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I've had the please of working with John for many many years. I have learnt so much from him in that time and i'll forever be in his debt. Total legend

I have a chalk bank in the rockery planted with native wildflowers. Please feel free to pop over and grab some seeds/plants etc

The plants were propagated by a wonderful gardener called John Gapper. He's been with the parks dept since the year dot and what John doesn't know about wildflowers isn't worth knowing. The nursery has been taken over by Plumpton College. Although some of the glasshouses will be lost, many...

Massive thank you to everyone who's replied. I've had an overwhelming response particularly on the Facebook groups "Brighton people" and "Brighton Past" I have approx 25 volunteers who will help out in some capacity. I would eventually see that going down to 12 or so as some move on etc...

Unfortunately, virtually every local authority relies on volunteers to keep things looking nice. Every council has suffered massive financial cutbacks in the past 10 years so if we want to keep the gardens and parks looking good, we must ask for the public's help. Volunteering does have many...

Absolutely not. Would be a good opportunity to learn something new.

During the war............

Not going to promise anything at the moment. Will probably do a mix of herbaceous and direct sown hardy annual seeds at the moment. I doubt if it'll ever return to the days of the 70's but there maybe some scope.

Greetings. As some of you know, i'm the Garden Manager of the Rockery opposite Preston Park. With the help of my volunteer group, community payback guys and my now retired manager, Jack Straw, we've turned the garden into a beautiful, award winning garden that i'm very proud of. However...