#SUSSEX

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 13 December 2024

Growing in the shade of the tropical-style foliage plants of the Sunken Garden of Great Dixter, Sussex, was the rhizomatous perennial Begonia 'Little Brother Montgomery'. Though not hardy this cane-type begonia thrives when shielded from direct sunlight to prevent leaf scorch and ideally in a temperature range between 15-22°C (58-72°F).

Jill Raggett

[vintagehomecollection]

Charleston, a Sussex farmhouse, was a country retreat for artists and writers of the Bloomsbury Group and the home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. The drawing room fireplace is heated by a Pither stove. The surround is painted with figures by Duncan Grant in the exuberant decorative style that eventually embellished every surface in the house.

The Fireplace, 1994

[petitworld]

[via]

[illustratus]

Arundel Castle, West Sussex, England

[mommydesiresblog]

[essayisms]

During this peculiar September heatwave we are having, I made the pilgrimage to Virginia and Leonard Woolf's house in Sussex.

[mensministry]

The Burl Treehouse Series, Sussex, UK,

Antony Gibbon Designs

[livesunique]

Herstmonceux Castle,

Herstmonceux, East Sussex, United Kingdom

[geopsych]

On this day in 2018 I took this picture in southern England before flying home to Pennsylvania.

[scavengedluxury]

Sainsbury's, Lewes Road, Brighton, 1985. From the Sainsbury Archive.

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Glass Window-Pane, 1st-2nd Century CE, Garden Hill, Hartfield, Sussex, The British Museum, London

Although not all windows were glazed, small fragments of window- glass are found on many Roman sites. Almost complete panes, like this one from a bath-house, very rarely survive. It belongs to the earlier Roman type made by casting a flat sheet of glass in a stone or wooden tray and cutting smaller panes from it as required.

Later it was more usual to blow a cylinder of glass, slit it lengthways and then heat and flatten it.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 25 November 2024

The last flowers of various cultivars of Symphyotrichum novi-belgii (Michaelmas daisy, New York aster) and other species of clump-forming, herbaceous perennials. This is such a lovely way to display flowers in a garden or house.

Jill Raggett

[goddess-emilyjo]

How do you like my new nails losers?😌

[aimz-d-photography]

Remnants of a Lost Line. camera: Sony a7 iii lens: Tamron 24mm f/2.8 Di III OSD flickr // instagram

[cirrusgazer]

A favourite viewpoint on The South Downs

[vintagepromotions]

Travel poster for the East Sussex towns of Hastings and St. Leonards (c. 1920). Artwork by Elijah Albert Cox.