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

Welcome

Location

Opening times

The gardens

Circular walk

Photo diary

Garden history

Local places of interest

Blog

Press

Potting shed notes

Most Recent Entries

Looking Good 3 December 2018	posted: 4/12/2018 at 19:42:05
What’s “New” in December? The back end of this year has already been rather cold, and we had the earliest frost since we’ve lived at Bocombe – that’s over twenty ... Read More

Looking Good 5 November 2018	posted: 6/11/2018 at 11:19:36
What do you do when a contractor lets you down for a NEW garden feature? Rural Stonework & Landscapes Ltd have done just that! In 2107 we asked the company for ... Read More

Looking Good 24 September 2018	posted: 23/9/2018 at 19:35:25
Continuing our “upward” looking theme, we’re fortunate that many of our vistas look Upwards (rather than garden visitors just looking down at plants). We have a Hillside! Trees and shrubs ... Read More

Looking Good 17 September 2018	posted: 16/9/2018 at 10:23:31
Continuing our Upward Vistas -look up to Trees! We’ve a collection of exotic trees (including two Eucalyptus) now numbering well over 80 different species. Many, such as River Birch (Betula nigra), ... Read More

Looking Good 10 September 2018	posted: 9/9/2018 at 10:54:42
Continuing our upward vistas; we’ve introduced a few specimens of the only native Acer, Acer campestre, the Field Maple, which are not often found in the South West. Less often ... Read More

Looking Good 3 September 2018	posted: 3/9/2018 at 19:28:07
Continuing our NEW dimension of gardens, looking Up instead of Down, here’s a Tree (or two) to enjoy: We’re fortunate in having a very large garden, in fact, a landscape, to ... Read More

Looking Good 27 August 2018	posted: 27/8/2018 at 19:30:41
We have the Chilean Vine, Eccremocarpus scaber, climbing a trellis against a house wall. We’re lucky that it’s mild enough for it to grow all year, with flowers much ... Read More

Blog Archive

December2018

Current Month

blog code © Katy Whitton 2004