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Visits 2020
We have selected eight gardens in Somerset and Devon
 
Details about the gardens are listed below which we hope will whet your appetite.

 Most of the gardens we will be visiting will have a selection of plants on sale at attractive prices.
 
 
To simplify things for this year we will be charging a fixed £7.00 per seat, per trip on the community bus.  Any entrance fees to gardens will be on top of this.  We hope this makes for an easier arrangement.  We regret that the fixed charge is different to that previously advised but we understand that Somerset Council have now removed their subsidies on the community bus.

 
If you would like to book a seat for any of the trips please speak or email Jenny Boyce in the first instance.
 
 
Telephone : 01398 323463
 
 
email. boycejenny3@gmail.com

Click on the pictures for more information about the gardens

ALL FUTURE EVENTS ARE POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED AS SOON AS WE ARE ABLE TO ESTABLISH FIRM DATES
Tuesday  7th April 2020                         Chevithorn Barton, Tiverton
                                                                    
 
Newly planted areas complement a walled garden, summer borders and woodland of rare trees and shrubs. In spring, the garden features a large collection of magnolias, camellias and rhododendrons. Home to the National Collection of Quercus (Oaks) comprising over 440 different taxa. From time to time within the gardens are a flock of Jacob sheep and rare breed woodland pigs.

Monday  4th May 2020                           Musselbrook Cottage, Petrockstowe   
                                                                        
 
A 1 acre naturalistic/wildlife/plantsman’s garden of all-season interest. Many rare and unusual plants on a sloping site. Nine ponds, stream, Japanese/Mediterranean gardens, wildflower meadow. Thousands of bulbs, hundreds of ericaceous plants including acers, rhododendrons, camellias, hydrangeas and magnolias. Grasses, dierama, crocosmia; a wildlife haven. Aquatic nursery including waterlilies.

 Wednesday  3rd June 2020                           Glebe Court, Monkton Elm, Taunton

 
A walled garden with greenhouses, orchard, vegetable plots, fruit trees and flower beds; herbaceous and shrub borders with some unusual trees. A series of ponds; 11 acres in all surrounding the Georgian Rectory.

Friday  3rd July 2020                          Linden Rise, Coombe Martin
 
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with countryside and sea views, a 1½ acre garden of lawns, mature trees and sea views. Children’s play area, pergola, decorative ponds, small orchard and seasonal flower borders.

 Tuesday  4th August 2020                               Hillcrest, Stoke St Gregory
 

The garden boasts stunning views of the Somerset Levels, Burrow Mump and Glastonbury Tor but even on a hazy day the 5 acre garden offers plenty of interest. Woodland walks, varied borders, flowering meadow and several ponds; also a kitchen garden, greenhouses, orchards and unique standing stone as a focal point. Most of the garden is level with a long, gently sloping path through a flower meadow to a lower pond and wood.

 Wednesday  2nd September 2020                       The Newt, Bruton, Castle Cary

 
For many years this historic country estate was under restoration and opened as visitor attraction incorporating its local heritage and curiously cultivated gardens.  The Newt – formerly Hadspen House – is a working estate with a focus on sustainability. The gardens take centre stage and at their core nestles a walled Parabola with a large collection of trained apple trees, arranged in a maze.  There is a wide range of cultivated areas including a kitchen garden, a fragrance garden, colour gardens, cascades, ponds and lakes.

Monday  5th October 2020                   Higher Cullaford, Crediton
                                                                  
 
A traditional cottage-style garden developed over the past 12 years from a steep field and farmyard on the northern edge of the Dartmoor National Park. Mixed borders of herbaceous plants, roses and shrubs. A 30ft pergola is covered with Seagull rose and many varieties of clematis. A wildlife pond, newly planted pleached hornbeam hedge. Additional vegetable garden with polytunnel, fruit cage and fruit trees.

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