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Coleton Fishacre Garden
Brownstone Road
Kingswear
Dartmouth

TQ6 0EQ

tel: 01803-752466
fax: 01803 753 017

Area: Devon
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Coleton Fishacre Garden -- Devon
Visitor Information www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-coletonfishacrehouseandgarden -- email: coletonfishacre {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

Coleton Fishacre Garden
Devon
All details updated* as of: 18/01/2011
Text-Only version here

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

5th Mar - 30th Oct, 10:30am - 5pm, Sat - Wed
5th Nov - 18th Dec, 11am - 4pm, Sat & Sun
Open Good Friday. Last admission 30 minutes before closing.

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes

View this house at StatelyHomes.com

National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Best Times of Year to Visit:
Spring - May/June
August/Sept
To see:
Woodland garden with bulbs and wild flora
Walled garden and terrace borders
 Admission Prices
Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets)
Car: adult £8.80 (£8), child £4.40 (£4), family £21.80 (£19.80), family (1 adult and 2 children) £14.30 (£13).
Green travel: adult £7.50 (£6.80), child £3.80 (£3.40), family £19.60 (£17.80), family (1 adult and 2 children) £12.90 (£11.70)
 Onsite Facilities
Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Light Refreshment: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs Allowed: Yes
On Lead only: Yes
Special Events: Yes
Other Facilities:
New 'behind the scenes' areas. Guided garden walks every afternoon. Quizzes and trails for both house and garden. Jazz events and open-air theatre. Dogs: dogs under control 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.
 Garden Features
A luxuriant garden by the sea, with an Arts & Crafts-style house, featuring Art Deco-influenced interiors; Rare and exotic plant collection set in a secluded coastal valley; Award-winning tea-room, Year-round interest English Heritage Garden Grade: II
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: Oswald Milne
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 of Garden
Rupert and Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte commissioned Oswald Milne, a pupil of Edward Lutyens, to design a 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.
 Nearby Devon Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
Broome Court, Dartmouth
Restaurants:
Wide selection in Dartmouth
Inns & Pubs:
Green Dragon, Stoke Fleming
Manor Inn, Galmpton
Ship Inn, Kingswear
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Dartmouth and Dart Estuary
Totnes
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