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The Cider House

These images were shot some years ago when the Cider House garden in the Tavy Valley, Devon was still in private ownership. It has since been bought back by the National Trust and absorbed back into the grounds of Buckland Abbey and the vast kitchen garden now supplies the restaurant. The previous owners were talented gardeners and had made a gorgeous, colourful garden with the backdrop of the Great Barn as a spectacular borrowed view. In summer the garden was full flowers, unusual clematis, lovely colour combinations and a mass of produce to pick in the vegetable garden, plus the bonus of lettuces going to seed, turning into leafy, fantastical towers.

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Clematis florida var sieboldiana. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Clematis 'Gravetye Beauty'. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Decorative wrought iron gates. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Clematis 'Royal Velours'. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Decorative wrought iron gate in form of tree with bird forms. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Yellow kniphofias and achillea amongst pale Nepeta govaniana, purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria and Clematis 'Prince Char...
Walled kitchen garden, once part of the abbey, with 13th century Great Barn of Buckland Abbey rising above. The Cider House, ...
Flowering lettuces in the walled kitchen garden. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Ornamental beds in the walled kitchen garden below the 13th century Great Barn include achilleas, dahlias, Knautia macedonica...
Neat rows of lettuce in the walled kitchen garden. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Walled kitchen garden, once part of the abbey, with 13th century Great Barn of Buckland Abbey rising above. The Cider House, ...
Walled kitchen garden, once part of the abbey, with 13th century Great Barn of Buckland Abbey rising above and wheelbarrows n...
Walled kitchen garden, once part of the abbey, with 13th century Great Barn of Buckland Abbey rising above. The Cider House, ...
Walled kitchen garden, once part of the abbey, with 13th century Great Barn of Buckland Abbey rising above. The Cider House, ...
Stone edged rills are a feature of the parterre garden beside the house. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
Parterre garden beside the house is split onto two levels with beds including a mix of yellow and blue perennials, shrubs and...
Sunken herb garden contains many medicinal and culinary plants including thymes, violas, lavender, fennel and glove artichoke...
Sunken herb garden includes monardas, Crambe cordifolia, purple sage, borage, thyme and many other medicinal and culinary pla...
Sunken herb garden includes clumps of thymes, purple sage, lavenders, fennel, sanguisorba and many other plants with medicina...
Beds containing a mix of herbaceous perennials, shrubs and bulbs near the house are edged with low hedges of Berberis thunber...
Beds containing a mix of herbaceous perennials, shrubs and bulbs near the house are edged with low hedges of Berberis thunber...
Beds containing a mix of herbaceous perennials, shrubs and bulbs near the house are edged with low hedges of Berberis thunber...
Seat below gap in wall is framed with a small apple tree supporting Clematis florida var sieboldiana with Clematis 'Gravetye ...
Hot borders line a path with yellow including Helenium 'Butterpat', Madia elegans, red and orange dahlias and daylilies, inte...
Hot borders include yellow Helenium 'Butterpat' and Madia elegans interspersed with blues of veronicas and eryngiums. The Cid...
Path framed with borders full of yellows and reds including Helenium 'Butterpat', delicate yellow daisy Madia elegans, dahlia...
Madia elegans. The Cider House, Buckland Abbey, Yelverton, Devon, UK
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