The Garden Party 2025

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Features

You’re a Natural Beauty: May 2025

Each month Adele Trathan and Sara Whatley look at seven elements of living the life of a natural beauty, helping you to enrich the mind, body and soul...

The Secret Garden

A secret garden designed to be shared, Lisa de Silva discovers Grove Garden in Haywards Heath and learns how it connects local community and fosters wellbeing...

Forever Fashion

Move over fast fashion! Sara Whatley finds a few ways to make your wardrobe more beautiful, functional and most importantly, greener than ever...

Sustainable Spring Cleaning

Why not make your spring-clean one that’s toxin free? Courtney Holm offers five home cleaning products that you can make from scratch using products that you might find in your pantry...

Community News

Hefty £4m Cost Of East Grinstead Parking Extension Revealed

Building an extra level of parking spaces at an East Grinstead car park would cost around £3.9m, Mid-Sussex councillors have been told...

Brighton And Hove Mayor's Term Ends After Hundreds Of Engagements

The current mayor of Brighton and Hove is due to step down from his ceremonial role this week after attending more than 200 events during his year in office...

Seasonal Water Quality Testing Begins At Sussex Beaches

Environment Agency monitoring of the 56 designated bathing waters in Sussex has started ahead of summer...

Historic Milestone For Hastings As Becca Horn Announced First Green Mayor

Milestone for Hastings Borough Council as it proudly elects its first Green Mayor, Becca Horn...

Hidden Membership

NEW FOR 2025: Win A Family Pass To The Bluebell Railway Model Railway Weekend

Back for 2025, we've got TWO family passes up for grabs to this fun weekend from June 28th - 29th at Sheffield Park station and Horsted...

Win a Bignose and Beardy Cider Gift Hamper

We're pleased to be teaming up with the fantastic Bignose & Beardy Sussex cidery once more to offer this fantastic prize including a...

Win A Family Ticket To The South Of England Show 2025!

We're so pleased to once more have FIVE family passes up for grabs to this brilliant annual show with so much family fun! At the South of...

Win A Family Ticket To The Garden Show At Firle Place

We've got SIX family tickets to offer to this brilliant annual event with fun for all the family! Taking place 18-20 April, The Garden...

Stuff We Like!

It’s a Dog’s Life: Garden Helpers

A lovely garden is the perfect summertime play park for canines and Teddy is inclined to agree...

Five Stunning Hidden Waterfalls in the UK

Think you need to go abroad to find jaw-dropping waterfalls? Think again. The UK is home to some of the most breath-taking cascades...

Five Tricky Tongue Twisters To Impress Your Friends

Ready to tie your tongue in knots and leave your friends speechless (or laughing)? Tongue twisters are a brilliant way to test your...

Playtime: Little Green Heroes

For our green issue Sara Whatley discovers the joys of family litter picking, as they all become little green heroes on their very own doorstep...

Food And Drink

Recipe: Spicy Tomato Pasta Salad

As we head into summer, it's time for fresh, seasonal flavours and a kaleidoscope of colourful ingredients...

Recipe: Traditional Hot Cross Buns

Instead of buying from the supermarket, why not make these brilliant buns at home? Hot cross buns are an Easter favourite, so your guests are sure to be impressed...

Easy Peasy Apple Tarts

These simple but delicious apple tarts are made with ready made all-butter puff pastry with hints of cinnamon and sweet apricot jam

Super Salmon & Spinach En Croûte

This classic recipe is it quick and easy to make, but also tastes great and is ideal for any time of the year

Home And Garden

Blooming Times: Sociable Climbers

There’s a group of plants that’s often overlooked – annual climbers. These fast-growing characters are easy to propagate from seed. Give them a sunny, sheltered spot and they’ll perform all summer long, says Flo Whitaker