Limekiln Farm Chalvington Road Chalvington BN27 3TA Open Garden for St Wilfrids

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# Who is interested?

Meet up at 2pm within garden, near payment desk area ( entrance by donation) .

Officially this garden is open at 11am ( if you wish to attend earlier you are free to do so with family /friends ) if you would like to meet as a group the time will be at 2pm.

At 2:30pm in the Physic garden of Limekiln there will be a talk about medicinal plants from the owner a retired anaesthetist.

This is open for everyone to attend this garden isn't open exclusively for this group, it is open for all general public to enjoy.

# Additional Information for those interested:

# Limekiln Farm

The garden was designed in the 1930s when the house was owned by Charles Stewart Taylor, MP for Eastbourne. It has not changed in basic layout since then. The planting aims to reflect the age of the C17 property (not open) and original garden design. The house and garden are mentioned in Virginia Woolf's diaries of 1929, depicting a particular charm and peace that still exists today.

## Owner Info

• Dr J Hester & Mr M Royle

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### About Limekiln Farm

The Vanguard Way (East Croydon to Newhaven) runs down the drive. In late summer the garden remains colourful. The trees and spring flowers are plentiful, with naturalised anemones, cowslips, many daffodils, crown imperials and tulips. In May there are many flowering shrubs, azaleas, rhododendrons and peonies. There is a large rose garden and herbaceous border with late flowering annuals, dahlias, Helenium and Rudbeckia. A map and history of the house and garden is provided. A large prairie style garden has recently been developed. There is also a physic garden including a poison bed, a bog garden, informal pond and specimen trees. In June there are many roses, flowering shrubs, and naturalised wild flowers.

A talk on specific medicinal plants will be given by the owner in the physic garden Her interest (as a retired anaesthetist) are the substances from plants that have been developed into drugs that are used in medicine today. There are many interesting stories!