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Dewstow Gardens and Grottoes

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  • Dewstow Gardens and Grottoes Terry Winter © Terry Winter
  • Dewstow gardens grottoes Photograph © Dewstow Gardens
  • Dewstowgardens grottoes Photograph © Dewstow Gardens

Gardenvisit Editorial

Dewstow House was built before l804, when John Proctor (d. l837) lived there. Dewstow Gardens were built after 1895 and buried after World War II. Rediscovery and large scale restoration of the gardens began in 2000. There is a labyrinth of tunnels interconnecting underground grottoes, ponds, tropical glass houses, rock garden and an alpine garden.

Head Gardener's Comment

Imagine discovering a lost garden with tunnels and underground grottoes buried under thousands of tonnes of soil for over 50 years. That’s what happened at Dewstow gardens. Built around 1895 the gardens were buried just after World War Two and rediscovered in 2000. The gardens contain many ponds and rills but interestingly a labyrinth of underground grottoes, tunnels and sunken ferneries. The rock gardens are made up of a mixture of real stone and faced stone using various types of Pulhamite.

History

http://www.dewstowgardens.co.uk/#/history/4561559033

Address - Dewstow Gardens, Caerwent, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales, NP26 5AH
Opening times - Open daily from March to mid October. Open 10am to 4.30pm (last entry). Please check website for actual closing date and for NGS charity days.
Admission - Adults £6.50 Conc £5.50 Children 11-18 years £4.00. Children 10 and under FREE (For Safety reasons, a maximum of 3 under 10s per responsible adult)
Website - Visit the Dewstow Gardens and Grottoes website

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  • almost 2 years ago Anonymous said

    I visited the amazing Dewstow Gardens with a Flower arrangers day out from Caerphilly, as a invited guest of one of it's members.

    From the start to the end of a wonderful day in which I was overawed with a sense of serinity,admiration and totally lost in a world of rare beauty.

    I will tell as many people as I can to visit and share in the experiance, it is the best pick up if anyone has had the blues, you will quickly leave your cares behind.

    I recomend the food at the golf club and the service which was second to none.

    Thanks to everyone who has made this possible.

    Eve Lloyd-Daughton date 23 july 2010

    (1.0/5)
  • almost 2 years ago Marion Monahan said

    I visited the gardens on a misty, drizzly Sunday, July18th, with the Friends of Bristol University Botanic Garden and was bursting with bliss the whole morning. We had lots of Pulhamite stone at our former site at Brackenhill and to see the original restored work of the firm was splendid - nature copied and made more accessible to man by men. Being an alpine enthusiast, I drooled over some of the planting but all the gardens, informal or formal were so full of colour it seemed like the sun was shining in the rain, which was easy to avoid by going underground. What an adventurous garden to have created so quickly!

    (5.0/5)

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