The Round Hill Society

The Round Hill Society organised the Garden Picnic 2016 (pictured above) as well as two Open Gardens events:

Picture Galleries for 2005 event and 2006 event.

The following section includes items on sustainability, wildlife and notes on visual aspects of the Round Hill landscape. Some articles have been taken from past issues of 'The Round Hill Reporter' which can be downloaded (in PDF format) from here. Several of these are written by Jan Curry, one of our longest serving committee members and owner of the garden pictured above.

Wildlife gardening
A wild past - and future? by David Hodd (Round Hill Crescent)
from The Round Hill Reporter" October 2001

Wild about the place by Jan Curry (Richmond Road)
from The Round Hill Reporter August 2002

Earth as hard as iron, water like a stone by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter December 2002

Wildlife on Round Hill by Rob Stephenson (Upper Lewes Road)
from The Round Hill Reporter September 2003

Notes from a wildlife garden by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter December 2003

Plants for your wildlife garden by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter March 2004

The swifts are back - so it must be summer! by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter June 2004

Taking part in The Chelsea Flower Show
by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter September 2004

We can all be conservationists this winter - it costs peanuts! by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter December 2004

Gardens and wildlife under threat by Rob Stephenson
from The Round Hill Reporter December 2004

Spring has nearly sprung by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter March 2005

Flocking to the neighbourhood bird species spotted in Round Hill by Mike Unwin from The Round Hill Reporter June 2005

Trouble with my waterworks wildlife pond maintenance
by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter June 2005

A blooming success - participating in The RHS's first open gardens event by Terry Tidman from The Round Hill Reporter September 2005

Never kill a spider - Let me introduce you to another web site by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter September 2005

Have a merry robin - by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter December 2005

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed - living with grey squirrels by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter March 2006

Song thrushes and slow worms - protected species - by Vivien Eliades April 2006.

Flutterby, Butterfly - the importance of butterflies & moths - by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter June 2006

Round Hill Open Gardens 2006 our second Open Garden event
from The Round Hill Reporter September 2006

Opening your garden - should you do it? by Steve Bustin
from The Round Hill Reporter September 2006

Let's go to bed - how different creatures hibernate in Round Hill - by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter December 2006

'Fox Alert' and 'The return of the fox - 2006 and 2007 sitings in Richmond Road [Vivien] and Princes Road [Ted].

Aahhggs and Ooohhs in the wildlife garden - including frogs and toads - by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter March 2007

A sundial for your garden by Jackie Jones
from The Round Hill Reporter June 2007

The Humble Bee by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter June 2007

A struggle to survive - with focus on blackbirds - by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter December 2007

Gulp! Sparrows to sparrow hawks by Jan Curry
from The Round Hill Reporter March 2008

It's the perfume that does it - attracting garden moths
by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter June 2008

Night crawlers should be our favourite garden friends
(night crawler = the name for a worm in earlier times)
by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter September 2008

RSPB Guide to Birdwatching by Mike Unwin (Round Hill resident)
reviewed by Rob in The Round Hill Reporter December 2008

Trees, please
by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter March 2009

From thorn bushes (scrub-bashing) to pullovers (shepherding)
by Vivien Eliades from The Round Hill Reporter March 2009

Gardeners raise hundreds for charities - a 'thank you' from Steve Bustin & John Williams The Round Hill Reporter September 2009

Woolly work in the Sussex hills - or what to do with all that wool? - by Vivien Eliades from The Round Hill Reporter December 2009

Green spaces face extinction - is it time to say goodbye to the city's gardens? - by Rob from The Round Hill Reporter March 2010

Green Hill - how long will wildlife habitat be valued in Round Hill? - by Rob from The Round Hill Reporter June 2010

Creating a wildlife garden from a derelict wilderness
by Jan Curry from The Round Hill Reporter March 2011

Nature Notes by Rob Stephenson
from The Round Hill Reporter March 2012

Gardening Club - would you be interested? Contact our chair (Annie Rimington) from The Round Hill Reporter December 2012

Red in tooth and claw - a tale of the unexpected by Sandy Thomas from The Round Hill Reporter October 2013

Mayo Court gardening project - by Deborah French and Helen Ashdown from The Round Hill Reporter October 2013

Seedy Business - Tales from an allotment shed by Warren Carter: interviews with people who knew Moulsecoomb and Hollingdean (circa WWII) when they were largely rural areas. Our greener past.

Moulsecoomb Forest Garden Wildlife Action Plan - Although Round Hill has no public open space, parts of this plan may inspire residents in their own gardening or in attempts to green our neighbourhood.

 

Fauna

RSPB's Birdwatch 

Big Garden Birdwatch, the world's largest wildlife survey.Click here to go to the RSPB's site.

See Rob Stephenson's review of RSPB Guide to Birdwatching by local resident, Mike Unwin.  

Typical birds that you can find in UK towns & cities include starling, house sparrow, blackbird, robin and peregrine falcon.