers are recruiting volunteer walk leaders for a soon to be set up healthy walk in Crowborough.

Healthy Walks are part of the nationwide Walking for Health scheme which aims to get people healthier and happier by

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providing free, short and easy led walks.

A free walk leader training day will be held on Friday 2 August in Crowborough from 9.30am – 4.00pm. No previous experience is required, just a friendly nature and the availability to lead the

Crowborough healthy walk on a regular basis. To find out more about becoming a health walk leader or to book a place on the training, please contact Paula Hubens, TCV Healthy Walks Project Officer on 07740 899559/ p.hubens@tcv.org.uk.

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At Wiltshire Farm Foods, we offer a choice of 250 tasty dishes, all frozen and delivered free by the local team, ready to store in your freezer and cook in minutes. Dishes start from as little as £2.95 and there’s no commitment.

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Wild Medicine

taste suggest, is a medicine for banishing winter gloom and enlivening the liver.

Later we learnt some simple preparations with our gathered herbs - an elder poultice for a sprained ankle, a dandelion and wild garlic pesto, and my favourite, a beeswaxy infusion of daisy and plantain that smelled delightful, decanted into tiny jars to be used as a medicine for knocks and bruises.

Wowo campsite near Sheffield Park has long been a dream for anyone looking to get back to wild nature. They recently held a Herbal First Aid day there and Jen Rouse went along to find out more: Our guide, Anna, was quick to dispel any of our illusions: today was not to be a first aid course, nor is she a medical herbalist. Instead, she wanted to impart something of the character of some common wayside weeds, to help us learn to identify them safely and make some simple home remedies for a variety of ailments.

Anna’s enthusiasm and love for the plants was infectious; as we meandered through the beautiful grounds collecting daisies, dandelions, burdock and chickweed, she told us stories about these ‘weeds’.

Just as Anna promised, we learnt a lot about the character of each plant, whose personalities she painted as vividly as if they were little people brought to life. So the resilient daisy, so quick to spring back when trodden on, is a remedy for all of life’s shocks, knocks and blows, whether physical or emotional.

Yarrow, also known as staunchweed and soldier’s woundwort, is a great remedy for cuts, and even its leaves look as though they have been shredded with a blade. Dandelion, as its sunny flowers and bitter

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All of the plants we gathered were familiar, but knowledge of their remedial properties, once commonly known are becoming obscure. As Anna talked, I recalled my grandfather putting dock leaves on my stings, and grandmother making me hot milk with nutmeg when I couldn’t sleep. They grew up eating allotment carrots, scrumping apples and coming home scratched and purple-fingered with buckets of blackberries in autumn, so for them a working knowledge of the plants around them was a given. By passing on this wisdom, enough to help heal a sting, a cut, a cough or cold, Anna is a guardian both of wild nature and the knowledge of our ancestors.

The day rounded off with a Henry David Thoreau quote brought to mind: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Jen Rouse, Spring 2013 For more information about such courses and others at Wowo Campsite visit: www.wowo.co.uk *Please note that should there be a question about it, this article does not constitute official medical advice.

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Hot cheese & salsa turnovers

Serves: 4 adults Preparation time: 10 mins Cooking time: 8 mins

This is a great idea for a quick, tasty snack that’s just a bit different. Enjoy!

What to do:

1. Mix together the tomatoes, red onion, cucumber and coriander or parsley (if using).

2. Heat a non-stick frying pan and add 2-3 drops of vegetable oil.

Add one tortilla and turn it in the pan so that its base is lightly oiled.

Add a quarter of the salsa mixture, spreading it over the surface.

Sprinkle with one quarter of the cheese and season with black pepper.

Ingredients:

3. Cook over a medium heat for 1-2 minutes, until the cheese starts to melt and the tortilla browns lightly.

2 tomatoes finely chopped 1 small red onion finely chopped ¼ cucumber finely chopped 1 tbsp fresh coriander chopped (optional) 1 tsp vegetable oil 4 soft wholewheat flour tortillas 60g hard cheese grated 1 pinch ground black pepper

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Fold in half and keep warm while cooking the remaining tortillas in the same way. Slice in half and serve while hot.

Tip 1: If you don’t have any fresh herbs, use 1 tsp dried mixed herbs instead.

Tip 2: Try using 4-5 chopped spring onions instead of red onion.

Tip 3: Fire up the filling a little by adding about ½ teaspoon of finely chopped red or green chilli - or enough to suit your taste!

This recipe has been taken from the Change4Life website

The Ashdown Forest Living has grown from strength to strength with the majority of our customers continually renewing because our advertising has proven results.

“I jumped at the chance to have an ad in the ‘Ashdown living’ wh en I heard about it. The fact that it is del ivered by the Royal Mail means it gets to all those properties in and around the Ash down Forest area that are hard to reach.

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Ashdown Forest Ranger’s Report Responsibility for managing the Forest lies with the Board of Conservators.

is led by the Director. The Clerk to the Conservators and the Conservation Officer have the responsibility 1.75 miles/3km for the administration and the conservation of the Originally set up in 1885, the Board has been Forest. We have an administrator who runs the office regulated by a series Actscross of Parliament, the(with most care) From Linton’s car of park the road Ridge andinto books the exhibitions and four Chase Rangers, recent being the 1974 Ashdown Forest There in past car park (summer only).

Walk outAct. of the rear a tractor seat onto two drivers and an estate worker. More it is stated that: recently we have asection grass 18 path and in about 50m turn left onto a ride.

Remain on a grazing officer and an assistant who looks after the sheep and cattle. There are also this gently descending ride, ignoring another that bears off It shall be the duty of the Conservators at all times as normally two work experience placements. We are far as possible to regulate right, for about 400m.and manage the forest as an fortunate to have 92 volunteers who help us to look amenity and place of resort subject to the existing rights after the forest, they are made up of volunteers who of common upon the forest and to protect such rights On both left and right are linear quarries, run the information barn and rangers and mounted of common, to protect the and foresttrees. from encroachments now filled with scrub Such rangers. and to conserve it asForest a place of quiet and natural quarries dot the landscape and area of outstanding beauty.

Therefore do get in touch with us as needed provided stone for roads. Typical heathland throughout the year as regards to Forest matters. birds such consists as nightjar, stonechat, treeCounty pipit The Board of eight East Sussex and woodlarktwo usually breed in this area and and Councillors, Wealden District Councillors Mike Yates fiveride Commoners. is alsoare a Clerk the edges in There particular one to ofthe theBoard Ashdown Forest Ranger of Conservators.

Forest staff and management 01342 823583 best places on theThe Forest (indeed in Sussex) to see, in May, the yellow flowers of the small spiny shrub, petty whin.

Launch of Consultation Draft of the High Weald AONB Management Plan 2014-2019

The ride bears left, then right through a break in the quarries and continues descending for 400m to a metalled drive (Sandy Lane) . On the left is a bowling green and ahead are the High WealdHatch Cricket The HighClub.

Weald Joint Advisory Committee is urging cricket pitch and pavilion of The Coleman’s is considered to be one of the best surviving coherent medieval landscapes in Northern Europe, with its character established in the 14th century.

The public have until 26 July to express their views on the Consultation Draft of the Management Plan for the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

everyone to comment on the Plan’s proposals.

Brian Kentfield, Chairman of the High Weald Joint Advisory Committee, said: “This locally prepared plan provides a means by which all public bodies can judge, and be judged, on their duty to have regard to the purposes of AONB designation.

However the High Weald landscape is everyone’s responsibility and this plan sets out actions that everyone who lives, works or visits the area can take to ensure that it stays beautiful”.

For more info see www.highweald.org.

The plan is a locally prepared and agreed statement of public policy for managing the area and has been produced jointly by the area’s 15 local authorities through the High Weald Joint Advisory Committee.

The plan highlights the features that give the area its special character, such as ancient woodland full of archaeological features from the Tudor iron industry, and sets out what is needed to conserve and enhance those features for the next five years.

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Ashdown Forest Cycling We know that the the Ashdown Forest is unparalleled in its natural beauty and unspoilt landscapes. For cyclists, that means a wonderful area to enjoy. The many road cycling routes offer scenery unlike anywhere else.

Cycling is a sport that many love and this area has long been a destination for some of the world’s top class cyclists.

Enter the all new ‘Ashdown Forest Cycling’. We ask founding member Andy Boyce about this new group: Who formed Ashdown Forest Cycling? It was formed by myself and a couple of cycling colleagues who are passionate about promoting cycling in the Ashdown Forest.

What was the idea behind this?

As keen cyclists we have ridden most of the country (and overseas) and feel that Ashdown Forest has

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as much, if not more to offer than so many places but it is not very well publicised. We also wanted to use our website to help promote ‘cycling friendly’ facilities in the area.

What are you hoping to achieve with the club? To bring other keen cyclists into the area so that they can enjoy the fantastic rides and scenery and also generate business for local enterprises. We wanted to create an easy-to-use website for cyclists e.g. where they can download routes and maps.

People can also share their rides with others, therefore creating a community environment. In the

future we will be organising rides led by a cyclist familiar with the landscape.

Any message to potential members? We would like to encourage keen cyclists to register on the site, it’s free of charge and we will send alerts when new routes are posted and when rides are taking place.

Businesses wishing to promote themselves as ‘cycling friendly’ can get a free listing on the website as well.

For more information visit: www.ashdownforestcycling.co.uk

AA Milne film will tell story behind Ashdown Forest’s favourite fictional son, Winnie The Pooh.

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The new biopic called Goodbye Christopher Robin, will explore the relationship behind AA Milne and his son which inspired the creation of Winnie The Pooh. It will follow the life of writer between 1918 and the 1930s and disclose details of their relationship, how they bonded over the creation of Winnie the Pooh and the impact of celebrity on their lives.

An A-list cast is being targeted and the film is due to start shooting in Summer 2014 with an estimated cost of between £6.5 million and £10 million pounds, backed by Pinewood Studios.

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Ashdown Forest Centre Announcement: On the 14th May our Friends from the Sussex Ornithological Society (SOS) tagged a male cuckoo on Ashdown Forest.

They named him ‘Sussex’ and you can follow his progress via the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) website – to follow ‘Sussex’ go to: www.bto.org. Or type in this link: http://www.bto.org/science/migration/ tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking/sussex info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk • tel: 01342 300152

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Tilgate Nature Centre Tilgate Park has it very own Nature Centre which houses a huge variety of animals from endangered species to farmyard favourites. The team at the Nature Centre also organise educational sessions for schools and groups and also run the Tilgate Nature Club for those children who love nature and the great outdoors. Conservation is also high on the agenda at the Nature Centre where many successful breeding programmes of vulnerable and endangered species have taken place.

History and Conservation Tilgate Park has had a long and varied history from the discovery of dinosaur bones through to use in the 17th century iron industry to becoming a palatial estate to being used by Sir Malcolm Campbell for flotation trials prior to his water speed world record!

When they’re big enough, place outside. The smell is gorgeous and it can be used on loads of Summer dishes from pizza to salads. Idea: the kids can make mini-pizzas with pitta-bread and use the basil they grew!

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‘My mum always told me to walk into a place as if I owned it. By that she meant to walk in with your head up and high (with) confidence. I find that’s been excellent advice. If you act as if you’re not worthy (of the job, the man, the respect), others will prey on that.

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The Plant Hunters & The Great Gardens of Sussex

By Katy Brown

An Extract from her booklet: ‘The Great Gardens of Sussex’ “Such gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful’ and sitting in the shade” Rudyard Kipling.

Why in Sussex?

One reason why Sussex boasts so many great gardens (Wakehurst, Borde Hill, Nymans, The High Beeches & Leonardslee) is that the fertile acid soil and high rainfall of the High Weald provide the ideal climatic conditions for experimentation with non-native plants and shrubs. Add to this, sheltered positions and varying micro-climates across estates and one can see the area as a veritable paradise for gardeners. But we need to look more closely at why they all developed in the latter part of the 19th century and flourished in the years before the Second World War, with the “Sussex Style” reaching a peak in the 20’s and 30’s.

All were in fact the indirect result of the expansion of the railways in the Victorian period which saw Sussex develop as an ideal place for a country estate for those who had made their fortunes in the City of London or in commerce. Such estates were perfect for relaxing after the pressures of work and for entertaining friends at the weekends. None of the owners came from the landed aristocracy; none of these estates had been given to ancestors at the time of the Norman Conquest. All belonged to families who had acquired their wealth more recently and their gardening involvements provided a relief from the city, business and public activities.

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follow from the possession of a country estate and what we see in the great Sussex gardens is not just a matter of gardens as rich men’s toys but something far more significant. To explain this we need to look at the climate of the times, at the scientific drive behind the development of gardening and at the stimulus provided by the Royal Horticultural Society.

Plant Hunting The importance of plant hunting in the development of these great gardens can’t be over-estimated. If we look at the plants at Wakehurst Place, for example, we find that they come from China, Australasia, South East Asia, North and South America, The Himalayas, Russia and Alaska, and the picture is similar for all the gardens. All the garden owners supported plant hunting expeditions, Harold Comber, the son of the head gardener at Nymans, himself became a notable plant hunter and, at The High Beeches, Anne Boscawen and her husband have continued the tradition into the present day, making expeditions to Nepal and Buhtan. Tony Schilling, who ran Wakehurst Place from 1967-1991, was a leading plant hunter in the Himalayas and hence the Asian Heath Garden at Wakehurst is named after him.

When not actively involved in supporting expeditions, owners could enrich their collections by buying from the great nurseries of the period, above all James Veitch and Co. and A.Bee and Co, founded by Arthur Bulley, who also supported plant hunters with commercial advantage in view. Owners

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could also, together with their able and experienced head gardeners, engage in experimentation and propagation at home. The plants which were introduced into Great Britain as a result of such expeditions and experimentation permanently changed the nature of our great gardens.

Kingdon-Ward gave us primulas, poppies, cotoneasters and rhododendrons and his finds also included the Rhododendron Wardii. This boasts the most beautiful lemon-yellow flowers which at Leonardslee is thought to have “the finest yellow flowers in the genus”.

The Hunters

Douglas died a gruesome death when, because of his extremely weakened eye-sight, he seems to have fallen into an animal trap already containing an angry bull. Forrest, who wrote on an expedition in 1904,

It took a special type of person to be a plant hunter in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Reading of their exploits and the hardships they endured is enough to make one question their sanity, though their obsessive enthusiasm for the task is never in question. They risked severe physical hardship, faced dangers from local inhabitants and terrain, fell prey to illnesses which often permanently weakened them and shortened their lives, not to mention being separated from their families for long periods.

And on top of this they faced additional difficulties in bringing home their precious plants, seeds and photographs. Heavy photographic plates were often damaged in transit and plant material rotted or died during long sea voyages.

David Douglas (1799-1834), George Forrest (1873-1932), Ernest ‘Chinese’ Wilson (1876-1930), and Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) are men to whom the world of gardening and horticulture owes an enormous debt. Douglas introduced the fir which carries his name and which became an important feature of British gardens, providing wind breaks and shelter for more tender plants. Forrest, described in his obituary as “the greatest plant hunter of his generation”, is remembered by the range of plants, including primulas and outstanding rhododendrons, which bear his name.

Wilson brought home the beautiful Magnolia sinensis, the impressive Primula pulverulenta and the much sought after Davidia involucrata or handkerchief tree.

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“I am heartily sick of China and everything Chinese, but will have to stick to my guns”, was only 59 when he died. Kingdon –Ward suffered from malaria and the unwelcome attention of leeches. Wilson writes amusingly of waking at 2am during his 1903 expedition to find his blanket missing and, “…pulling it over me again I disturbed four halfdrowned chickens whom my thoughtless men had tied to a post alongside my bed. These chickens, resenting the loss of the blanket, tried to follow it and succeeded in nearly blinding me with mud”.

But he may be thought to speak for all the hunters when he writes that such hardships, “..count for nothing, since I have lived in Nature’s boundless halls and drank deeply of her pleasures.

To wander through tropical or temperate forest with tree-trunks more stately than gothic columns, beneath a canopy of foliage more lovely in its varied forms than the roof of any building fashioned by man…where does the hardship figure when the reward is such?”

It was to the inspiration and determination of men like Wilson that the great gardens owed so many of their outstanding plants and shrubs, not least the richly coloured rhododendrons, camelias, azaleas and magnolias which are such a delight to visitors.

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Gardening in July Article by Michael Dongray,

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Fruit and Vegetables

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Pinch out side shoots of tomatoes & feed on a regular basis with a liquid tomato feed.

Sow seeds of Cabbage, spinach, turnip, endive, mustard, cress, lettuce, parsley and radish.

In hot weather raise the blades on the lawnmower to a higher setting. If it is not too dry apply a quick acting summer feed.

Train espalier and dwarf fruit trees. Protect from birds.Potatoes may need a final earthing up.Keep an eye out for pest and disease.

Treat Apple Scab. Harvest onions when the leaves turn yellow and flop over.

Roses Dead head roses unless being grown for their display of hips in the autumn. Watch out for greenfly, rust, mildew and blackspot.

Spray on a regular basis being sure to follow instructions on the box.

Shrubs Prune back shrubs such as philadelphus and deutzia as the flowering season comes to an end.

Miscellaneous Dead head flower stems of lupins to encourage further flowering. Give a first clipping to hedges of beech, hornbeam, privet and leylandii. Lift, divide and replant overgrown clumps of bearded iris. Dead head annuals to keep them flowering.

CARE to Volunteer? Lindfield/Scaynes Hill Area www.careinhaywardsheath.co.uk So what do we do? We offer help in four different fields, but we are not an Emergency Service, or trained carers and we are not an alternative taxi service! These areas are: • Transport, - we take clients to the shops, to medical and dental surgeries and to hospitals, when alternative means are not available.

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Rudyard Kipling, Literary Giant of Sussex

By Alexander Ayton, extracted from her book ‘Sussex Remembered’

Kipling lived in Burwash, East Sussex for many year of his life. As the village is a stones throw from the Ashdown Forest area and because of Kipling’s legacy we felt it fitting to include this article about his life: Rudyard Kipling, the foremost writer of his time and creator of The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories, countless poems, short stories and novels, had a passion for Sussex, his home from 1897 until his death in 1936. Born in India in 1865 to English parents, he was educated in England like many children of his background at the time. As an adult – slight, just 5ft 6in, balding and short-sighted with a strong cleft chin and amoustache – he developed a glittering international writing career in Lahore, South Africa and Vermont where he spent the first four years of his marriage.

In 1887, after a family rift with his brother-in-law, he left Vermont for England to settle in Rottingdean on the Sussex coast with his American wife Caroline Balestier – Carrie, then pregnant with their son John – and their two young daughters, Josephine and Elsie.

For three guineas a week, he rented The Elms, a ‘marine residence’ overlooking the Green at Rottingdean. Kipling knew the village well. Over the years, he had often stayed with Georgiana – Aunt Georgie – and her husband, the painter Edward Burne-Jones in North End House nearby. In addition to the Burne-Jones family, his cousin, the future prime minister Stanley Baldwin, had married Lucy, the eldest daughter of the Ridsdales who lived in the Dene by the Green.

In his autobiography, Something of Myself, Kipling described the close proximity of the Dene, North End House and the Elms where ‘One could throw a cricket-ball from any one house to the other.’ He also described ‘packing farm-carts filled with mixed babies – Stanley Baldwin’s and ours – and despatching them into the safe clean heart of the motherly Downs for jam-smeared picnics. Those Downs moved me to write some verses called ‘Sussex’ .

‘Sussex’ became the unofficial anthem of the county.

Other great works such as Kim, Stalky and Co., the Just So Stories and his poems ‘Recessional’ and ‘The Absent-Minded Beggar’ were written at the Elms, where the chalk cliffs and the peace of Rottingdean inspired him.

A family man, he was delighted when his children went swimming using ‘Trunky’ Thomas’s bathing machine or fishing off Magnus Volk’s outlandish contraption, the ‘Pioneer’, the stilted passenger carriage of the ‘Daddy-Long-Legs’ railway moored at the pier head off Rottingdean. He was also a ‘maniac’ motorist, venturing into the Sussex countryside in ‘his very own’ locomobile, nick-named the Holy Terror or Coughing Jane, driven by his chauffeur and the inspiration for ‘Steam Tactics’, written in 1902.

The Kiplings enjoyed an enviable lifestyle spending

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trifling affair on the Nile’. Other improvements were converting the two oast houses once used for hop and beer brewing into staff accommodation.

Bateman’s. The author’s study is on the first floor on the left.

the winter months in warmer climates. In 1898, the family spent four months in Cape Province, SouthAfrica in TheWoolsack, the Dutch colonial home given to them by Cecil Rhodes. In 1899, they set off once again, taking Carrie, Josephine and Elsie on a trip to America. After a rough crossing, tragedy struck in New York when Kipling and his eldest daughter Josephine, contracted pneumonia. Kipling pulled through but Josephine, aged just six died, leaving her parents bereft. Josephine, Kipling’s fairhaired ‘little American’ and the ‘best beloved’ child, was the apple of her father’s eye. After her death, Elsie, his younger daughter wrote later: ‘A light had gone out that could never be rekindled.’

On their return to Rottingdean, Kipling was haunted by Josephine’s spirit all around him.

This, and the local publican of the White Horse running doubledecker horse buses packed with Brighton trippers hoping to glimpse their hero in his garden, was the last straw.

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steam-driven locomobile to take a train to Etchingham and a ‘fly’ – a horse drawn carriage – to view Bateman’s in Burwash, East Sussex.

On entering the house, Kipling ‘felt her spirit – her Feng Shui – to be good’. However, the owner had just let it, and they were obliged to wait until the tenancy was up before buying it for £9,300.

On 2nd September 1902, Carrie, Elsie and John moved to Bateman’s and Kipling joined them the next day. The Jacobean house in the Dudwell Valley was built in 1634. It was inaccessible, prone to flooding and lacked modern facilities such as a bathroom, running water upstairs or electricity but it was exactly what Kipling wanted – ‘a good and peaceable place’.

After his experiences in Rottingdean, Kipling was keener than ever to preserve his privacy, eventually acquiring more than 300 acres through 14 separate conveyances. Carrie’s office had a porthole overlooking the hall, enabling her to monitor visitors to the house. There was no telephone, as Kipling preferred to send urgent messages by telegram or telephone from the Burwash post office. He burned his old papers in the stone fireplace, much to the dismay of his friend and American publisher Frank Doubleday. But Kipling was intensely private, declaring: ‘No one’s going to make a monkey out of me after I die.’

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Saturday 13th July

Coffee morning in aid of Hospice in the Weald.

Refreshments will be served plus home-made cakes and savouries, preserves, raffle, bric-a-brac and books. Come early to avoid disappointment. Call: 01892 664036. 10am to 12 noon. All Saints Church, Chapel, Green, Crowborough.

The annual Fairwarp Village Fete: Live band, Last Of The Wild, Maypole dancing, the In-Step Majorettes, a dog show, an Arts, Crafts and Produce tent, Childrens races, an escapologist (if he’s free) a Barrel of Booze, Grand Draw, Bouncy castle, books stall, bric-a-brac and much, much more! All profits go to the village hall, green and local causes. Village Green, 2-5.30pm.

Saturday 6th July Summer Concert: Haywards Heath Sinfonietta.

Piano Concerto No 22 Mozart, Soloist Jennifer Kirk, Symphony No 2 Schubert, The Banks of Green Willow Butterworth, and more at The Methodist Church, Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath at 7:30pm, Conductor: Sundari Heller LRAM. Admission free – retiring collection. All proceeds to The Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Haywards Heath Methodist Church.

Saturday 6th July St Michael & All Angels Church, Withyham Church Fete will take place at the Withyham Cricket Ground.

The Fete will be opened at 2pm.

Saturday 6th July Scaynes Hill Open Gardens Six village gardens open this year in aid of St Augustines church annex.

Tickets and maps from any garden or the church. Teas available at the church, 1:30 to 5:30pm.

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th July Sussex Food Festival. Enjoy an Afternoon tea in our beautiful carriages - stationed in one of our platforms.

Bouncy Castles, and the popular Marco the Magician for children. The Bluebell Band will be playing in the afternoons. 10am to 5pm. At Horsted Keynes station.

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Saturday 13th July Crowborough Horticultural Society Annual Show at the Town Fair, Goldsmith Grounds. At 2pm, free entrance.

Saturday 13th July Wivelsfield Village Day. Lots of events for children and families: Harris’ traditional funfair, bouncy castles and slide, a climbing wall, free circus skills & hula hooping, a miniature steam railway, vintage tractors & mini club cars, and face painting. In the main arena there will be some displays by clubs & organisations such as a junior football match by Mid-Sussex Blues; dancing by Wivelsfield Primary School, a tug-of-war competition; lots of fun children’s races for all ages; and a pantomime & space-hopper donkey derby races, live music, beer & pimms tent, space-hopper racing, dog show, etc. 10am – 4:30pm on the village green. Free Car Parking and Free Entry. For more info: www.wivelsfieldvillageday.org.uk or phone Barbara Harty 01444 470024.

Sunday 14th July RSPCA South Godstone Animal Centre, Fun Gala Day: Entertainment, Music, Fun Dog Show,Games, Stalls, , BBQ, etc. 10:30am – 4pm. Eastbourne Road/ A22 South Godstone . Admission: Adults £3, Children 5-16yrs £1, Free Parking.

Friday 19th July - Saturday 20th July

Sussex Family History Group: Steve Cordery – Ten things to do with your electronic family tree.

Meetings normally held 2nd Monday of each month at Luxford Day Centre, Uckfield. Refreshments available. 7.15 for 7.30pm start.

Uckfield Art Trail - At the Civic Centre, Uckfield 3pm – 9pm (Fri) 9am – 7pm (Sat). Admission free. An exciting showcase of arts and crafts on display and for sale with the opportunity to meet the artists and makers. See uckfieldarttrail.co.uk or call Lorna Holdcroft on 07940 558497.

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Saturday 20th July

Forest Row Sports Ground Association Fundraiser.

Bar, auction and live music provided by Plane Crazy.

Forest Row Village Hall. Join us for a fun evening, tickets £5 in advance from Robbie Divall 01342 823855, book early to avoid disappointment.

Uckfield Art Group Summer Exhibition. On display will be original paintings, drawings and unique greeting cards. Free Parking. Luxford Centre, Library Way, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1AR. Doors open 10am - 4pm. For more information contact Annie on 01825 765021.

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Sunday 21st July The Rude Mechanical Theatre Co. presents: Harlequin Goes to the Moon. The play, set in 16thC Florence, moves between flat out hilarity, sweet romance and savage satire in its retelling of a very old story. It follows the antics of two innocent young things, Catalina and Federico, who see each other across a crowded piazza and fall in love! The Croft, Hartfield at 7.30pm.

Saturday 27th July The Colemans Hatch Summer Show: Attractions include horticultural, craft and cookery classes for adults and children, Children’s fancy dress and entertainment, Adult and Children’s Tug of War, Dog Show, etc. At 12.30pm on at Shepherds Gate Farm, Colemans Hatch (Opposite the Church). Call 01342 823506 or see www.colemanshatchhs.co.uk.

Saturday 27th July The Uckfield Singers will be performing their showcase Summer Concert: Gotta Sing. This will be held in The Civic Centre, Uckfield on the at 7.30pm.

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Tuesday 30th July “The English Garden in Sussex/Kent” - a talk by Nigel Phillips for the Crowborough Horticultural Society at the new Community Centre in Pine Grove, TN6 1DH. At 7:30pm.Visitors welcome. For further details see www.crowboroughhorticulturalsociety. org.uk Until Friday 2nd August Dave Brooker Photography Exhibition: Field House Dental Practice Gallery, High Street, Wadhurst, TN5 6AQ, Open 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm Friday , 8.30am to 12.30 pm 2nd and 4th Saturdays.

Exhibition 19th July - 7th August Ashdown Forest & Beyond - The pastel paintings of Juliet Murray. Meet Juliet with her pastels on Tues 23rd & Tues 30th July 10am - 2pm. Original local landscape paintings, prints and cards will be displayed for sale in the large cafeteria area and adjoining room. Come & have a cup of coffee and a browse. Crowborough Centre, Pine Grove TN6 1FE, weekdays only 10am - 4pm. For further information 38 • July 2013 • Ashdown Forest Living

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The Uckfield Festival, Friday 13th – Sunday 21st July (see www.uckfieldfestival.co.uk) Here are just some of the events: Friday 12th July 7:30pm, Uckfield’s Most Talented at the Weald Hall, Uckfield Civic Centre. Uckfield FM is delighted to present a showcase the finest musical talent in the area in an event which promises to be one amazing night. This joint celebration, to launch Uckfield’s festival week and to celebrate Uckfield FM’s tenth birthday, guarantees musical diversity and performances which will entertain, appeal and even surprise. Tickets: Adults £7, Children £5, Family (2 adults + 2 children) £20. Available from Gale and Woolgar, High Street and online at uckfieldfm.co.uk.

Saturday 13th July 10 am Fun Dog Show. Bring along your dog, waggiest tail, most beautiful eyes etc. Entrance £1 per class.

1.30 pm. Grand Parade from Uckfield Community Technical College arriving at Luxford Field at approx.

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Spiritus, Spiritus Jam supported by Battacarda from Heathfield Community College have developed their theme around their link with Ghana. It is 10 years ago UCTC in conjunction the Festival Association produced.

6pm Uckfield Community Orchestra Concert at The Luxford Centre, Library Way, Uckfield. Music by Beethoven, Purcell, Bach, Holst and Khachaturian.

Free Refreshments. Retiring Collection for local charities. info@uckfield-community-orchestra.co.uk the first ever dance, music and drama evening with students from Ghana.

Sunday 14th July 11am Warm up, 12 noon start Electric Car Grand Prix at TR Fastenings Car Park, Bolton Close TN22 1QW – 20 schools with teams of around 12, competing with the Kit Cars they have customised, organised by UCTC in association with Uckfield Rotarians. Burgers, Ice Cream, Cakes and drinks available. Prize Giving approx. 4pm.

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