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Owner: National Trust Address: Broadclyst Exeter Postcode: EX5 3LE County: Devon tel: 01392-881345 fax: 01392-883112 website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/killerton email: killerton //at// nationaltrust.org.uk English Heritage Grade: II* Opening Times: NOTE for 2012: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/killerton Garden / Park: All year, 10:30 - 7, Sun - Sat Last admission 30mins before closing Best Times of Year to Visit: Spring and early Summer To see: Bulbs, Rhododendrons and Azaleas. National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: 12th Feb - 11th Mar; daily; 12noon - 4pm 12th Mar - 31st Oct; daily; 11am - 5pm 3th Dec - 23rd Dec; daily; 2pm - 4pm Admission Prices: Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets) House , garden and park: adult £9 (£8.15), child £4.50 (£4.05), family £22 (£20), family (1 adult and 3 children) £13.85 (£12.50). Garden and park: adult £6.50 (£5.90), child £3.25 (£2.80). Park only: adult £2.50 (£2.25), child £1.25 (£1.10). Whole estate: adult £15 (£13.60), child £7.50 (£6.80). Reduced rate when arriving by bicycle or public transport. Garden and park: reduced rate November to January Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: Yes Other Facilities: Dogs on lead in parkland only. No access for disabled to first floor of house. Specially adapted buggies (with drivers) give less able visitors the chance to view the sloped gardens. Many special garden events - see own website. Restaurant open on occasion in Dec, Jan & Feb. Features: Ice House, Rock garden, Chapel. Fine 18th-century house with costume collection, hillside garden and estate; Home to the 'Paulise de Bush' costume collection, with over 9,000 outfits; Delightful hillside garden featuring rhododendrons, magnolias, and rare trees; Stunning parkland walks all year round, Home-cooked, good quality regional food in tea-room and restaurant; Plant centre selling produce grown in peat-free compost Designer: John Veitch Description of Garden: A beautiful hillside garden for all seasons. In early spring, the grass slopes are successively carpeted with spring bulbs and wild flowers, whilst magnolia, crimson and pink rhododendron and sweetly scented azalea flower above. The herbaceous and tender borders are at their best in summer and in autumn the specimen trees flame into colour. Even in winter, there is always something to see. Killerton is a plantsman's paradise, with rare trees and shrubs from around the world, many of them the first of their kind to be planted in this country. Other special features of the garden include the thatched Bear's Hut, which once housed a Canadian black bear, a rock garden and the ice house, used in Victorian times for storing ice cut from ponds on the estate. History: Sir Thomas Dyke Acland started the collection of trees at Killerton when he planned a landscape park to surround the new house he had built in the 1770s. His gardener and land steward was John Veitch who developed into an exceptional landscaper. The Veitch family, who started a nursery at nearby Budlake, were amongst the first to send plant hunters out to gather new species from the wild and, in fact the association between the Aclands and Veitches, whereby new plants were continually added to the collection at Killerton, was maintained until 1939 (with the exception of a period of 30 years after Sir Thomas's death). A giant sequoia from the west coast of America, which still stands at Killerton was grown from seed sent back by Veitch's collector William Lobb in the 1850s. Local Inns: Five Bells, Clyst Hydon Jack in the Green, Rockbeare Red Lion, Broadclyst Accomodation: Many in Exeter Restaurants: Jack in the Green, Rockbeare Village/Town/Sightseeing: Exeter Dartmoor