Heddon Hall Gardens

Located on the western edge of Exmoor National Park, Heddon Hall Gardens are now open on a regular basis and will appeal to every type of North Devon visitor. Come and have a delicious home made cream tea after enjoying the intimate surroundings of one of North Devon's finest gardens, in the picturesque Heddon Valley.

Whenever it has been opened in the past under the National Garden Scheme, Heddon Hall Garden has attracted widespread admiration. Jane Keatley began her work here in 1987, with creative input from luminaries such as Carol Klein and Roy Lancaster. She has made it very much a gardener's garden, with rare species, ferns, shrubs and trees all thriving in their natural valley setting, many of which are the results of plant hunting and dendrological trips abroad.

The walled garden, laid out by Penelope Hobhouse, has clipped box hedges and cordoned fruit trees as well as flowers, herbs and vegetables. The mainly herbaceous rose garden leads onto a glorious informal rockery and bog garden, where the River Heddon tumbles into the three recently renovated stew ponds. Behind this detail is a backdrop of mature oaks, beeches and acers, as well as a wide range of magnolias, rhododendrons and camellias.