We hope you like our site about our subtropical garden in Devon, and if you have previously visited the garden we would love to hear your feedback. The site is constantly* being updated and added to so please come back and see what we've been up to.I have tried to make the site easier to use by putting a lot of the photos in galleries. This makes it easier to load the other pages. Let me know what you think.

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Welcome to our North Devon Garden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The view from the gate

We have been opening our garden for the past five years in aid of various charities. The garden is 100ft by 50ft and the soil is heavy clay. Our part of Devon experiences some frost, but rarely below -5 degrees Celsius or lasting more than a couple of days. During these openings we have been asked for more details about the plants and garden. Neither of us has any qualifications in horticulture so any information here is based on our own limited experience and what we have gleaned from experts. Incidentally all photos on this site were taken in our garden and greenhouses. We hope you enjoy the site and hope to see some of you at our openings. We would welcome any feedback on the plants or the garden.
Dawn and Steve

Garden Openings 2010: 

The good news this year is that we are back in the Yellow Book this year. Our opening dates are

Sunday 22nd August

Sunday  29th August

Monday 30th August

Sunday 5th September

Sunday 12th September

We are also open  by appointment during August

We are hoping that the plants have coped with the cold weather, down to -12 at one point.


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News!

We can now put 'As featured on Radio Devon' as I was interviewed on Saturday (13th Feb) afternoon. I managed to rattle on for a few minutes and I suspect the DJ was relieved to get rid of me!

 

Here are some pictures to give you an idea of our style of gardening

We have no lawn at all. Instead we have various mulches on liner covering the improved (with mushroom compost and horse manure) soil.

We have a large range of hedychiums

 

and bananas

 

 

The garden also features cottage garden and prairie plants including a collection of rudbeckias