Ashdown Forest Living July Issue

July 2012

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Š Front cover photos taken by Dave Brooker are available in postcard form in various locations in and around Crowborough and the Ashdown Forest: This & That, Field-Buss Newsagents, Value Essentials, Crowborough Post Office, Village Stores at Five Ash Down, The Ashdown Forest Centre and more.

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Index: Support Local Business

Dear Residents, Welcome to the July issue, summer has arrived at last!

Accountant/Book-Keeping Sacred Tree Surgery & Rural

This month is jam packed with things we hope you’ll find interesting from how we can help the plight of the bees to Olympic dreams of 1936 in our local history notes.

TNMC Business Services

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Estate Management

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AA Drives

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Levade Systems

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Trencher/Mini-digger

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Home Maintenance Services/Products

Architects David Fry

Art

There’s another walk and we have our fingers crossed they’ll be plenty of sunny Summer days during which it can be put to good use.

Juliet Murray, Cogcrafts Concepts

Last month we asked for any local residents with pastimes or hobbies who wished to share these to get in touch with us. We’re pleased to be able to publish an article about Van Gogh written by art lover Ian Morgan, of the village of Ashurst.

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As we always like to support local charities and community groups, please get in touch if we can assist with publicity.

And, of course, thank you for supporting our many local businesses.

Have a great Summer and Good Luck to our Guys & Gals of team GB!

Keep this directory handy for when you need it

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Contents

Cleaning

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Black Maids

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Ovenaid

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Computer

Crowborough Conservation

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Recipe

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Health/Wellbeing/Fitness

Ashdown Forest Walk

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Lotte Berk Fitness Studio 13

Quick Quiz, Sudoku

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Atlas Profilax

Pocket-money ‘Mystery Photo’ competition 14 Pocket-money ‘Alfie’ Competition

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Gardening as Therapy

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Van Gogh

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Local History Notes

22,24

Bee article

26

Whats On

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Gardening Tips

30

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

Ashdown Forest Living Notice: Ashdown Forest Living prints various articles, features, and advertisements. Although these appear in Ashdown Forest Living, any opinions expressed are the opinion of the author, these are not necessarily the opinion of the publisher. © Copyright Ashdown Forest Living 2012. The contents of this publication are written specifically for our readers, no part may be reproduced elsewhere without express and prior permission.

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Weightloss Rachel Ricketts

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Fishing Pippingford Coarse Fishery 9

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Colour Variation in British Reptiles & Amphibians

By Barry Kemp, Crowborough Conservation Society During the amphibian breeding season frogs, toads and newts migrate to their traditional spawning ponds. This year Crowborough Conservation has received quite a few enquiries about oddly coloured frogs seen in garden ponds in Crowborough.

In all of the cases so far these have turned out to be Common Frogs. The Common Frog is probably the most familiar amphibian in Britain. It belongs to the group of frogs known as “Brown frogs” because its background colouration is usually brown. Despite this, colour variation can be surprisingly diverse, ranging from reddish to yellow. Even orange coloured Common Frogs have been recorded across southern England.

They have black or brown markings on their head and body. These markings are also very varied. Usually the rear legs have dark patches which when folded at rest resemble black vertical bars. This acts as a disruptive pattern which helps to disguise the outline of the frog from predators.

Common Toads can also be frequently found in Crowborough, usually in larger ponds. They don’t tend to be as diverse in colour as their cousins, the Common Frog. Male toads tend to be a uniform brown or grey whilst females can be more mottled.

Worldwide, amphibians are extremely diverse in colour ranging from vivid blues to reds and yellows. Colour plays an important role in their survival, not just for camouflage, it is also used as a warning to predators of the presence of toxins in the skin. This ‘colour-warning’ is known as aposematic colouration.

In fact some non-toxic amphibians use colouration to mimic other toxic species.

In the reptile world, chameleons and a few other species of lizard can change colouration dramatically.

Most amphibians can also change their skin colour by concentrating or dispersing various pigments in their skin, but the process is much slower than that of Chameleons.

This ability to change colour acts as a camouflaging mechanism, helping them to escape predation by blending in with their surroundings. Like reptiles, amphibians are cold blooded so by lightening or darkening their skin they can also adjust their body temperature.

The toad in the photograph is extremely unusual. Found near Eridge, it is a juvenile Common Toad. Approximately 50 other toads were recorded at the same site, all with the usual colouration. At this time, it is not known if this red coloured toad is a result of genetics, environmental effects or deficiencies in the chemical processes undertaken to produce its skin pigments.

In this case it seems unlikely that it’s colour will act as a deterrent to predators as no other similar coloured amphibian exists in Britain. Unless these toads eventually change colour they may not survive long.

Many amphibians have a combination of cryptic and aposematic colouration. This is common in several newt species, including the Great Crested Newt. They are cryptically coloured on top, being black or very dark brown, but if caught by a predator will adopt a position where the vivid orange underside of the tail, chin and belly are exposed.

To a degree all of the reptiles species found in Sussex have a varied colour range, including slow worms, grass snakes and particularly adders.

Black Adders are not uncommon in this area. Their dark colour is caused by a condition known as melanism

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Conservation Society Article Continued which is an overproduction of colour pigment. Melanistic snakes have an advantage over normally coloured snakes as they can absorb solar radiation more effectively, allowing them to be active on days that would normally be too cold for other snakes. This often leads to melanistic adders being larger than

normal. However, the disadvantage is that they are more vulnerable to predation than the usual cryptically coloured adders.

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1. Whiz the raspberries and icing sugar together in a food processor, then sieve, pressing through as much raspberry as you can with a wooden spoon.

Line a 2lb loaf tin with cling-film – it helps if you brush the tin with oil first to get the cling-film to stay in its place. Pour the raspberry sauce into the tin and freeze for one hour.

2. Quickly dip the nougat bars in water; This should allow you to peel away the rice paper (if needed). Don’t worry if not all the rice paper is removed as this will soon disappear when melted. Put the bars into a pan with 200ml of double cream. Melt over a low heat, stirring constantly and using a wooden spoon to break up the nougat into smaller pieces as it softens. After a while you should have a smooth, sticky, creamy mixture. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool down a little.

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narrower ride . Ignoring other rides, remain on the widening ride, passing a pond on the left after about 600m. The ride With Grateful Thanks to the Ashdown Forestbears Centreleft and Conservators for allowing us to side reproduce their walk leaflet. and passes along the left hand of pine woodland.

There are other walk leaflets available at the Forest Centre, Wych Cross.

In a further 150m it joins with the main ride by the A22. Turn left to return to Long car park.

Valley Garden & Water Walk – 2.75 miles / 4.5km Another walk in this series explores the area west of this car park.

A walk that starts with great views over open heath to the South Downs, then descends into the valley of Millbrook stream to the Chelwood Vachery Forest Garden and Braberry ponds.

Starting in Long car park, head south-eastwards from its southern end onto a wide ride and continue parallel with the A22 road for about 150m. Turn right onto another ride towards trees and bear left on a gently descending ride. At the junction of tracks turn sharp left and gently ascend across heathland. Cross over a tarmac drive and continue to a second drive. Turn right and follow it for 300m to reach the entrance to some houses, part of the former Chelwood Vachery estate .

One explanation (there are others!) for the word Vachery is that it is derived from the French ‘vache’ (cow) and from the practice, and right, of Michelham Priory (near Hailsham) to send cattle up onto the Forest in the 14th century.

The area was ‘disafforested’ (i.e. removed from the common land of the Forest) by a decree in 1693.

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The estate became covered by woodland and in 1905 a large house and spectacular grounds were created by the new owner, banker and MP Sir Stuart Samuel.

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Turn left onto a woodland track that gently descends and bears right. After 500m pass through a gate on the right and descend to reach the stream and ponds of Chelwood Vachery Forest Garden. Follow the watercourse upstream...........

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In 1994 the Conservators acquired half of the estate comprising woodland and what is now called the Forest Garden.

The four lakes and ponds, each with a weir and sluice, were created shortly before 1910. They were all dredged in 2008 and 2009 as part of the Garden’s continuing restoration, with the support of the Vachery’s previous owner British American Tobacco.

Additionally, volunteers have cleared extensive thickets of invasive, purpleflowered Rhododendron ponticum, taking care to leave the planted species (notably R. loderi) that dot the valley landscape. The aim is to open up views beneath the canopy of mature trees, a mix of native oaks and beeches and ornamental red oaks, maples and juneberry (Amelanchier).

Halfway along, the valley is crossed by a small stream.

The so-called Gorge up the slope, shaped by limestone boulders from the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, was installed in the 1920s

by Col. Gavin Jones, a well-known landscape designer, at the behest of FJ Nettlefold whose family owned the site from 1925 until 1955.

Ashdown Forest

Ranger’s Report Monday 4th June at 10 pm we lit the

1.75 miles/3km Ashdown Forest Beacon to mark the

Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. About 200

people assembled at Four Counties From Linton’s car park cross the road (with car park. It was quite spectacular as we car park (summer only).

Walk out of the rea had a good view of the beacons at Firle Ditchling and we all enjoyed a and grass path and in about 50mthe turn left onto a fireworks.

Forest beaconride, was clearly this gentlyThe descending ignoring anoth visible from the South Downs. right, for about 400m.

As I expect you know by now if you walk on the forest regularly the sheep On both left and right are linear quarries, and cattle are out. The Forest has been now withlastscrub trees.

Such quietfilled over the monthand because of the quarries dot the Forest landscape weather which is also hampering our and work schedule.

Theroads. good Typical news is Red provided stone for heathland Kitessuch have as been sightedstonechat, over Gills Lap birds nightjar, tree pipit and Four Counties and we have been and woodlark usually breed in this frequently finding door mice nests. area and

the ride edges in particular are one of the The Nutley Historical Society ‘s Exhibition best places on the Forest (indeed in Sussex) on the King’s Standing Radio Station towas see, in May, theWe yellow flowers a geat success. estimate that of the small spiny shrub, whin. at 500 people came topetty the exhibition

the Forest Centre and large numbers of people queued patiently to get a The ridetobears thentour right through a break chance go onleft, a guided of the and continues descending for 400m to a meta Radio Station and Sussex Police’s training The Folly Bridge was built in the early 1930s. Its main use now is to ground.

Lane) . On the left is a bowling green a

After about 400m is a stone Folly Bridge. Pass through it and cross the stream by stepping-stones (or use the footbridge to the right). cross the bridleway that passes beneath it!

Continue ahead ascending steeply on the bridleway. At the top of the ascent after 500m, turn right at the cross-rides .

Cross over a drive and after another 200m turn right on a steep narrow descending path to reach Braberry Ponds Braberry Ponds are fed by the Millbrook stream that descends to the Vachery and eventually exits the Forest at Newbridge, Colemans Hatch. With funding from Natural England under the Higher Level Stewardship scheme, the Conservators dredged these ponds in autumn 2009 and cleared encroaching scrub from the adjacent heathland.

Bear left and follow the path along the line of ponds and stream to reach a bridge. Turn right over the bridge and ascend to a track junction . Follow the main track towards the crest of the hill. About 75m before the crest, turn right onto a narrower ride. Ignoring other rides, remain on the widening ride, passing a pond on the left after about 600m. The ride bears left and passes along the left hand side of pine woodland.

In a further 150m it joins with the main ride by the A22. Turn left to return to Long car park.

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We nowpitch have aand much improvedofradio cricket pavilion Coleman’s Ha communications on the Forest thanks to Rangers Chris Suttonand Mike Payne and also a generous donation by the Friends of Ashdown Forest. Two microwave radio dishes have been installed so that now rangers have good radio reception on the South and East Chases. The radios are in frequent use by rangers who patrol the Forest on foot or in their trucks and are vital when there are forest fires or accidents involving the emergency services.

For our summer programme of events please log onto our website where you can subscribe to our email news service for regular updates on the Forest. Thanks.

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Gardening as a Therapy Stone Ness Walled Garden Project in the village of Ashurst ( between East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells) is run by Jean Burgess, a woman with both a vision and a certainty in the implicit health benefits of gardening. Here is the story: Over a century ago, our lovely walled garden was the kitchen garden supplying fruit and veg to a small mansion. Three very high brick walls protected half an acre of productive beds, an orchard, two heated greenhouses and a potting shed. Over the years, the garden fell into disuse, the walls crumbled and parts fell down, the greenhouses collapsed, and weeds outgrew the cultivated plants.

That is a potted version of the full history of the walled garden – a lot more happened within those walls during the 20th century, but we shall fast forward to 2006 the Stone Ness Walled Garden Project was born.

The aim was to develop a productive market garden following organic principles (where possible) and to provide social and therapeutic horticulture for people of the community with learning and mental health difficulties.

The bulldozer moved in, and the western half of the garden was dug deep, trees felled, skipfuls of glass carted away, hedges of ivy hacked from the walls and the potting shed dismantled. The orchard and the south east corner (now the “wild garden” ) were left undisturbed.

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was quite a journey!

Volunteers, donations, grants, and encouragement from new friends who visited and saw the potential of the garden – all these things helped us press forward, so that we reached a certain day in the Autumn of 2009 when our very first gardening client arrived.

Two and a half years on, and I am writing this at the start of a typical week when we shall be holding six separate gardening sessions as well as being joined on Mondays by an energetic group from “The Hub” in Tunbridge Wells and on Fridays by the Oakley School work experience team.

Our friends with learning difficulties come from a variety of home lives – some are in supported living in their local community, others may need 24 hour assistance, a few are at home with their families. They come to our walled garden to share in the pleasures of messing around with seeds, plants and compost, to enjoy the birdsong and see what’s growing, to sit around the table in the potting shed and chat over a cuppa and a biscuit (or two!).

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Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890 Last month we asked residents who have pastimes or hobbies, who were keen to let other residents know about these, to get in touch. Ian Morgan of the village of Ashurst is a dedicated art-lover; here he shares his love of art with this article about the woeful yet profilic life of one of the world’s greatest artists:

If you asked someone which famous artist would they consider to be the tortured genius, the vast ng that Van Gogh sold during his lifetime. It was sold in majority would say Vincent Van Gogh. During his ussels to an impressionist, Anna Boch. The price paid lifetime he had always had difficulty sustaining nt of $1,000 in today’s terms. It is now housed in the close relationships and lacked self belief. Born in Zundert, a village in the south Netherlands, as a child he was very serious and silent. inflation adjusted) paid for Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. For twenty years between 1860 and 1880 Van Gogh tried many professions - bookbinder, preacher, teacher and art dealer. In 1885 he moved to available for art talks on a variety of famous artists.

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Fine Art however, sadly his teachers rejected his work. Having moved to Paris, in 1886, he was living with his brother Theo. That same year he met Paul Gaugin (another post-impressionist artist) and they become good friends.

Two years later he left for Arles in the South of France. His move to Arles was prompted by a number of reasons including his failing health but it was also because he wanted to develop his art. His dream was to establish a “Studio of the South” in the Yellow House “la petite maison jaune”.

In October of that year he was joined by Gaugin.

Being opposite personalities, it was only a matter of time before they clashed.

Gaugin was horrified by Van Gogh’s disorganised ways and untidiness together with his inability to handle money. Faced with the prospect of eating a hot meal or buying paint Van Gogh would often choose the latter. Having two individuals who were both opinionated and volatile was bound to end in trouble. In December 1889 the arguments reached a head which resulted in Van Gogh cutting off part of his own ear. There are many different accounts of how this happened, including Van Gogh threatening Gaugin with a razor, but ending up cutting himself. However, we will never be sure of the precise truth.

After the turmoil he recovered but suffered with bouts of mental illness with hallucinations, hearing voices and seeing visions. Whilst at a mental institution he was free to paint and his work took 20 • July 2012 • Ashdown Forest Living

on a new spirit of energy. Indeed he found the other inmates “more discreet and polite” than the people of Arles.

Van Gogh shot himself, “for the good of all” in a wheat field in Auvers in Southern France where he had moved to in 1890, he died 2 days later. Theo, to whom he had written almost every week since he had moved to Arles, said about his brother, “He has found the peace he never found on earth.”

Theo died within months and the two brothers are buried side by side at Auvers.

Vincent loved painting sunflowers, not just the famous painting Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers painted 2 years before his death, but in many different forms describing them as “somewhat my own”. When he died, his coffin was surrounded by his paintings including the ubiquitous sunflowers.

The Red Vineyard (1888) was the only painting that Van Gogh sold during his lifetime. It was sold in 1890 after being shown at an exhibition in Brussels to an impressionist, Anna Boch. The price paid for the painting was 400 Francs the equivalent of $1,000 in today’s terms. It is now housed in the he had moved to Arles, said about his brother, “He Pushkin museum in Moscow.

Theo died within months and the two brothers are

Contrast this with the $146.5 million dollars (inflation adjusted) paid for Van Gogh’s Portrait of Vincent loved painting sunflowers, not just the fam Dr. Gachet sold at public auction in 1990.

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Local History Notes DAISY STYLES & THE OLYMPIC GAMES OF 1936

by Dorothy Hatswell

As the Olympic Games comes back again to London for the third time, it is perhaps appropriate that we remember Maresfieldborn Daisy Styles, who was selected to compete in the Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin, but was not allowed to go.

Lilian Daisy Styles was born on June 20th 1905 in the parish of Maresfield – just north of Uckfield. Her parents Thomas and Caroline farmed at School House Farm, Stumble Wood near Birch Grove, Harold Macmillan’s estate on the edge of Ashdown Forest. The youngest of four children born to her parents after three boys, she was christened Lilian but seems to have always been called by her second name, Daisy. The family moved to Lingfield to the Bays, a smallholding growing fruit and vegetables for local markets. They were living there at the time that the

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DAISY STYLES continued of the Third Reich – quite understandably we might add. He not only did not want to appear to support the event, as it could be taken as support for Hitler, but he was worried about Daisy’s safety. He refused to give his permission for her to go, which, as a minor, she needed. She actually reached the age of twenty one a few weeks before the Games themselves, but by then it was too late. One can only guess at Daisy’s reactions to this ultimatum. She must have been bitterly disappointed. However, it did not seem to breed any lasting resentment in her, towards her family. She continued for many years to help with growing the vegetables and then selling them in their small shop at 44 in East Grinstead’s High Street. However, she did have a reputation for being rather short with the customers…Perhaps it did affect her after all.

While watching the start of the London Marathon this year, I was very interested to find that it was officially started by Dorothy Tyler. On August 9th 1936 she had the Silver medal in the High Jump Competition at the Olympic Games held in Berlin. Whether she took Daisy’s place or if they would have been together in the team, I have been unable to discover. Tyler, or Odam as she then was, jumped 160cms using a straight forward straddle jump. She was in later years to accuse Dick Fosbury of cheating saying “in my day your feet had to go over the bar first, not your head”. The winner of the Gold Medal in 1936, a Hungarian athlete by the name of Ibolyo Csak, cleared 162 cms (about five feet four inches) on her fourth attempt. Three athletes, including Tyler, had tied at 160cms and were all equal on countback, where previous failures were taken into account. All three were allowed a fourth jump. Csak, the eventual

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winner, was the only one of the three to do it.

Where Daisy would have come is impossible to predict, but it is fair to speculate that she might have won gold. The women’s high jump record now stands at 209 cms (seven feet). The Fosbury Flop being the preferred method, of course!

It is interesting to note that this event could well have been watched by Winifred Wagner, the wife of the composer Seigfried Wagner, who were both friends of Hitler’s and certainly attended some of the Games. Winifred was orphaned at eight and brought up in St. Margaret’s Convent in East Grinstead. She may even have known the Styles family who were well known in the town at the time.

Daisy continued to run and win cross-country events until the start of the Second World War. When the war was over, she was forty years old and did not seem to have taken any further part in athletics. She worked in the family shop for many years, selling the fresh vegetables and fruit grown at their smallholding in Lingfield.

Later, in the 1960s, the family purchased part of the Orchard Estate, near Holtye. They gradually found it difficult to compete with the prices in the supermarkets which were beginning to spring up all over the country.

The smallholding began to diversify and concentrated on plants rather than produce. It became known as Orchard Nurseries which is still going strong to this day.

Daisy died in 1992, at the age of eighty seven.

She never married but she had nieces and nephews, one of whom now continues the family tradition of plant-growing as proprietor of the nursery.

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Even though more and more people are becoming aware of the importance of the honeybee as an essential partner to human agriculture and a keystone of the environment, few people feel able to keep bees themselves. So what can you do for the bee?

• Use your consumer power - Remember everything bees make royal jelly, propolis, honey, wax or pollen, they make for a reason so think and buy responsibly from local beekeepers. Local honey is thought to be better for you as it is made from the flora in your local environment, and you can ask the beekeeper about how their bees are kept. A worker bee will produce about a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime, so use it sparingly and treasure it!

• Try to eat locally and organically – field studies have found that compounds found in some agrochemicals are accumulated in hives by the bees as they gather pollen and nectar, and that this is a factor in their present troubles.

• Avoid using pesticides and read the labels on all your garden products. Insecticides can even be found in some types of compost.

• Find out what plants suitable for your garden are also bee friendly and plant some. Bees need a diverse range of forage. Some seed packets have a bee friendly logo which can help you choose.

• Keep an eye out for swarms in the spring, these are a real natural wonder to see. The bees are generally very docile while swarming but do call a local beekeeper who will try to find a hive to offer them.

• Spend time observing bees – they are the best teachers about their needs. They can tell you what plants they like. If you have a hive nearby you can learn a lot from just watching the entrance.

• Attend a course – learn about the life of the honeybee and how to be a bee guardian, or how to become a natural beekeeper on a course with the Natural Beekeeping Trust. You may like to attend the Natural Beekeeping Conference “The Future of Beekeeping” which promises a programme packed with prominent speakers and workshops for anyone with an interest in bees.

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What’s On: July 2012

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Tuesday 17th July

Warren Drive Residential Home will be holding an English Garden Fete with entertainer, cake stall, tombola, jewellery, bric-a-brac and other attractions, in aid of Hospice in the Weald from 2: 30pm.

Crowborough Olympic Torch Relay: it will enter Crowborough on the A26 Eridge Road and will change to ‘Torch Bearer mode’ at Palesgate Lane before continuing Green Lane, turning right onto Crowborough Hill then right again into Beeches road, then East Beeches road and passes through Beacon School (please note the school will not open to the public). The convoy will then continue to North Beeches Road, back onto Crowborough Hill heading towards the town. It will travel through the High Street and turn left on to the A26 Beacon Road until Swift Close.

Saturday 7th July

Coffee morning in the Coffee Room at All Saints Church, Chapel Green, Crowborough TN6 2ED, in aid of Hospice in the Weald. Home made cakes, preserves, books, bric-a-brac, and a raffle. Come early to avoid disappointment. 10am – 12pm.

Saturday 7th July

Monthly Saturday Market, 10am – 12:30pm, Blackham Village Hall. Meet other villagers, enjoy refreshments. Local Produce for sale will include: Bread, Free range eggs, Home Bakery, Preserves, Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Willetts Ice Cream, Jewellery and gifts.

Saturday 14th July

Forest Row Primary School Summer Fete, 11am-2pm.

Balloon race at 11, dog show at 11.30, bouncy castle, tea tent, pimms tent, cake stall, arts and crafts, BBQ, swish tent, deli stall and many fun things to see and do.

Saturday 14th July

Blackham Village Hall Quiz Night at 7:30pm. Food included in ticket. Tickets: £7.50, Call Penny on 01892 740574 Saturday 14th July

Tibetan Monks Show. A spectacular show and apart from a gig in London this is the Monks only performance in the South East on this tour - they come every year or so to earn enough money to keep their monastery in Tibet.

Crowborough Community Centre at 7:30pm. Pine Grove, Crowborough TN6 1PE. Box Office: 01892 610709 Saturday 14th July

Fairwarp Village Fete, 2 - 5.30 pm. The Electric Hoedown Band will provide music, and children from Nutley School will perform Maypole, Scottish and Country dancing. Also providing music and dancing will be the In-Step Majorettes. Arts, Crafts and Produce tent, a bouncy castle and a Barrow Of Booze. Dog show, weather permitting. Magical entertainer Paul Bromley will be circulating amongst fete-goers. Competitions will include Best Olympic Scarecrow, and there will be races for the children. Finally there’s Grand Draw.

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East Grinstead Olympic Torch Relay: At around 10am the first runners will start the carry the torch on foot from Felbridge before turning in to the A22 which becomes London Road. At around 10:15am the torch reaches the shopping area of the town, these roads will be closed until 12pm to allow the crowds to enjoy the spectacle and entertainment that will be provided.

Tuesday 17th July

Open Evening - Uckfield Art Group In conjunction with the Uckfield Festival Uckfield Art Group is having an Open Evening. 7pm - 9pm at the Luxford Centre, Library Way, TN22 1AR. Join in with the members to create a large mosaic picture - materials provided. Free event! 01825 765021 www.uckfieldartgroup.co.uk .

Until Monday 30th July

Ashdown Arts present a ‘smaller’ picture, Six local artists are showing their work at this unique location at Upper Gallery, Hartfield Road, Forest Row Tuesday 31st July

Hartfield & District Horticultural Society invite you to an evening with John Withall, previously a Ranger with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Wakehurst Place, who will be entertaining us with a talk about the Millennium Seed Bank. Please come along and enjoy the evening at the Village Hall, Hartfield. Doors open at 7pm with John’s talk commencing at 7:30 pm followed by refreshments and a raffle. Entry £3 non members, £2 members. Members old and new very welcome. For further information please ring Pauline on 01892 770088.

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Gardening Tips for July

10-12 August

Join us at this unique gathering to learn, share and network with fellow honeybee enthusiasts and leading practitioners of natural beekeeping from Britain and the Continent. The jam-packed programme promises an exciting mix of internationallyrenowned speakers, informative hive demonstrations, diverse workshop choices and a ‘World Cafe’ discussion space. Also included is a Barn Dance on Saturday night at neighbouring Tablehurst Farm, a biodynamic, community-owned farm.

Emerson College, Forest Row. For further details and to book, please contact Natural Beekeeping Alliance www.biobees.com/ naturalbeekeepingalliance/conference.php Uckfield Festival 13- 22 July 2012

An amazing new event is planned for the Uckfield Festival. On the evening of July 21st the brand new Sky Dome will touch down on Luxford Field.

The 50 ft Sky Dome is going to be a hub of artistic activity: Workshops in paper sculpture, film making and puppetry & in the evening a wonderland as films, images and shadow puppets are projected for spectators. Meanwhile Uckfield Concert Brass will give an outdoor concert.

This event is an addition to the traditional Big Day which takes place on 14th July.

The daily Festival club in the Luxford Lounge offers free gigs with local musicians, dancers and storytellers. Another event: Ceilidh in Ridgewood village hall on Friday 20th July.

It’s definitely a week of events not to be missed! See: www.uckfieldfestival.co.uk Fundraising for Horder Centre

Article by Michael Dongray,

Imberhorne Lane Nursery Proprietor

Fruit and Vegetables Pinch out side shoots of tomatoes on a regular basis. Feed on a regular basis with a liquid tomato feed. Sow seeds of Cabbage, spinach, turnip, endive, mustard, cress, lettuce, parsley and radish. 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.

Lawns 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

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

Names from the world of sport and showbiz including DJ Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, ice skater Jayne Torvill, singer Dame Vera Lynn and Brighton author Peter James have already donated shoes to the appeal.

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

The public will have the chance to bid for the shoes during a week-long eBay auction starting on July 8, and by doing so will raise money to create several new woodland trails in the hospital grounds. For more information email: Camilla Slattery at camilla. slattery@horder.co.uk or call 01892 600002.

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.

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Miscellaneous

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