RHS Rosemoor 20% discount off garden admissions booked by 30th April online

goldfinches

This offer was included in the details about a competition offering prizes of family admissions to RHS Rosemoor which is between Exmoor and Dartmoor, MSE'ers might be heading that way on hols soon.
Here's a link to the comp in case you want to see if you can win a ticket https://www.checklists.co.uk/win/rhs/
Plus, Rosemoor are offering every reader a 20% discount off garden admission prices. Simply quote TRAVEL20 in the promo code at checkout and book by 30 April online. Visit rhs.org.uk/rosemoor
PS for the knowledgeable lowdown on Rosemoor @Davesnave visits often and might answer any polite questions.

Davesnave

goldfinches said:

This offer was included in the details about a competition offering prizes of family admissions to RHS Rosemoor which is between Exmoor and Dartmoor, MSE'ers might be heading that way on hols soon.
Here's a link to the comp in case you want to see if you can win a ticket https://www.checklists.co.uk/win/rhs/
Plus, Rosemoor are offering every reader a 20% discount off garden admission prices. Simply quote TRAVEL20 in the promo code at checkout and book by 30 April online. Visit rhs.org.uk/rosemoor
PS for the knowledgeable lowdown on Rosemoor @Davesnave visits often and might answer any polite questions.

Yes, I pop in now and again. There's plenty of variety. Just don't stay still too long or you may end up in one of my photos!

twopenny

Beautiful. What a lovely photo Davesnave.

Thanks Goldfinches. I've only been once in mid summer and found it dull and over formal. Decades ago. Looking at Davesnaves photos it looks more my style now.

I'll check on school hols, appts that are playing catch up and the weather and hope there are still some places left

It seems scarey to go for such a long drive when I've been at home for the last 18mts but could really do with a treat.

Davesnave

twopenny, the middle garden 'rooms' are formal or stage managed, but other parts of the gardens are more informal, especially the woodland edges. This is the Lower Woodland, not originally open to the public:

You can download a garden map here:

https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/pdf/rosemoor/rosemoor-garden-map-leaflet.pdf

twopenny

I walk woods like that around here. Lush flowering gardens are my pleasure but so many are tidied to within an inch of their life.
Hestercombe used to be a delight with a wonderful head gardener. Now it's been neatened up and your walk is always accompanied by loud huge mowers.
Must try marwood gardens again sometime soon.

Davesnave

twopenny said:

Hestercombe used to be a delight with a wonderful head gardener. Now it's been neatened up and your walk is always accompanied by loud huge mowers.
Must try marwood gardens again sometime soon.

I went to uni with the former Head Gardener.....for a time. He wasn't very happy with the course and literally disappeared suddenly during Year 1. No one knew where he'd gone, so my friend and I surmised that perhaps someone had locked him in a broom cupboard for a joke during one of our drunken escapades in the bowels of the old mansion.

It wasn't until Dearly Beloved went to a talk about Hestercombe  a few years ago that I read the handout and learned  where Mr Enigmatic had gone.....and felt slightly very jealous!

Haven't been to Marwood for a few years. It was our kids' favourite due to the friendliness of Dr Smart's dog and the ability to hand feed the huge carp. In those days it was 50p in the honesty box and the prices in the nursery were very reasonable. Don't expect anything less than a full tourist workover now, but the landscape is still lovely and more mature.