Newton Abbot Travel Club
THE GARDENS @
THE NEWT SOMERSET
Thursday 23rd May 2024
A chance to visit these gardens not open to the general public without membership of The Newt, their partner gardens or RHS members on a Tuesday.
After a 6 year project, the hotel & gardens opened in 2019 after a multi million pound spend.
The gardens at The Newt have been shaped over the last 200 years by successive enthusiasts, including Margaret Hobhouse who elevated them to a Victorian ideal, introducing colour, a greenhouse and many trees of beech, oak, pine, walnut and cedar. Renowned garden designer Penelope Hobhouse gave Margaret’s vision a new lease of life in the 1970s, followed by Nori and Sandra Pope, whose experiments with colour delighted and inspired thousands of visitors in the mid-1980s. The latest incarnation has been created by Italo-French architect Patrice Taravella, who believes a garden should be both beautiful and useful. Mixing ornamental and productive elements, the gardens are a feast for the eyes and stomach. At their core sits the Parabola, a walled garden concealing an apple tree maze; at their edges, diverse woodland providing a sheltered habitat for native wildlife. The Newt also has cyder orchards and produces their own cyders. Tours available to be booked £10
Please note
There is quite a bit of walking from the car park and around the gardens and as such perhaps not suited to people with disabilities & wheelchairs as walkways are cobbled, uneven and grassed.
It is a cashless establishment
No picnics allowed - they have their own cafe & restaurant, please look at their web site.
Cost £45.00 includes coach & entry
£20 non-refundable deposit per person with booking inc. RHS members
Balance due by 1st April
Coach departure 09.30 (tbc) Forde Park, followed by Railway Station (park side) B&Q Kingsteignton Road, Next Greenhill Way, Warecross & Exeter Services.
1 PLACE AVAILABLE
RHS members taking their membership card & id on day will get refund of £20 on return
As a visitor, you will experience the newest areas first, beginning with the multi-faceted Formal Garden and then the Stream Field and Lake to the north. These in turn lead toward the South West and Devon Orchards and the very popular Fruit and Vegetable Garden. Walking through the Underpass you discover the contrasting original garden of Lady Anne Berry, which consists of many garden ‘rooms’ that blend seamlessly into one.
As a visitor, you will experience the newest areas first, beginning with the multi-faceted Formal Garden and then the Stream Field and Lake to the north. These in turn lead toward the South West and Devon Orchards and the very popular Fruit and Vegetable Garden. Walking through the Underpass you discover the contrasting original garden of Lady Anne Berry, which consists of many garden ‘rooms’ that blend seamlessly into one.
As a visitor, you will experience the newest areas first, beginning with the multi-faceted Formal Garden and then the Stream Field and Lake to the north. These in turn lead toward the South West and Devon Orchards and the very popular Fruit and Vegetable Garden. Walking through the Underpass you discover the contrasting original garden of Lady Anne Berry, which consists of many garden ‘rooms’ that blend seamlessly into one.
