Our house, round which the house circuit runs, is a small bungalow now around 90 years old, built originally in a hop garden (aka hop field) a kilometre or so north of the village of Sedlescombe, East Sussex (UK). It is in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and covered administratively by Rother District Council. The Ordnance Survey Grid Reference is TQ78241883 or 50.94 latitude, 0.54 longitude.
The garden round the house has been developed without much specific planning since the house was built. After World War II my wife's parents bought it as a second home then came to live here. We have some roses from that period and probably some of the plants in the hedges have been there a very long time. The one to the west was probably in situ long before the house was built.
Our own interventions go back some 42 years and we still have many introduced plant species flourishing from each of the decades since 1970 as well as numerous wildlings that have found their own way here. It is untidy, delightful and home.
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