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Please use the following format and info on your own site to link to your page in Gardens-Guide.com: at Gardens-Guide.com http://www.gardens-guide.com The premiere directory of open gardens in the UK and Ireland today Ask your friends and suppliers as well to link to your page in Gardens-Guide as well. Every link we get into your page helps rankings for both of us in search engines. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Garden Name: Coleton Fishacre Garden Last Modified: 25-03-2012 Garden ID: 0223 pic: 0223_coleton.jpg NOTE: If this says "missing", then please send us a picture for your page which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Owner: National Trust Address: Brownstone Road Kingswear Dartmouth Postcode: TQ6 0EQ County: Devon tel: 01803-753010 fax: 01803 753 017 website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/coletonfishacre email: coletonfishacre //at// nationaltrust.org.uk English Heritage Grade: II Opening Times: 3rd Mar - 28th March, 10:30am - 5pm, Sat - Wed 31sh March - 26th Sept, 10.30am - 5pm, Sat - Thursday 29 Sep - 31 Oct, 10.30am - 5pm, Sat - Wed 3 Nov - 23 Dec, 11am - 4pm Open Good Friday. Last admission 30 minutes before closing. Best Times of Year to Visit: Spring - May/June Late Summer - August/Sept To see: Woodland garden with bulbs and wild flora Rill garden and terrace borders National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Must be pre-booked, call 01803 842382 Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: Admission Prices: Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets) Car: adult £9.75 (£8.75), child £5.40 (£4.90), family £24.20 (£22), family (1 adult and 2 children) £16.40 (£14.80). Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: Yes Only on Lead: Yes Events: Yes Other Facilities: New 'behind the scenes' areas and hands-on room. Guided garden walks every afternoon. Quizzes and trails for both house and garden. Jazz events, open-air theatre and much more. Dogs: dogs on leads welcome in garden on designated dog route (map available at reception) * Soak up the gorgeous Art Deco style in the house. * Play the BlŸthner piano in the Saloon. * Explore the network of pathways through the valley garden. Features: A luxuriant garden by the sea, with an Arts & Crafts-style house, featuring Art Deco-influenced interiors; RHS accredited garden, rare and exotic plant collection set in a secluded coastal valley; Award-winning tea-room, Year-round interest Designer: Oswald Milne Description of Garden: This wonderful garden lies in a stream-fed valley above the South Devon coast. The mild climate, shelter belts and high humidity make the garden suitable for the widest range of plants, including some which can only survive in conservatories elsewhere in Britain. In the spring and early summer, wild flowers abound amid the colourful displays of rhododendron, camellia and azalea planted among the collection of tender and exotic plants. The formal terraces and Rill Garden provide summer long interest from half-hardy perennials and unusual climbers, including the Coral Plant (Berberidopsis corallina) and Chilean Mitre Flower (Mitraria coccinea). Paths wind through clumps of bamboo, groves of mimosa, magnolias and other shrubs down to a small sea cove below. Anyone who loves plants will be entranced by this garden. History: Rupert and Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte commissioned Oswald Milne, a pupil of Edward Lutyens, to design the house and gardens for them, after they bought the estate in 1924. The D'Oyly Cartes chose the site for their house and garden after seeing it from the sea while sailing their yacht between Brixham and Dartmouth. They were both enthusiastic gardeners and experimented with trees and shrubs from around the world, a tradition which the Trust continues. Local Inns: Green Dragon, Stoke Fleming Manor Inn, Galmpton Ship Inn, Kingswear Accomodation: National Trust cottages: Chauffer's Flat, Coleton Barton 1 and 2, Higher Brownstone. Broome Court, Dartmouth Restaurants: CafŽ Coleton on site at Coleton Fishacre, and a wide selection in Dartmouth Village/Town/Sightseeing: Dartmouth and Dart Estuary Totnes, Paignton and Torquay