IVYBRIDGE
LUKELAND
Beautiful setting of small valley around Addicombe Brook with lakes,
numerous waterfalls and pools. Extensive and unusual collection of large
and small leaved rhododendrons and one of the largest Magnolia campbellii
in country
Tel: 01752 893390
EXETER.
CASTLE DROGO
This granite castle, perched on a moorland spur above the River Teign,
commands spectacular views of Dartmoor with a delightful formal garden
with roses and herbaceous borders, as well as spring flowers
Tel: 01647 433306 - Drewsteignton, nr Exeter EX6 6PB - Click
here for map
KILLERTON
18th Century house set in a magnificent 6,400 acre estate known as a
plantsman's paradise with something to see throughout the year.
Tel: 01392 881345
MARKER’S COTTAGE
A fascinating medieval cob house, containing a cross-passage screen
decorated with a painting of St Andrew and his attributes.
Tel: 01392 461546 - Broadclyst, Exeter EX5 3HR - Click
here for map
SHOBROOKE PARK GARDENS
15 acre woodland garden with daffodils, rhododendrons and roses with
extensive Portland Stone terraces with views over the park and ponds.
Crediton
POWDERHAM CASTLE & GARDENS
Medieval fortress set in an ancient deer park with lavish interiors,
gardens and grounds.
Tel: 01626 890243
EXMOUTH
A LA RONDE
A unique 16-sided house containing many 18th Century contents and collections
brought back by the Parminters which includes the fascinating interior
decoration includes a feather frieze and shell-encrusted gallery.
Tel 01395 265514 - Summer Lane, Exmouth EX8 5BD -
Click here for map
BICTON PARK
Sixty acres of botanical gardens, with museum, kids play area, nature
trail & train. The magnificent Palm House is 20 years older than
Kew's. Orangery Restaurant, gifts and plants.
Tel: 01395 568465
BURROW FARM
GARDEN
Secluded 6-acre garden of informal design with many unusual shrubs
and herbaceous plants. Pergola walk with shrub roses. Woodland with
rhododendrons and azaleas, ponds and large bog garden.
Dalwood
SHUTE BARTON
One of the most important surviving non-fortified manor houses of the
Middle Ages has battlemented turrets, late Gothic windows and a Tudor
gatehouse.
Tel: 01297 34692 - Shute, nr Axminster EX13 7PT - Click
here for map
SIDMOUTH
BUNDELS
1½ acre organic garden incl small wood and ponds with over 100 varieties
of old-fashioned and other shrub roses
Tel: 01395 597312 - Sidbury.
TIVERTON
KNIGHTSHAYES COURT
National Trust owned richly decorated Victorian Gothic mansion with
fine gardens featuring formal terraces, topiary, rare trees & shrubs.
Restaurant, gift shop and plant sales.
Tel: 01884 254665
SAMFORD
SHRUBS - HOLBROOK GARDEN - Our 2 acre garden is situated on the
South facing Holbrook Hill just outside Sampford Peverell, the soil
is heavy clay. Early interest includes wildflower meadow plantings with
cowslips and fritillaries and the woodland garden.
BARNSTAPLE
ARLINGTON COURT
The plain exterior of this house, built in neo-classical
style in 1822, include displays of model ships, costume, pewter, shells
and other fascinating objects surrounded by attractive gardens into
extensive parkland grazed by Shetland ponies and Jacob sheep
Tel: 01271 850296 - Arlington, nr Barnstaple EX31
4LP - Click
here for map
BROOMHILL SCULPTURE
GARDENS
International Contemporary Art Gallery, with 10 acres, 60 sculptors
and 300 sculptures lies in one of the most glorious valleys in North
Devon.
MARWOOD HILL
20 acres with 3 small lakes and an extensive collection of camellias
daffodils, rhododendrons, rare flowering shrubs, many clematis, Australian
native plants and many eucalyptus.
Marwood
WATERSMEET HOUSE
A fishing lodge, built c.1832 in a picturesque valley at the confluence
of the East Lyn and Hoar Oak Water, the site has been a tea-garden since
1901 and is the focal point for several beautiful walks - Tel 01598
753348 - Watersmeet Road, Lynmouth EX35 6NT - Click
here for map
BIDEFORD
DOCTON MILL AND GARDEN
Less than 1m from the sea, nestling in one of Devon's outstanding beauty
spots is this garden for all seasons (depicted on BBC, ITV and Channel
4's Garden Party)
Tel: 01237 441369 - Lymebridge Hartland, EX39 6EA - Click
here for map
HARTLAND ABBEY,
- Situated in an unspoilt valley leading to a remote Atlantic cove,
the Abbey offers peace and tranquility and also the woodland gardens,
fascinating secret 18th Century walled gardens, the Baronets Bog Garden.
Tel: 01237 441264 - Near Bideford , EX39 6DT- Click
here for map
TAPLEY PARK.
The Terraces are one of Tapeley Parks oldest and best known features.
Hand dug, the south facing walls and sheltered borders created by the
terracing are full of semi-tropical and tender flowers rarely seen in
the UK.
Tel: 01271 342558 - Instow, EX39 4NT
BRADWORTHY
THE GNOME
RESERVE & WILD FLOWER GARDEN
For a completely unique 100% fun experience,
simultaneously 100% ecologically interesting, with an extra 100% wonder
and magic mixed in, visit The Gnome Reserve.
CLOVELLY
CLOVELLY GARDEN COURTS
Victorian kitchen garden, with magnificent greenhouses, apricots, melons,
peaches nectarines, grapes, citrus fruits, figs, cucumbers, peppers,
chillies, aubergines and tomatoes are supplied to the hotels in season.
GREAT TORRINGTON
RHS GARDEN ROSEMOOR
New National Garden 40 acres set in the Torridge Valley with arboretum,
formal planting, potager & 200 varieties of Rose.
Tel: 01805 624067 - Gt Torrington, EX38 8PH - Click
here for map
THE DOWNES
15 acres with landscaped lawns, fine views overlooking fields and woodlands
in Torridge Valley, many unusual trees and shrubs, small arboretum,
woodland walks
Tel 01805 622244 - Monkleigh
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PLYMOUTH
THE GARDEN HOUSE BUCKLAND MONACHORUM
8 acres, including romantic, terraced walled garden surrounding the
ruins of C16 vicarage (not open). Acer glade, spring garden, rhododendron
walk, herbaceous glade, cottage garden and quarry garden
Tel: 01822 854769
BUCKLAND ABBEY
Tucked away in its own secluded valley above the River Tavy, Buckland
was Cistercian monastery with exhibitions on seven centuries of history
at Buckland, as well as a magnificent monastic barn, craft workshops,
herb garden and delightful estate walks.
Tel: 01822 853607 - Yelverton PL20 6EY - Click
here for map
PLYMPTON
SALTRAM HOUSE
Beautifully appointed 18th century mansion set in 500 acre landscaped
park & period garden. National Trust property features work by Adams,
Chippendale & Reynolds.
Tel: 01752 336546
SALCOMBE
OVERBECKS MUSEUM & GARDEN
National Trust. Collection of curios in Edwardian house with subtropical
gardens and views over the Salcombe Estuary
Tel: 01548 842893 - Sharpitor, Salcombe TQ8 8LW - Click
here for map
TOTNES
AVENUE COTTAGE
11 acres of woodland garden with secluded valley site undergoing re-creation.
Large collection of young and mature plants.
Tel: 01803 732769 - Ashprington
KINGSTON HOUSE
George II 1735 house grade II (not open). Walled garden, rose garden,
herbaceous borders, pleached limes and hornbeams, vegetable garden.
Tel: 01803 762235 - Staverton
NEWTON ABBOT
BRADLEY
A small medieval manor house, in a beautiful woodland and meadows setting.
Tel: 01626 354513 - Newton Abbot TQ12 6BN - Click
here for map
THE CHURCH HOUSE
Originally a brewhouse dating back to 1537, this
former village school is now leased as a village hall. The adjacent
Sexton’s Cottage is a NT shop and Dartmoor National Park information
point.
Tel: 01364 621321 - Widecombe
in the Moor, Newton Abbot TQ13 7TA - Click
here for map
PAIGNTON
COMPTON CASTLE
A magical fortified manor house, built between the 14th and 16th centuries
and home to the Gilbert family for most of the last six hundred years
with the dramatic towers and battlements shelter a stone courtyard,
medieval great hall, spiral staircase and minstrels’ gallery.
Tel: 01803 875740 - Marldon, Paignton TQ3 1TA - Click
here for map
TORQUAY
COLETON FISHACRE GARDENS
Very pretty
gardens surround the house and extend into a woodland garden complete
with spectacular cliff-top walk looking over the ocean.
Tel: 01803 752466 -
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here for map
TORRE ABBEY
Historic house and gallery historic rooms and Agatha Christie collection.
Abbey ruins, gatehouse and barn. Victorian kitchen serving refreshments.
Tel: 01803 293593
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