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The
Gardens
Enter
the garden through the doorway on the left of the house. A
200 year old Lucombe oak leads to the croquet lawn and beyond
to the temple on a mound.
In the spring this area is a sea of daffodils. Here and beyond
are many great and smaller trees including Cedars of Lebanon,
Shagbark Hickory, camellias, rhododendron, and a new planting
of sorbus at the far end. The view of the South Downs with
Chanctonbury Ring in the distance, inspired John Constable
who painted a watercolour of the house, and more recently
S.R. Badmin who illustrated The Shell Guide to British Trees.
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