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Bicton Park Botanical Gardens

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens
East Budleigh
Budleigh Salterton

EX9 7BJ

tel: 01395-568465
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Area: Devon
Show Map Location:
Overview Map (30 Km)
Detailed Map (1.5 Km)

Visitor Information

www.bictongardens.co.uk

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Bicton Park Botanical Gardens
Devon
All details updated* as of: 25/02/2008

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids

Opening Days and Hours

All year, except Christmas Day & Boxing Day; daily; 10am - 6pm in summer & 10am - 5pm in winter.

Parties / Coaches: Yes

Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes

National Garden Scheme days: No

Best Times of Year to Visit:

To see:

Admission Prices

Adult £6.95; Child £5.95; Concessions £5.95; Family (2A + 2C) £19.95; Dogs £1. Child under 3 years free.
Extras: Train ride £1.30; Mini-golf £0.50
Annual Prices for adults, couples, concessions, families - enquire on own website

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:
A narrow-guage railway offers scenic rides and there are indoor and outdoor play areas for children. Also a large museum, restaurant, shop, garden centre and nature trail.

Garden Features

Italian Garden, Palm House and parkland with lakes, fountains and over 1,000 trees.
Newly restored 19th century hermitage.

English Heritage Garden Grade: I

National Collection:

Description of Garden

Designer: Lady Louisa Rolle

The magnificent 63-acre (25 ha) historic park is superbly landscaped with lakes and fountains. It also contains more than 1,000 trees including 300 species and 25 champion specimens together with many flowering plants including camellias, magnolias, rhododendrons, mimosas, a tulip tree and probably the oldest wisteria in Britain.

Bicton Park is renowned for its 18th century formal Italian Garden with walled borders and formal beds and the 19th century Palm House, which ranks among the world's most elegant glass buildings. The Palm House features rare and exotic plants including orchids, cacti, begonias, pelargoniums and brilliantly coloured shrubs. There is also a Victorian fernery, old and modern roses, dwarf conifers, waterside and Mediterranean-type plants.

History of Garden

The Italian Garden was laid out in c.1735, reputedly to a design by Andre le Notre. The Palm House, one of the oldest and most beautiful curvilinear iron glasshouses, dates from c.1825-30. It was the first of many developments inspired by Lady Louisa Rolle, who also established the arboretum, pinetum, hermitage, American garden, shell house and fernery. She also built St. Mary's Church where Queen Victoria, George VI and the late Queen Mother worshipped during visits to Bicton.

Nearby Devon Hotels, Facilities & Amenities

Hotels & Accommodation:
Kings Arms, Otterton

Restaurants:
Gardeners

Inns & Pubs:
Kings Arms, Otterton

Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
East Devon Jurassic Coast

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*Information Updates
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(Most recently requested in Jan - Feb 2008)

The garden information above was last updated on 25/02/2008

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