Boxwood brochure 2022

in association with Boxwood Tours
Devon on the Wildside
Contemporary Private Gardens Making New Waves
Tucked down in the southwest corner of England, Devon is a county tailor-made for the garden-visiting connoisseur:
a dramatically contrasting landscape of moorland, wooded coombes, seascapes and rich, red earth. Here, we have
chosen a selection of contrasting gardens that in their own way are all pushing boundaries and breaking the mould. We
have found some exceptional gardens, including Wildside, described as ‘the most innovative, daring and vibrant new
garden in Britain’; Plaz Metaxu, an ambitious, contemporary, and challenging, intellectual garden; and Mothecombe
where we visit a garden planted to attract bees as well as butterflies, slow worms, frogs, and dragonflies. To cap it all,
we stay at the enchanting Hotel Endsleigh overlooking the fast-flowing River Tamar with stunning gardens thought to
be one of the last commissions of renowned, early 19th-Century landscape gardener Humphry Repton. Originally a
hunting lodge belonging to the Dukes of Bedford, the house has been beautifully renovated and adapted by hotelier
Olga Polizzi of the famous Forte family; all in all, the perfect base for a tour of the gardens of this beautiful region.
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