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Our Gardens
Our new garden at Cove is now underway - we have 5 acres, including a water leat and various young copses of trees to play with! It's set in the beautiful Exe valley, just 4 miles north of Tiverton on the A396.
It's going to take a little while before we get everything sorted, moving during the month of August is not very sensible when moving thousands of plants! However, with the majority of our plants being herbacious - it shouldn't be long before we have something to show you.
The pictures below are of our first garden at our previous home at Turnpike Cottage. About 3/4 mile away from Devon's beautiful and dramatic 'Jurassic' south coast, just east of Sidmouth. At 154m high we were exposed to all winds and weathers!
We started in 1999 to reclaim the derelict long and narrow 3/4 acre site... and managed to tame most of the garden... each area with it's own style and range of plants.
Here are a few views...
The front garden
The long border
The glade...
Fan palms, date palms and other exotics braving the winter snows and wind in the Mediterranean garden!
The herb garden
Echium 'valley'