BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO AN OLD GARDEN
At the heart of West Dean Gardens is a walled kitchen garden that in the early 20th century supplied the estate with staple vegetables, exotic fruit and cut flowers.
Edward James inherited the 6300 acre estate, which appears in the Domesday book, in 1912. He was a renowned patron of the arts, particularly of Surrealist artists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, and the house saw a lively social life. Concerned that crafts would be lost after the world wars, James left the estate in the hands of a charitable trust to preserve skills in traditional arts and
