East Ruston Old Vicarage
Cornfield
One of the most thrilling parts of the garden is the cornfield, in its season, which contains a mixture of the cornfield weeds of yesteryear evoking memories of our happy childhood when the world seemed a better place. To quote the late Christo Lloyd "One of the most effective deliberate cornfield displays that I have seen is at the Old Vicarage, East Ruston. Here the owners, Graham Robeson and Alan Gray, omit corn cockle from the standard mix. In fact they adjust their mix, varying the proportions of each ingredient according to the performance of the previous display. If, for instance, cornflowers were weak, they add more of that. In some cases they need no seed at all, as there is sufficient seed bank in the soil from previous seasons".
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