It nearly time! After 2 years of hard work the Garden Centre will be opening its doors on Saturday 1st December.
The Garden Centre will be fully stocked with all your garden needs, as well as Christmas trees, lights and decorations.
Grab this week’s copy of The Paper for Honiton or The Midweek Herald for a £5 off voucher towards your perfect Christmas tree!
We had such a wonderful time at Honiton Agricultural Show 2018 last Thursday, it was great to catch up with friends, customers and future customers! We hope everyone enjoyed the show and our stand! See you next year!
It was with great pleasure (and after a great deal of hard work!!) that Richard and Nelly Marker opened their garden at Beech Walk near Gittisham to visitors on 2ndJune. The weather was fantastic and showed the gardens off fabulously to the 100 or so garden enthusiasts that turned up to take in the splendour of the 5 acres of private grounds at Beech Walk House.
When it was decided to hold an open garden in aid of the Admiral Nurse Campaign, Head gardener David Greenway-Rowe was tasked with ensuring that everything was up to scratch. David and his team of helpers have worked very hard over the past months.
Incorporating a woodland garden, arboretum, formal lawns and tiered vineyard garden, Beech Walk has a lot to offer those interested in all things Horticultural.
Although mature, the gardens are continually evolving and in addition to the specimen plants and trees on show there are also areas of new planting and developing landscapes within the boundaries. The kitchen garden provides ample fruit and vegetables for the family throughout the year and is an important feature of the beautifully situated gardens at the Marker family home.
Guests were able to enjoy a cream tea on the top lawn and drink in the wonderful views that the gardens enjoy over Combe Park and to the East Devon countryside beyond. In all £700 was raised on the day for Admiral Nurse Campaign, a cause that the Markers and Combe Estate have been supporting in various ways over the last year or so.
We are excited to share with you that we will be opening the Estate gardens, on June the 2nd in aid of the Honiton Dementia Action Alliance Admiral Nurse Campaign. Fingers crossed the sun shines!
Combe Estate has made a donation to the Admiral Nurse campaign in the sum of £1,200. The money been kindly donated by the guns and other participants on the Combe Estate Shoot this season. Each season a trio of charities are chosen to be the beneficiaries of the fund raising efforts of the Combe Estate Shoot. The other two worthy causes in 2017/2018 were the Devon Air Ambulance Trust and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Combe Estate is passionate about supporting local and national charitable causes.
Later in the year the Marker family are going to open the gardens at Beech Walk House with proceeds once again going towards this very worthwhile cause.
After a very successful festive period selling Christmas trees from our new Garden Centre site we were pleased to be able to present the Admiral Nurse Campaign with a cheque for £400. Thank you to all our customers who bought a tree from us this year.
Read more about the Admiral Nurse Campaign and the Garden Centre plans in the Midweek Herald:
Festive tree shoppers offer boost to Honiton’s Admiral Nurse Campaign
Wishing all of our customers, tenants, friends and followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The Estate Office will be closed from 12md on 22nd December 2017 and will re-open on Tuesday 2nd January 2018.
We are excited to announce we are selling Christmas trees from the Garden Centre site..pop down from December first to find your perfect tree!
A section of a Bronze Age settlement thought to date back more than 3,000 years has been discovered at the Garden Centre site, read more about it here…
http://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/bronze-age-debris-discovered-in-gittisham-field-1-5290961
Combe Estate have donated a pole (tree trunk) to Ottery St Mary Carnival Committee for use at this years bonfire night celebrations.
We would like to wish everyone who is attending this spectacular event an enjoyable, safe and fun filled evening!