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Name Tillingham Winery.
 What Minimal maintenance, gravel garden in a former farmyard.
 Where East Sussex.
 Size Approximately half an acre.
 Soil Heavily compacted Wealden clay.
 Climate Dry summers, and wet and windy winters.
 Hardiness zone USDA8.

The Sussex Weald is a timeless undulating landscape with hidden corners where narrow roads overhung with trees wind through ancient woodland. Tucked away in one of these corners and reached via the evocatively named Starvecrow Lane, Tillingham Winery is a biodynamically managed vineyai'd and winery with a restaurant and rooms incorporated into the old and new farmyard buildings. A grid pattern of gravel

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