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MAYThursday 19 MaySouth London Botanical InstituteEvening 6-8. Entry free. See Sun 17 April for full details of garden.Sun 22 MayStoney Hill HouseRock Hill, London SE26 6SW.Cinzia and Adam Greaves. Off SydenhamHill. Train: Sydenham, Gipsy Hill or SydenhamHill (closest) stations. Buses: To Crystal Palace,202 or 363 along Sydenham Hill. House at endof cul-de-sac on left coming from SydenhamHill. Opening 2-6 for NGS. Adm 4, chdfree. All cakes are home-made and delicious!Generous mugs of tea with free refills. Plantsfor sale.Stoney Hill House garden and woodland of approx one acre providing a secluded secret green oasisin the city. Paths meander through mature rhododendron, oak, yew and holly trees, offset by piecesof contemporary sculpture. The garden is on a slope and a number of viewpoints set at differentheights provide varied perspectives. The planting in the top part of the garden is fluid and flowsseamlessly into the woodland. We hope to have a living sculpture carved into an oak tree damagedin high winds. There will also be a saxophone quartet playing throughout the afternoon. Shallow,wide steps at entrance to garden with grass slope alongside. Wheelchair access possible if these canbe negotiated.Sunday 22 May9 Rollscourt Avenue, Herne Hill,SE24 0EA.Emily and Robert Montague020 7501 9120emilycmontague@aol.com. Opening 2–5pm.Adm. 3.50 in aid of Link Age Southwark(formerly Dulwich Helpline and SouthwarkChurches Care). Teas. Plants. Sorry, no dogs.8 Rollscourt AvenueThe garden was redesigned in 2015 by localgarden designers Sarah Hammond andCharlotte Parton to create a contrast of formal and wildlife areas using a palate of purple, white andyellow. A clever use of brick edging and sleepers defines the beds and a pergola draws the eye.9

MAY/JUNESunday 29 May174 Peckham Rye, London SE22 9QAMr and Mrs Ian Bland. Stn: Peckham Rye. Buses: 12, 37, 63, 197, 363. Overlooks Peckham Rye Commonfrom Dulwich side. Opening 2.30-5.30 for NGS. Adm 3.50, chd free. Includes share to St Christopher’sHospice. Home-made teas.Visitors call our garden an oasis of calm in Peckham. Every year the garden changes and matures. Itis densely planted with a wide variety of contrasting foliage. Unusual plants are combined with oldfavourites. It remains easy care and child friendly. Garden originally designed by Judith Sharpe. Our everpopular plant sale and famed cakes will be available again. Easy access via side alley into a flat garden.Disabled access.Sunday 5 June4 Cornflower Terrace, East Dulwich SE22 0HHClare Dryhurst 5 mins walk from 63 bus stop at bottom of Forest Hill Rd. Turn into Dunstans Rd, then 2ndon L. Mainline: Peckham Rye or Honor Oak Park. Opening 2-5.30 for NGS. Adm 3.50, chd free. Free cuppa!Still defying size limits, now featuring wrought iron trellises to use every available inch. A pretty, secludedand tiny courtyard cottage garden, only 50ft x 9ft in a quiet street in the heart of artistic East Dulwich.Around a sunken patio with a bench and solar fountain are clustered climbers, roses, ferns, annuals andherbs in raised beds and pots backed by a charming painted garden shed.Sunday 5 June35 Camberwell Grove35 Camberwell Grove,London SE5 8JALynette Hemmant and Juri Gabriel020 7703 6186 juri@jurigabriel.comBacking onto St Giles Church,Camberwell Church St. FromCamberwell Green go down CamberwellChurch St. Turn right into CamberwellGrove. Opening 12- 6 for NGS. Adm 3.50, chd free. Includes to St GilesChurch. Fruit juice/biscuits available.Visits also by arrangement May to July,min. charge 70. Max group size 25.Plant packed 120ft x 20ft gardenwith charming backdrop of St Giles Church. Evolved over 30yrs into a romantic country style gardenbrimming with colour and overflowing with pots. In June, spectacular roses stretch the full length of thegarden, both on the artist’s studio and festooning an old iron staircase. Artist’s studio open. Lynette (whohas earned her living by pen and brush throughout her life) has painted the garden obsessively for thepast 20yrs; see her (www.lynettehemmant.com) and NGS websites. Refreshments.10

JUNESunday 5 June103 and 105 Dulwich Village SE21 7BJNoel and Caroline Annesley 020 8693 1165 Andrew and Ann Rutherford 020 8693 3740. Rail: NorthDulwich or West Dulwich then 15 mins. walk. Bus: P4. Free street parking. Opening 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm.Combined admission: 5.00. Children free. In aid of St Christopher’s Hospice. Sorry no wheelchair access. Nodogs. Push chairs and buggies to be left in front garden behind ticket table. Sorry, no dogs. Excellent sale of plantsfrom both gardens. Sadly, not suitable for wheelchairs.Both gardens are also open on Sunday, June 19th.Two Georgian Houses with large gardens about three minutes walk from Dulwich Picture Gallery andDulwich Park. Groups have visited from Japan, Switzerland, America and Austria.Visit shown on Austrian television.103 Dulwich Village – Beautiful garden featuring plants and shrubs, some unusual, chosen forcolour and shape throughout the year. Long 8ft high south-facing wall decked with varied climbersbehind a long, mixed border containing a wide range of herbaceous plants.Spacious child/picnic-friendly lawn. Steps up to a formal lily pond teeming with fish (rudd), newts, frogs,dragonflies and other wildlife. The pond is surrounded by a paved area and flower beds filled with oldroses and other colourful plants. Victorian-style greenhouse with vegetable and soft fruit area beyond.Gate to 105 next door. Both gardens back onto Dulwich Park, giving them a country feel. Wind bandprovided by Dulwich Symphony Orchestra will be playing in the garden to entertain you while youhave your home-made teas.105 Dulwich Village– A very pretty flower-105 Dulwich Villagelover’s garden with blueand white planting rounda formal goldfish pond,home to tadpoles, damselflies, pond-skaters, waterboatmen and other smallskillywigglers. Gloriouscolours elsewhere to attractbees and butterflies. Lotsof old-fashioned roses, finedelphiniums, many unusualperennials and planters fullof jolly annuals. Ancientmulberry tree. Attractiveearly C20th greenhouse.Lawns, shrubbery. Sculpture created from recycled Westmorland slate. Waterfall and pond with newtsand other wildlife including leeches (children need to be supervised here).11

JUNEFriday 10 JuneStoney Hill House, Rock Hill, London SE26 6SW.Cinzia and Adam Greaves. Off Sydenham Hill. Train: Sydenham, Gipsy Hill or Sydenham Hill (closest)stations. Buses: To Crystal Palace, 202 or 363 along Sydenham Hill, House at end of cul-de-sac on left comingfrom Sydenham Hill. Opening 5.30 - 8.00. Adm 5.00, to include a glass of wine, in aid of Link AgeSouthwark (formerly Dulwich Helpline and Southwark Churches Care.) Wine and soft drinks. Plants for sale.Garden and woodland of approx one acre providing a secluded secret green oasis in the city. Pathsmeander through mature rhododendron, oak, yew and holly trees, offset by pieces of contemporarysculpture. The garden is on a slope and a number of viewpoints set at different heights provide variedperspectives. The planting in the top part of the garden is fluid and flows seamlessly into the woodland.We hope to have a living sculpture carved into an oak tree damaged in high winds. Shallow, wide stepsat entrance to garden with grass slope alongside. Wheelchair access possible if these can be negotiated.Photo see p.9Saturday 11 June, Sun 12 June41 Southbrook Road, Lee, London SE12 8LJ.Barbara and Marek Polanski, 020 8333 2176, polanski101@yahoo.co.uk. Situated at Southbrook Rd off SCircular, off Burnt Ash Rd. Train: Lee Hither Green, both 10 mins walk. Bus: P273, 202. Opening 2-5.30both days for NGS. Adm 3.50, chd free. Home-made teas. Side access available for standard wheelchairs. Dogsallowed. Teas. Visits also by arrangement May to Aug (2-5.30).Developed over 14 years, this large garden has a formal layout, with wide mixed herbaceous borders fullof colour and interest, surrounded by mature trees framing sunny lawns, a central box parterre and anIndian pergola. Ancient pear trees festooned in June with clouds of white Kiftsgate and Rambling Rectorroses. Discover fishes and damselflies in two lily ponds. Many places to sit and relax. Enjoy refreshmentsin a small classical garden building with interior wall paintings, almost hidden by roses climbing way upinto the trees, the fountains and the fishes and damselflies, and the Indian Gazebo in the box parterre.Featured on Show me your Garden. Articles in Garden News, Bises and Garden Answers.12

JUNESunday 12 June115 Dulwich Village, SE21 7BJMrs Bridget Furst. 02086935049.Opening 2–5pm. Adm. 3.50. In aid of LinkAge Southwark (Formerly Dulwich Helplineand Southwark Chuches Care). Parkingin surrounding streets. Not suitable forwheelchairs. Dogs on lead only.This garden is deceptive for a towngarden – there are several sections to itincluding a herbaceous border, topiary,a deck/gravel area with pond, a scentedgarden which has been developed recently,and a summerhouse overhung with roses,clematis and a young wisteria. This privategarden is surrounded by a wall, clippedyew hedges and trees115 Dulwich VillageSunday 12 June122 Court Lane SE21122 Court LaneDulwich SE21 7EA. Jean andCharles Cary-Elwes Buses P4, 12,40, 176, 185 (to Dulwich Library)37. Mainline; North Dulwich then15 mins walk, ample free parking.Opening 2–5.30. Adm 5 for NGS,chd free. Wheelchair access to terraceonly but good view of garden. Teas.Generously proportioned, maturegarden with unusual and marginallytender shrubs which thrive in thehands of a keen propagator. Agapanthus, a signature plant followed by oleander, and a splendidclerodendron. Backing on to Dulwich Park it has a countryside feel - a true family garden withsandpit and hammock mingling with a hardworking greenhouse and a super wormery, which will bedemonstrated. Jazz band, cakes and tea, children’s trail, plant sales.13

JUNESunday 19 June18 Crescent Wood Road,London SE26 6RUJohn and Barbara Wheen020 8693 7050 barbarawheen@ntlworld.com 3.50 in aid of LinkAge Southwark (formerly DulwichHelpline and Southwark ChurchesCare). Parking on Crescent WoodRoad is free. Wheelchair accessavailable through to rear garden.Children to be supervised and dogson leads only please. Teas. Booksale.18 Crescent Wood RoadThe 1/6 acre grounds were theformer orchard of BeltwoodHouse, with lawned gardens to front and rear. Attractive borders at the front feature a large goldfishstocked pond and dolphin fountain. From a rear stone patio rises a stunning flower bed and 100 yearold apple tree. Visiting peacock.14

JUNESunday 19 June103 and 105 Dulwich Village, SE21 7BJNoel and Caroline Annesley 020 8693 1165 Andrew and Ann Rutherford 020 8693 3740. Rail:North Dulwich or West Dulwich then 15 mins. walk. Bus: P4 to Picture Gallery stop. Free streetparking. Opening 2 – 5pm for NGS, share to local Macmillan. Combined admission: 5.00. Children free.Home made teas at 103. Sorry no wheelchair access. Sorry, no dogs. Push chairs and buggies to be left infront garden behind ticket table. Excellent sale of plants from both gardens.Two Georgian Houses with large gardens about three minutes walk from Dulwich Picture Galleryand Dulwich Park. Groups have visited from Japan, Switzerland, America and Austria. Visit shownon Austrian television.103 Dulwich VillageBeautiful garden featuringplants and shrubs, someunusual, chosen for colourand shape throughoutthe year. Long 8ft highsouth-facing wall deckedwith varied climbersbehind a long, mixedborder containing widerange of herbaceousplants. Spacious child/picnic-friendly lawn. Stepsup to a formal lily pondteeming with fish (rudd),newts, frogs, dragonfliesand other wildlife. Thepond is surrounded by apaved area and flowerbedsfilled with old roses andother colourful plants. Victorian-style greenhouse with vegetable and soft fruit area beyond. Gateto 105 next door. Both gardens back onto Dulwich Park, giving them a country feel. Wind bandprovided by Dulwich Symphony Orchestra will be playing in the garden.105 Dulwich Village – A very pretty flower-lover’s garden with blue and white plantinground a formal pond, home to tadpoles, damsel flies, pond-skaters, water boatmen and other smallskillywigglers. Glorious colours elsewhere to attract bees and butterflies. Lots of old-fashioned roses,fine delphiniums, many unusual perennials and planters full of jolly annuals. Ancient mulberry tree.Attractive early C20th greenhouse. Lawns, shrubbery. Sculpture created from recycled Westmorlandslate. Waterfall and pond with newts and other wildlife including leeches (children must besupervised here).15

JUNESunday 19 JuneSouth London Botanical InstituteOpen Garden Squares 2–5 See Sunday 17 April for full details of garden.Thursday 23 JuneSouth London Botanical InstituteEvening 6-8 Entry free. See Sunday 17 April for full details of garden.Friday 24 JuneJames Allen’s Girls’ School Botany Gardens,144 East Dulwich Grove, London. SE22 8TETel 020 8693 1181Opening 4.30 – 7.00 Adm: 3.00 in Aid of Cystic Fibrosis TrustWheelchair access good to most but not all of the garden. Refreshments available: Pimm’s, soft drinks.Plants for sale; some rare, some unusual, all home grown.JAGS Botany gardens were established in 1896 as a practical teaching aid. A small part of theoriginal design remains, but as the school has grown the botany gardens have also evolved. Plantsare grown in beds to show their relationship to one another. The order beds have recently beenreplanted to reflect the many reclassifications that plants have undergone because of modern geneticmapping. Many of the plants are grown to show their practical uses for food, medicine and otherapplications.James Allen’s Girls’ School Botany Garden16

THE DULWICH SOCIETY GARDEN GROUPVisit to Nymans and Sheffield ParkTuesday 21 June 2016Coach from Dulwich Picture Gallery, College Road – 8.45am for 9.00am departure and return 5.30pm.Non-members welcome.Today we will visit two of the National Trust’s great gardens in Sussex – Nymans and Sheffield Park.Nymans, which was the home of the Messel family for three generations, is one of the great gardens ofthe Sussex Weald. The 30 acre garden was created over nearly three-quarters of a century from 1885 andcontains a remarkable collection of trees, shrubs and plants from all over the world. Many of these werecollected on plant-gathering expeditions to South America, the Far East, Burma and Tasmania sponsoredby the Messel family.The garden is set on the side of a valley at 500 feet and is laid out in a series of outdoor rooms – in the Artsand Crafts manner. The oldest part of Nymans is the Wall Garden reached through an Italian archway.This was originally an orchard and the old fruit trees are now dwarfed by exotic specimen trees. Here twopeaceful walks - one planted with spring flowers and the other with summer perennials converge on anItalian fountain flanked by formal topiary yews.Sheffield Park is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the late 1700s, James Wyatt, who remodelled thehouse in the fashionable Gothic style, commissioned Capability Brown to landscape the gardens with fourlakes at their heart. The lakes and arboretum now extend to some 200 acres, in a spectacular and peacefulsetting. It is home to the National Collection of Ghent azaleas.We will arrive at Nymansshortly after 11.00 wherewe will be given a tourof the garden and thenmove on to Sheffield Parkafter lunch.We should arrive back inDulwich Village around5.30pm.The ticket price is 25.Application form page 25.Nymans. Photograph by Elliot SimpsonSheffield Park. Photograph by Zeimusi17

Green CuisineCookshopJUNESunday 26 Junecook bake dine118 Court Lane LondonSE21 7EAMargaret EvisonTelephone: 020 8693 2254Opening time: 2.00 pm – 5.30 pm.Admission: 3.00 in support of the Mark EvisonFoundation. Visitors and groups also welcome byapply May to August. Home-made teas.Luscious planting in deep herbaceous borderswith shrubs, unusual specimens and archingroses, alongside an immaculate lawn. Pass underan ancient pear tree through a magical perfumedwhite rose garden to unfold the surprise - asmall wildflower meadow with a pond attractingwildlife, particularly butterflies - all with awonderful backdrop of green Dulwich Park. Thefront garden is a mix of white flowers/variegatedgreenery. A plant collector’s garden.Green Cuisine stocks a comprehensive range ofcookware, kitchenware and table wareOur new website is up and running - view a widerange of products and buy online7 Lordship Lane SE22 8EW 0208 693 7781www.greencruisinecookshop.com18

Sunset SoiréeSunday 26 June 6.30 – 8.30108 College Road London SE21 7HWHilarie Clifford and Kieran Coonanemail: hilarie@hotmail.com phone: 020 8670 5957Enjoy this year’s Sunset Soiree in support of Link Age Southwark (formerly DulwichHelpline and Southwark Churches Care) in a lovely Dulwich garden. This large garden ontwo levels has traditional, colourful herbaceous borders with a mass of peonies, roses, irises,clematis and many species of acers and, on another level, a Mediterranean garden around apool with palm trees, bamboo and potted geraniums.Sorry no dogs. Limited wheelchair access to upper level only.Tickets 25, available in advance from Link Age Southwark,include a welcome drink and delicious canapés. Cash bar and raffle.Contact Link Age Southwark 020 8299 2623 or www.linkagesouthwark.org19

JULYSunday 3 July221 Upland Road, East Dulwich, SE22 0DJRosin and Nat Walker. 020 8693 6798 n@quinnwallace.co.uk. 2–5pm. Adm 3.50 in aid ofLink Age Southwark (formerly Dulwich Helpline and Southwark Churches Care). Free parkingin surrounding streets. Step-free access from street to garden. Unfenced ponds so children must besupervised. Well-behaved dogs on leads welcome. Teas. Plants.Our garden is a work in progress, largely reclaimed from an overgrown plot four years ago. Itincludes vegetable beds, two wildlife ponds, mature fruit trees as well as new and establisheddecorative beds and borders.Most enjoyable when sitting in the garden eating its produce.JOIN THE DULWICH SOCIETYWith over 1000 households as members, the Society actively promotes the local environment andprotecting and enhancing the amenities of Dulwich. Members receive a quarterly, award winningmagazine. We arrange talks, walks and tours led by experts.All for an annual subscription of only 10 per household. Full membership details from: DianaMcInnes, diana mcinnes@hotmail.com20

JULYWednesday 20 July9 The Gardens, East Dulwich, London SE22 9QD.Nigel Watts. Off Peckham Rye, Dulwich side. Stations: Peckham Rye and Honor Oak, both onOverground. Buses: 12, 37, 63,197, 363. Free parking in square.Evening opening 6.30-8.30. Adm 20 for NGS. Pre-booking essential. Please visit ngs.org.uk or phone01483 211535 for information and booking. Wine and canapés included. Talk by owner. Max 25 people.A surprising garden within a garden with exuberant plants in vibrant colours, incl exotics, all within40ft x 20ft designed to peak in high summer. Prairie planting features some spectacular grasses aswell as veronicastrum and persicaria. Plants deliberately designed to provide good foliage are animportant feature adding another dimension. Kentish fruit juice, art cards and paintings. Plants.Refreshments. NB. Nigel is one of our speakers at our Spring talk on March 9th, see page 5Thurs 21 JulyThurs 25 AugSouth London Botanic

Sunset Soirée at 118 College Road July Sunday 3 221 Upland Road Wednesday 20 9 Th e Gardens ursday 21 South London Botanical Institute Aug ursday 25 South London Botanical Institute Sept . Plants for sale at 25 Westwood Park, 27 Horniman Drive and 7 Canonbie Rd. e Coach House 27 Horniman Drive. MAY 9 ursday 19 May South London .