We hope you like our new 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.

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 2008: 

Saturday 14th June

Fremington Garden Trail In aid of Children's Hospice: 14 gardens in the village will be open and you can get a map/ticket from Fremington Church Hall for £3 per person. We are open from 10am until 5pm.


We are pleased to announce the dates of our NGS openings which will be
Sunday 24th August
Monday 25thAugust
Sunday 31st August
Sunday 7th September
Sunday 14th September

After a year off we are looking forward to meeting NGS visitors again.


 Thanks to all those who came to the talk at Fremington gardening club, braving the weather and missing the Manchester United game. (Special thanks to the kind gentleman who gave me a lengthy critique of my powerpoint skills afterwards.)

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported us on Saturday.  I hope you all enjoyed your visit.  It was typical that Passiflora "Kew Gardens" opened a flower at about 6pm after everyone had gone.  And by the way I did make a mistake at the talk with P. Belottii, the picture was P.Allardii(see pictures on this site). The refreshments raised £38 for Devon Air Ambulance (I'll take the spare cakes and biscuits into work on Monday to hopefully get the total to £40). Actually thanks to the generosity and/or appetite of Dawn's work colleagues it came closer to £60!

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