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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

Email: potting_shed at bocombe.co.uk

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Hedging in a swampposted: 26/4/2008 at 10:00:41
A few weeks ago we wandered over to the other side of this vast county of Devon to buy swamp cypress (Taxodium disticum) at a hedging and tree wholesaler. Seems ...
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Just one moreposted: 22/4/2008 at 08:37:51
We're opening our garden for the National Gardens Scheme one day more than last year, but in a different pattern of days. And our first opening is this coming week!

We're ...
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An Open Garden, but a missed opportunity!posted: 14/4/2008 at 21:46:46
Recently we attended the National Gardens Scheme’s annual Devon County Meeting, where owners of gardens that open for that charity are briefed for the coming season, and enjoy a few ...
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What’s in an NCCPG posted: 6/4/2008 at 18:21:34
We did have one of our rare days out recently at the North Devon group of the NCCPG. We went along as guests of a friend who's also a National ...
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More Cornish purchases echoing Bocombeposted: 24/3/2008 at 14:56:29
On our recent visit to the south of Cornwall we purchased a number of new plants, including four new Tree Ferns we mentioned in the our last week’s notes. Also ...
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Tree ferns are not just for Christmasposted: 16/3/2008 at 15:14:39
Apart for some rather special gardens in very mild areas of the UK that have enjoyed growing Tree Ferns for decades, in recent years the fashion for Tree Ferns has ...
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Tree Planting over the winter 2007 / 2008posted: 19/2/2008 at 20:02:42
We've continued our tree planting this winter, adding many specimen trees to our growing collection. For example, after clearing a couple of coppiced Hazel we planted a Persian Ironwood tree ...
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