Arundel

Cabaña Verde opens in Arundel We are delighted to announce that Cabaña Verde will open its door at 21 Queen Street, Arundel, on the 30th October 2021. Cabaña Verde (the ‘Green Hut’) is the new hip and sustainable cafe and bar, bringing the people of Arundel a CBD experience like…

Quiet is not the same as silence, it is much more nuanced. Silence is an absence of sound, a void. It is alien and unsettling. Quiet is the distant, gentle, reassuring sounds of the world. Distant laughter, birdsong, the swish of grass. Sounds that comfort, rather than intrude. …

Making a fashionably late appearance after a year of hibernation, Arundel’s alliums gave the castle gardens a purple pom-pom pizzazz. — With their striking spherical silhouette and multitude of shades, alliums are one of my favourite flowers to photograph. And just like tulips which preceed them, they only look their very best for a short time, often as brief as two weeks. Unless it’s at the Chelsea Flower Show, judging the…

Now in its fourth year, the Earl’s Garden’s secondary floral event struggled to live up to its name — For me, the allure of alliums goes back a long way. I’ve been drawn to them for their geometric shape — those perfect balls of colour created with almost geometrical precision by their individual six-petalled star-shaped flowers.

Binsted in West Sussex is at the centre of a battle over the sustainability of British transport infrastructure — The High Court has just granted permission to hear a legal challenge to Highways England’s proposals to ‘improve’ the A27 trunk road through the South Downs National Park. The quarter of a billion pound plans have been controversial from their inception. The proposals, forced on the West Sussex region around…

It was the perfect day to photograph 65,000 tulips in the Earl’s Garden — If I’m not mistaken, this was Arundel Castle’s third annual tulip festival. Most are planted within the walls of the Earl’s Garden, but swathes of different tulips appear throughout the castle grounds. This year there were significantly more blooms, some 65,000, compared with 38,000 in 2017. To my knowledge, that…

The tulips came early this year in the Earl’s Garden — This year’s tulip festival was Arundel Castle’s biggest ever. Beginning last November, the castle’s garden team began planting the first of 38,000 tulips — 6,000 more than the previous year — making it, arguably, the country’s biggest tulip festival. Even so, few people actually know about it, including many of…