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Garden Name: Coleton Fishacre Garden
Last Modified: 27/01/2010
Garden ID: 0223

pic: 0223_coleton.jpg

Owner: National Trust
Address:
Brownstone Road
Kingswear
Dartmouth
Postcode: TQ6 0EQ
County: Devon

tel: 01803-752466
fax: 01803 753 017
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
email: coletonfishacre {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

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 Grade:
II

Opening Times:
15 Mar - 20 Jul 08, 10:30 - 5, Wed - Sun
21 Jul - 31 Aug 08, 10:30 - 5, Wed - Mon
3 Sep - 2 Nov 08, 10:30 - 5, Wed - Sun
Open BH Mons. Last admission 30mins before closing

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

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
£6.60, child £3.30, family £16.50, family (1 adult) £9.90. Groups £5.60. Garden only: £6.10, child £3.10. Groups £5. Visitors arriving by 'green ways' £5.60 (house & garden), £5 (garden only)

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
Dogs only on surrounding NT land


Designer: Oswald Milne
Description of Garden:
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: 
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.

Local Inns: 
Green Dragon, Stoke Fleming
Manor Inn, Galmpton
Ship Inn, Kingswear

Accomodation: 
Broome Court, Dartmouth

Restaurants: 
Wide selection in Dartmouth

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Dartmouth and Dart Estuary
Totnes