Breaking FREE
For many of our gardens, autumn signals a slowing down, a gradual slide into lazy senescence. Not so for Sussex Prairie Garden. Come September and October, this unique West Sussex garden is reaching its wonderfully dizzying peak.
For nearly 30 years, Paul and Pauline McBride have been designing and making gardens all over the world. Sussex Prairies, conceived with their own British twist on the Dutch Wave New Perennial movement, is their signature creation. The eight-acre garden sits in a wider landscape of 32 acres of farmland, formerly owned and farmed by Pauline’s parents. On entering, visitors are greeted – perhaps surprisingly given the garden’s moniker – by tropical planting including towering bananas, cannas and tetrapanax. So far, so unexpected. Then, you step out from the canopy into the open and there they are: the prairie borders, with their
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