About the member known as Crosswater.

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My wife Tessa and I have lived for three years in an area of East Hampshire close to the Surrey border and Crosswater, Churt, a place of fond memories for me from my childhood. This is how I became fond of the heaths and the large gardens of the locality and the heather, scots pine and Rhododendron ponticum[!].
We have a third of an acre garden in Headley Down which sits in the corner of Ludshott Common [and which I usually refer to as the Headley Garden Suburb]. Our garden is half the size it once was but many are now a lot smaller having been subdivided more that once, since the site began as a place of weekend cottages for people wanting respite from London at the turn of the last century. Our ‘chalet bungalow’ was built in 1926.

Our garden was laid out mainly with borders of rhododendron, camelia and heathers surrounded by the large cherry-laurel hedges typical of the area. I would like it to be a bit wilder and include scots pines, so it is a bit formal but generally suits the grey acid sand of the area.
I am slowly adding compost to the soil, making sure it keeps its ericaceous ph and I have two scots pines [discreetly collected from the heaths] in containers!
Richard.

• 26 Aug, 2015
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