Pretty as a PICTURE
As an embodiment of the rose-tinted fantasy that is the traditional English cottage garden, the artlessly blowsy and colourful acre that adorns The Long House in the leafy hamlet of Westdean in East Sussex fits the bill perfectly. The house itself is in essence a lovely, slate-roofed cottage, long and low, built of brick and flint and hunkered into a gentle slope. Originally a tiny worker’s dwelling on an estate owned by the Duke of Devonshire, it was extended in the 18th century and has been carefully made even bigger by the current owners, Robin and Rosie Lloyd.
The well-screened garden consists of a series of informally defined and softly planted rooms, which wrap around the house on three sides. Close by, on
