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From Monday 3rd February, the Stables Restaurant and Gift Shop will be open only on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Gardens and House will remain open daily as usual.
Feast your eyes on the riot of colour that is the Great Plat in Hestercombe's formal garden
From Monday 3rd February, the Stables Restaurant and Gift Shop will be open only on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Gardens and House will remain open daily as usual.
It’s mid-August which means the Formal Garden is blooming and it's star turn, the Great Plat, has bundles of colour. Looking at the Plat from the Victorian Terrace, the scene is punctuated by cartoon-bright blooms: electric-blue delphiniums, coral and red gladioli and sunset orange cannas. Read on to see our pick of the current crop of blooms:
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