Last updated on 14 June 11

Lea Gardens

3.0/5 (2 ratings)

© Garry Platt
Photograph © Lea Gardens

Gardenvisit Editorial

A woodland garden specialising in rhododendrons, azaleas and kalmias. The garden is on the site of a medieval millstone quarry.

Address - Lea, Matlock, Derbyshire, England, DE4 5GH
Opening times - Late March to end June. Daily. Open 10am to 5:30pm.
Admission - Adult £3.50
Website - Visit the Lea Gardens website

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Nearby Garden Nurseries

Garden Nurseries within 30km as the crow flies from this garden.

Lea Rhododendron Gardens Ltd (0km away)
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Reviews and Comments

Have you visited this garden?

12 months ago Anonymous said
Went to visit the tea rooms in June 2011 and decided to pay £8 for my wife and I to walk round the gardens. After 10 minutes of walking through a scrubby woodland with dying bushes we began to wonder where the gardens were. Eventually we came to a small area with a few flowers, not very impressive.

I dont think it's wrong to say that paying that amount to see a garden, you should expect something pretty spectacular, this certainly wasn't.

Needless to say I did not go into the tearoom to give them more of my cash, nice though it looked.

(1.0/5)
over 1 year ago Landlord said
Beautiful , established ericaceous garden. Good mature Rhodos and Azaleas. Small alpine garden. Plant sales and good tea shop.

(5.0/5)

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