The Oaks West Sussex

28/07/2025

Beautiful Evening Sunshine in the veg and fruit gardens - buzzing with butterflies, Crickets and bees… 🙏🏼.

06/07/2025

The season of Golden Currants has arrived - ruby red and deep black - currants are so easy to grow, and propagate. They do need protection from the birds when ripening, and offer Mindfulness Practice when picking due to the prickly bushes, but are jewelled “superfoods”. Packed with fibre, vitamins C & K. Also carotene, calcium and potassium… and so the list goes on! Incredible how the ground can be rock hard and dry, yet they are so packed with juicy goodness - how wonderful nature is! 💯

05/06/2025

Drying petals for a Niece’s Spring ‘26 wedding - Now is the perfect time to dry flowers or petals for decoration - or dry herbs or scented flowers to use as tea or other infusion - here making Marigold tea from the flowers that were grown as a decoy for green / black fly to protect nearby vegetables from attack 😊.

06/05/2025

Suddenly it’s May - and the garden is full of growth!

15/01/2025

Great way to start 2025 - so grateful to all our wonderful guests, and looking forward to meeting & welcoming back lots more this year!🌻

09/12/2024

Our latest online review from some fantastic recent guests who came for a

26/11/2024

23/04/2024

Lovely feedback from lovely guests who really enjoyed some Spring Stay in Sussex!

22/09/2023

Late summer - how fast the last two seasons seem to have passed… and yet nature has achieved so much…

28/08/2023

Some of the lovely reviews from our Bank Holiday Guests - what perfect weather we had for Taking Time!

16/08/2023

At the weekend we held our monthly tea party for the elderly - I’m the local coordinator for Horsham and have a team of wonderful volunteer drivers who pick guests up and take them home again after the event. It’s such a special, social time and is so important - under the umbrella of the National charity who organise similar groups all over the country - well worth looking up if you can help in a driver or host role, or know anyone who may enjoy joining their local group as a guest.

30/07/2023

Blackbirds nesting under cover by the bog 🙂. We have left bushes and reeds to provide cover for wildlife, and have planted Irises which are more colourful each Spring… We now have hedgehogs, a huge resident grass snake and range of birds nests - some lined with fleece from the sheep - Nature is so resourceful!👍🌻🌼