Time Off - Local Garden Visits Three Devon gardens you must visit this summer...
1. Tamarisks, Hope Cove
Winding lanes lead to amazing views out to sea from this exciting sloping garden with its stonework, ponds and a waterfall, rockeries, colourful plantings of hydrangeas, lavender, sedum and roses. It shows not only what can be grown right next to the sea, but how to attract butterflies and birds (a share of the admission charges goes to
Amazing views out to sea from this exciting sloping Hope Cove garden
Butterfly Conservation and BTO Birdwatch, apart from the NGS).
Owner Barbara
Anderson rose to the challenge of this cliffside location when she bought the property 30 years ago, creating a half-acre haven for flowers and wildlife with terraces, a green roof on an outbuilding carpeted with sedums, thrifts, saxifrage and lewisias, a chequerboard area for herbs, even a small fruit garden. Coming from South Africa, she has displays of Bulbine and Leonotis as well as sea holly, wildflowers, and in the conservatory, bougainvillea and passionflower.
Location: Tamarisks, Inner Hope Cove, Kingsbridge TQ7 3HH. Off at A381 between Kingsbridge & Salcombe and drive to Inner Hope. Open: Thurs 15th & Fri 16th July, 11am – 6pm. Visitors also welcome by appointment. Admission: £2.50, children free. Plants for sale. Telephone: 01548 561745 or email
bba@talktalk.net See NGS Yellow Book entry for directions or visit
www.ngs.org.uk
2. Whitstone Farm, Bovey Tracey
More stunning views – this time of Haytor and Dartmoor – from this three-acre steep hillside garden. The arboretum is nearly 40 years old, with around 250 specimen trees from all over the world. For August visitors the stars are the flowering eucryphias – 23 different varieties. Owners Katie & Alan Bunn have applied to become the first holders of a National Collection of eucryphias in England.
Whitstone Farm for August visitors the stars are the flowering eucryphias
TQ13 9NA. Open: Suns 25th July & 15th August, 2pm – 5pm. Visitors also welcome by appointment for groups. Admission: £3, children free. No dogs. Teas and plants for sale. Accommodation available. Telephone: 01626 8322258, email katie@whitstonefarm.
co.uk See Yellow Book entry for directions or visit
www.ngs.org.uk
3. Coombe Trenchard, Lewtrenchard
A wonderful Edwardian Arts and Crafts garden, Coombe Trenchard has been rescued from near dereliction by owners Philip and Sarah Marsh. Its first public charity opening was last year for the RNLI, being repeated this year, but also is a new open garden for the NGS, having already opened in May for the Red Cross. The kitchen garden and the woodland areas were jungles, but many of the original features, terraces, garden buildings, bridges and paths were intact. This is now a transformed, elegant garden once again.
Coombe Trenchard has been rescued from near dereliction
Location: Coombe Trenchard, Lewtrenchard EX20 4PW. 14 miles N of
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Tavistock and W of Okehampton. Open: Sat 17th & Sun 18th July (for NGS); 26th September (RNLI), all 2pm – 5pm. Visitors also welcome by appointment. Admission: £4, children free. Cream teas. Dogs welcome on leads. Telephone: 01566 783179 or email
coombetrenchard@btinternet.com or visit the website for directions & information
www.coombetrenchard.co.uk
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