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Old 13-04-2008, 06:42 AM
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Just heard on the news, Leonardslee gardens in Sussex, which were used for the "exterior" scenes in Black Narcissus (1947), are up for sale - complete with the mob of wallabies that live there

See BBC News for the news report and the gardens themselves.

They're open every day from April to October and when the weather brightens up a bit I was planning on going down there to scout around and see if we could organise a "BN picnic"

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It's a beautiful place that will be especially worth a visit in just a few weeks when the rhododendrons (of which it has an abundance) are in flower.
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It's a beautiful place that will be especially worth a visit in just a few weeks when the rhododendrons (of which it has an abundance) are in flower.
Yes, it was started by an old British Raj, Indian colonial type who retired back to Blighty but wanted to remember some of the plants he'd liked in India. He had married into a family that owned that particular plot of land and set up the gardens there at the end of the 19th century, finding that part of Sussex was particularly suited to some of the "exotic" plants he brought back. It's been run by the Loder family for 5 or 6 generations but now the next generation have other interests.

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Yes, it was started by an old British Raj, Indian colonial type who retired back to Blighty but wanted to remember some of the plants he'd liked in India. He had married into a family that owned that particular plot of land and set up the gardens there at the end of the 19th century, finding that part of Sussex was particularly suited to some of the "exotic" plants he brought back. It's been run by the Loder family for 5 or 6 generations but now the next generation have other interests.

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Hopefully whoever buys it will carry it on as a publicly-accessible garden. We took our children there on several occasions when they were young. The wooded pathways and the lakes are a delight.
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Just heard on the news, Leonardslee gardens in Sussex, which were used for the "exterior" scenes in Black Narcissus (1947), are up for sale - complete with the mob of wallabies that live there

See BBC News for the news report and the gardens themselves.

They're open every day from April to October and when the weather brightens up a bit I was planning on going down there to scout around and see if we could organise a "BN picnic"

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I am up for a picnic, would love meet all you guys and gals
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If it's a Black Narcissus picnic then you'll have to come dressed as Mr Dean in the short shorts - or as a nun

I'll volunteer to be the wise old man who sits serenely on the hill while the young ladies queue up to feed him and who sits there placidly as all the craziness goes on all around him



I've been developing the belly for it

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If it's a Black Narcissus picnic then you'll have to come dressed as Mr Dean in the short shorts - or as a nun

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BN Picnic sounds good, and I can make further use of my nuns outfit which normally gets an airing at "The Sound of Music" sinagalongs...
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