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 15 July 2019	posted: 15/7/2019 at 19:53:26
Our garden is alive with aromas of the mid-year…. The collection of roses climbing around our White Pergola waft sweet odours on our entrance steps. The climbing roses through ... Read More

Looking Good 8 July 2019	posted: 9/7/2019 at 08:26:23
Around this time last year I commented on the long spell of dry weather – and here we are again! This last dry-ish winter has meant that the ground has ... Read More

Looking Good 1 July 2019	posted: 1/7/2019 at 20:14:46
A return visit to Lewis Cottage last week - a garden that opens for the NGS too! And in many ways similar to our garden here at Bocombe, but of ... Read More

Looking Good 24 June 2019	posted: 25/6/2019 at 15:13:29
Last week’s private visit from the Ewell Horticultural Association was our biggest this year – a large coach party! On departing one gentleman asked "Are you Buddhists?" (we now have a ... Read More

Looking Good 17 June 2019	posted: 19/6/2019 at 07:05:32
Now’s the time to see Roses in our garden. And not a modern rose in sight… Some have been a tad late this year, but they’re all bursting their buds ... Read More

Looking Good 10 June 2019	posted: 11/6/2019 at 06:55:19
Our goat manure provides one of the best forms of organic fertiliser available. But containing plastic pollution? In my garden? That’s right. Not looking so good as one thought! Along with ... Read More

Looking Good 3 June 2019	posted: 4/6/2019 at 08:21:31
Rain at last. We’ve had a little this spring – probably a lot compared with the South East, but last night it poured all night. Just 6 hours earlier than ... Read More

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