Bocombe Mill Cottage

An organic garden with
a long circular walk in North West Devon

Bocombe Mill Cottage, Bocombe,
Near Clovelly, Devon
EX39 5PH

Phone:
01237 451293

Owners:
Chris Butler & David Burrows

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Most Recent Entries

Looking Good 20 May 2019	posted: 20/5/2019 at 07:29:44
Clematis montana are at their peak! We’ve many of them through whites to pinks and soft reds, scrambling through trees, over the Japanese Pavilion and often hanging languidly down from ... Read More

Looking Good 13 May 2019	posted: 13/5/2019 at 20:45:28
A host of planting is underway to bring our garden into a unified beauty for our openings in around 10 days time… But is it the weather for planting ... Read More

Looking Good 6 May 2019	posted: 7/5/2019 at 09:51:07
Disaster….. The Otter has found our new pond and is helping itself to our fish! It seems as though another Colditz type barrier is the only solution. We already ... Read More

Looking Good 29 April 2019	posted: 29/4/2019 at 19:53:27
What a week of weather… Climate change? Bocombe’s garden anecdotes fully support the notion of changing weather patterns. From the Easter weekend of record high temperatures over the whole ... Read More

Looking Good 22 April 2019	posted: 22/4/2019 at 07:15:49
Continuing the theme of weather in the garden and climate change, last week Farming Today (that early morning radio programme) discussed at length the (calculated) 10% of UK greenhouse gases ... Read More

Looking Good 15 April 2019	posted: 15/4/2019 at 08:31:06
Is our weather changing? I looked back at what I wrote on our web site nine years after we started our garden at Bocombe. I came to the conclusion (History ... Read More

Looking Good 8 April 2019	posted: 9/4/2019 at 07:46:42
Everything at Bocombe is much earlier this year! The first bluebells have been in flower for almost a week. Broad Beans are in flower too…. Flowering is almost a ... Read More

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