Kiplingiana

[poliphilo]

The Elms, Rottingdean, Kipling's home, 1897-1903.

The Elms is in private hands, but the walled gardens- occupying a large area in the centre of the village and now called Kipling Gardens- belong to the local Preservation Society and are open to the public free of charge.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Nice place, Rottingdean- Copper family territory too, of course.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I imagine the gardens are a touch more photogenic when we're not in this relatively dismal season? Rather cool they're open to the public, even if the house isn't. (Reminds me, I should try a bit of a writeup of the recent Edinburgh trip!)

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

That last photo is wonderfully atmospheric. So nice that something is blooming in February.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My grandparents lived there in the 60s.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, we've made a note to go back in the spring.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

We're enjoying an early spring. There's a magnolia in a neighbour's garden that's about to flower.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Oh, so pretty - what are the little yellow flowers??

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I have absolutely no idea. I don't believe I've ever seen their like before.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I use to live in the next town to there in Saltdean.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We drove through Saltdean this afternoon.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

It is lovely.

I love the brick pathway. When I was a young girl we had a little wooded area near the garden. At some point there must have been a brick structure on the property as there were a lot of bricks lying around on the building site. My mom and I cleaned up all the underbrush and broken branches and other trash and used the bricks to edge little dirt paths through the woods and planted wild flowers along the paths.

We dug up wild flowers like Dutchman's britches, dog-toothed violets, and blood roots from other woods and planted them along the path. It was a magical place for me. I played out there a lot as a child.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That sounds lovely.

I prefer wild flowers to cultivated ones.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

That is a beautiful garden. I love walled gardens, ever since I read The Secret Garden as a child. It doesn't matter whether they're tame or wild, I love the feeling of seclusion.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This one is a positive maze of walls. We've already agreed to go back and explore it when the weather is better.