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Gardens in South West England, such as Marwood Hill Gardens and Bicton Park Botanical Gardens are listed below.

Marwood Hill Gardens

Marwood Hill Gardens, Marwood, Barnstaple, Devon

Marwood, Barnstaple

Award Winning ´Garden of Excellence´ - Marwood Hill is a private 20 acre informal garden with three lakes, plant centre and garden tea room set in a sheltered valley. With extensive collections of camellias under glass and in the open. Three national... more

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, East Budleigh, Devon

East Budleigh

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens span nearly 300 years of horticultural history. These magnificent gardens are set in East Devon´s picturesque Otter Valley. Registered in the Grade I conservation category by English Heritage, this privately owned... more

Mount Edgcumbe House & Gardens

Mount Edgcumbe House & Gardens, Cremyll, Torpoint, Cornwall

Cremyll, Torpoint

Mount Edgcumbe Gardens were created beside the Tudor House in the 18th century. Ancient and rare trees including a 400 year old lime, a splendid Lucombe oak, and a Mexican pine, are set amidst classical garden houses and an exotic Shell Seat.... more

Hestercombe Gardens

Hestercombe Gardens, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset

Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton

Hestercombe is unique in having three complete period gardens covering fifty acres. The Georgian landscape, Victorian terrace and the formal Edwardian gardens combine to create one of Britain´s premier garden sites widely recognised as being of... more

Stone Lane Gardens Arboretum

Stone Lane Gardens Arboretum, Chagford, Newton Abbot, Devon

Chagford, Newton Abbot

Stone Lane Gardens is a 5 acre arboretum situated in the Dartmoor National Park. It holds an important National Collection of Birch and Alder trees in a landscaped and water setting. Popular sculpture exhibition held in garden during summer.... more

Clovelly Court Gardens

Clovelly Court Gardens, Clovelly, Bideford, Devon

Clovelly, Bideford

After the exertions of climbing up and down the village, it’s easy to forget to pop into Clovelly Gardens. But this lovely little Victorian Walled Garden, entered through ornate wrought-iron gates, is a treat just as much for keen gardeners as it is... more

Lamorran House

Lamorran House, Upper Castle Road, St Mawes, Cornwall

Upper Castle Road, St Mawes

The gardens at Lamorran House were originally laid out in the 1980s by the present owners. With a large collection of palms and rare tree ferns, rhododendrons and evergreen azaleas the garden is situated on the Roseland Peninsula with panoramic views... more

Caerhays Castle Gardens

Caerhays Castle Gardens, Gorran, St Austell, Cornwall

Gorran, St Austell

Caerhays Gardens was originally planted out in the early 1900s with mainly rhododendrons. Since then other plants have been introduced such as magnolias and camellias. This peaceful, tranquil garden covers approx. 100 acres and is at its best in... more

The Walled Gardens of Cannington

The Walled Gardens of Cannington, Church Street, Bridgwater, Somerset

Church Street, Cannington, Bridgwater

Having undergone extensive redevelopment over the past few years, the Walled Gardens were officially opened by HRH Prince Edward. The Gardens lie within the grounds of a mediaeval Priory, and many of its fine buildings remain. The Gardens have... more

Barrington Court

Barrington Court, Barrington, Ilminster, Somerset

Barrington, Ilminster

Barrington Court garden created by Gertrude Jekyll in 1917 towards the end of her career, is a garden of different character rooms. The `hot´ room is planted with Lilies, Dahlias and vibrant orange, red and yellow annuals around a pool. There is also... more

Tiverton Castle Gardens

Tiverton Castle Gardens, Park Hill, Tiverton, Devon

Park Hill, Tiverton

Tiverton Castle Gardens: Beautiful walled gardens and romantic ruins making a wonderful backdrop. A Spring bulb border has colourful and unusual bulbs. A brightly coloured summer border round the house has some rare shrubs and bedding plants. A... more

Prior Park Landscape

Prior Park Landscape, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, Somerset

Ralph Allen Drive, Bath

Prior Park is a beautiful and intimate 18th century landscape garden, created by local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph Allen with advice from the poet Alexander Pope and Capability Brown. The garden is set in a sweeping valley with magnificent... more

Dunster Castle

Dunster Castle, Dunster, Minehead, Somerset

Dunster, Minehead

Dunster Castle has a hilltop garden, lawn and interesting rare shrub borders. Below there are formal woodland terraces and along the river, opulent sub-tropical plantings of Camellias, Rhododendrons and Azaleas. The season begins with thousands of... more

Trebah Garden

Trebah Garden, Mawnan Smith, Falmouth, Cornwall

Mawnan Smith, Falmouth

Trebah Garden is a 25 acre sub-tropical ravine garden, falling 200 feet from the 18th century house to a private beach on the Helford River. A stream cascades over waterfalls through ponds full of Koi Carp, and exotic water plants wind through... more

Pencarrow

Pencarrow, Washaway, Bodmin, Cornwall

Washaway, Bodmin

Pencarrow has 50 acres of gardens include the Italian Gardens, lovely lawns with magnificent specimen trees, woodland walks and lots of flowering plants and shrubs. In spring the gardens and mile-long carriage drive are ablaze with camellias,... more

The Garden House

The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton, Devon

Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton

The Garden House has inspired numerous celebrity gardeners over the years and once you step foot in this Devon valley idyll, you’ll see why. The garden is actually several gardens in one, stretched across ten acres, all with their own personalities... more

Bosvigo

Bosvigo, Bosvigo Lane, Truro, Cornwall

Bosvigo Lane, Truro

Bosvigo is not a typical Cornish garden. Mainly herbaceous garden, at its best from June onwards. A series of walled or enclosed `rooms´ surround the mellow Georgian house (not open to the public). Each `room´ has its own colour theme. There is a... more

Tyntesfield

Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Bristol, Somerset

Wraxall, Bristol

Tyntesfield, the original garden is thought to have been laid out in the 1840´s. Currently there is a huge restoration project underway to bring this impressive estate back to its former glory. The garden is Grade II* listed and is one of the top 500... more

Castle Hill Gardens

Castle Hill Gardens, Castle Hill, Barnstaple, Devon

Castle Hill, Filleigh, Barnstaple

Created back in 1730, Castle Hill Gardens bears all the hallmarks of a country house estate lavished with attention, love and care. Visitors travel to this North Devon haven to stroll around the woodland garden (a gorgeous patchwork of reds and golds... more

Lanhydrock

Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Cornwall

Bodmin

Lanhydrock garden overlooks the valley of the River Fowey. Set on a hillside facing north-east above the house and park with bold, formal, Victorian lawns, lines of topiary yews, roses, herbaceous borders and vibrant bedding, and is flanked by... more

Greencombe Gardens

Greencombe Gardens, Porlock, Somerset

Porlock

Greencombe is a post-war garden, having been started in 1946 by Horace Stroud. It is a strip of 3.5 acres on the edge of ancient woodland. The light comes from the north, with a sweep of sky down to the Bristol Channel. To the south rise wooded... more

Trelissick Garden

Trelissick Garden, Feock, Truro, Cornwall

Feock, Truro

The tranquil Trelissick Garden originally planted in 1937, contains a superb collection of tender and exotic plants. Beautifully positioned at the head of the Fal estuary, the estate commands panoramic views over the sea and has extensive park and... more

Tresco Abbey

Tresco Abbey, Tresco, Isles of Scilly

Tresco, Isles of Scilly

Tresco Abbey Gardens defies all the preconceptions regarding what can and cannot be grown in rain-soaked, frost-cursed Britain. A perennial Kew without the glass hosting 20,000 plants. The garden is home to species from 80 countries ranging from... more

Carminowe Valley Garden

Carminowe Valley Garden, Tangies, Helston, Cornwall

Tangies, Helston

The Carminowe River dissects the 3½ acre site as it tumbles over weirs and under bridges. A natural woodland walk can be taken through hazel, holly, oak and ash. A large pond, fern hollow and rhododendron walk leads through part of the wooded area ... more

Greenway

Greenway, Greenway Road, Brixham, Devon

Greenway Road, Galmpton, Brixham

Greenway is a secret woodland garden, situated on the banks of the River Dart. A garden of exceptional beauty with an atmosphere of romantic wilderness and mystery, and is currently under restoration. The pleasant rambling paths scattered with... more

Cothay Manor

Cothay Manor, Greenham, Wellington, Somerset

Greenham, Wellington

The gardens at Cothay Manor are five miles west of Wellington, hidden in the high-banked lanes of Somerset. Virtually unchanged in 500 years, this sleeping beauty sits on the banks of the River Tone within its 12 acres of magical gardens. The gardens... more

The Bishop's Palace & Gardens

The Bishop's Palace & Gardens, Wells, Somerset

Wells

Bishop's Palace & Gardens: Find us in the centre of the historic City of Wells, step across the drawbridge and discover the splendour of the medieval Palace before you. Beyond the 13th century building lies 14 acres of gardens, springs and arboretum,... more

Trewithen

Trewithen, Grampound Road, Truro, Cornwall

Grampound Road, Truro

The internationally renowned gardens at Trewithen, near Truro in Cornwall, are a botanical treasure trove featuring a magnificent collection of camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons as well as other rare and highly-prized plants. Nestled within 30... more

Milton Lodge

Milton Lodge, Old Bristol Road, Wells, Somerset

Old Bristol Road, Wells

Milton Lodge has charming Grade II listed gardens with south facing terraces overlooking Wells Cathedral and the Vale of Avalon with mixed borders, roses, yew hedges, fine trees and a separate 7 acre arboretum. Originally laid out in the early 1900s... more

Trengwainton Garden

Trengwainton Garden, Madron, Penzance, Cornwall

Madron, Penzance

The sheltered 20th century Trengwainton Garden has an abundance of exotic trees and shrubs. Intimate and closely linked to the picturesque stream running through its valley, the garden contains a rich collection of speciality acacias and large-leaved... more

RHS Garden Rosemoor

RHS Garden Rosemoor, Great Torrington, Devon

Great Torrington

Set in the verdant Torridge Valley in Devon, RHS Garden Rosemoor is an award-winning garden with glorious displays for every season, meaning people return time and again for ideas, inspiration or simply to enjoy a marvellous day out. From Lady Anne´s... more

Fast Rabbit Farm Gardens

Fast Rabbit Farm Gardens, Strawberry Valley, Dartmouth, Devon

Strawberry Valley, Dartmouth

Three miles from Dartmouth, deep in the South Devon countryside, sits Fast Rabbit Farm Gardens. Back in 1989, the owners began to create a garden in a sheltered valley called Strawberry Valley and from those humble beginnings you will now find 15... more

Pinetum Park & Pine Lodge Gardens

Pinetum Park & Pine Lodge Gardens, Holmbush, St Austell, Cornwall

Holmbush, St Austell

The 30 acre Pinetum Park & Pine Lodge Gardens, comprises gardens within a garden, which hold a wide range of some 6000 plants, all of which are labelled. In addition to rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias - so familiar in Cornish gardens - there... more

Heligan - The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Heligan - The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Pentewan, St Austell, Cornwall

Pentewan, St Austell

The Lost Gardens of Heligan: Unveiled in 1992 from under decades of overgrowth, the Lost Gardens were restored on a shoestring budget and hailed by The Times as “…the garden restoration of the century”. Today the mysterious gardens and estate offer... more

Prideaux Place Garden

Prideaux Place Garden, Padstow, Cornwall

Padstow

Prideaux Place, situated above the port of Padstow, has been the home of the Prideaux-Brune family for over 400 years. A massive restoration of the grounds is now underway to restore this ancient garden to its former glory. Pretty woodland walks have... more

Arlington Court

Arlington Court, Arlington, Barnstaple, Devon

Arlington, Barnstaple

The 2700 acre Arlington Court estate and gardens nestles in the thickly wooded valley of the River Yeo. The 30 acre gardens are largely informal but include a small Victorian garden with conservatory, basket beds, herbaceous borders and ornamental... more

Antony

Antony, Torpoint, Cornwall

Torpoint

Antony house and gardens, an example of one of Cornwalls´ finest early 18th century houses, faced in lustrous silvery-grey Pentewan stone, offset by colonnaded wings of red brick and set within grounds landscaped by Repton. These include the formal... more

Knightshayes Garden

Knightshayes Garden, Bolham, Tiverton, Devon

Bolham, Tiverton

The celebrated Knightshayes Garden, was originally planned in the late 1870s and then replanted in the 1950s. Crisply-managed formal terraces and a rather formal woodland garden with a water lily pool and topiary, specimen trees, rare shrubs, swathes... more

Montacute House

Montacute House, Montacute, Yeovil, Somerset

Montacute, Yeovil

Montacute House and gardens is a simple, elegant, Elizabethan garden comprised largely of green spaces, of lawns and processions of clipped yews. Most memorable is the formal sunken lawn beside the house, fringed with borders of rich pinks and... more

Glendurgan

Glendurgan, Mawnan Smith, Falmouth, Cornwall

Mawnan Smith, Falmouth

Glendurgan is a valley garden of great beauty created in the 1820s and developed over many years by the Fox family. Running down to the tiny village of Durgan and its beach with fine views of the Helford River, it is predominantly a spring-time... more

Buckland Abbey

Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon

Yelverton

Buckland Abbey and gardens are the home of Drake and Grenville. A peaceful place full of swashbuckling stories, originally created in the 20th century. You will find a magnificent 30-metre-long monastic barn, a charming herb garden with over 50... more

Tintinhull Garden

Tintinhull Garden, Farm Street, Yeovil, Somerset

Farm Street, Tintinhull, Yeovil

Tintinhull Garden is a classic 20th century English garden surrounding a 17th century manor house, of high formality overlaid with an opulent yet carefully contrived planting. With varied borders, attractive kitchen garden and secluded lawns all... more

Bonython Estate Gardens

Bonython Estate Gardens, Bonython Estate, Helston, Cornwall

Bonython Estate, Cury Cross Lanes, Helston

Bonython Estate Gardens has a modern and exotic horticultural twist, since new South African owners who took over in 1999, they have brought Bonython to the attention of garden lovers. Explore the South African roots beneath the scorching display of... more

Castle Drogo

Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton, Devon

Drewsteignton

Castle Drogo and its 1920s Lutyens garden is the highest owned by the National Trust at 823 metres and lies within shelter of trees and hedges. The terraced formal garden has an established rhododendron and magnolia collection, spring bulbs, summer... more

Killerton

Killerton, Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon

Broadclyst, Exeter

Killerton is a famous woodland hillside garden full of splendid old and special trees including innumerable record-breaking specimens, many introduced by the plantsman Veitch, rare shrubs, beautiful herbaceous borders, crocus, daffodils, bluebells,... more

Cotehele

Cotehele, St Dominick, Saltash, Cornwall

St Dominick, Saltash

Cotehele is a 19 acre large mature garden in two separate parts. The upper gardens surrounding the 16th century house contain a daffodil meadow, a formally planted terraced garden defined by walls and hedges, with magnolias, climbers, fine lawns,... more

Saltram

Saltram, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon

Plympton, Plymouth

Saltram was originally an 18th century landscape garden, featuring a fine orangery still used to produce a good collection of citrus fruit, and other buildings of the 1770s. Developments in the 19th century have continued to the present day, giving... more

Burrow Farm Gardens

Burrow Farm Gardens, Dalwood, Axminster, Devon

Dalwood, Axminster

Burrow Farm Gardens is a beautifully landscaped 10 acre garden, which will appeal to both the plantsman and those seeking a relaxing walk around a tranquil garden with extensive views. Sweeping lawns lead between island beds of unusual shrubs and... more

Coleton Fishacre Garden

Coleton Fishacre Garden, Coleton, Dartmouth, Devon

Coleton, Kingswear, Dartmouth

Coleton Fishacre Garden is delightful, with its formal terraces. A cultured oasis on the beautiful south Devon coast, with the stream gurgling from pool to pool through generous marginal plantings. The valley garden weaves down towards the sea, with... more

Trerice

Trerice, Kestle Mill, Newquay, Cornwall

Kestle Mill, Newquay

Trerice is a small rather formal garden, at its best in summer. Some unusual, rare plants, climbers, perennials and an orchard with old varieties of fruit trees. The Front Court has a gold and purple colour scheme. The hayloft behind the Great Barn... more

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