Bicton Park Botanical Gardens
South Coast
East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton

Over 64 acres to explore "A delight for gardeners" Spanning nearly 300 years of gardening history, the park is home to many rare and beautiful species, collected from around the world.

At Bicton you can enjoy over 60 acres of beautiful gardens with their soft sweeping lawns, elegant water features, fragrant English borders and formal gardens, plus a breadth of activities, interests and facilities for the enjoyment of all the family. These include indoor and outdoor childrens activity play areas, Bicton Woodland Railway, Nuthatch Nature Trail, historic glasshouses, Countryside Museum, Garden Centre, Restaurant and Gift Shop.

Steeped in history the magnificent Palm House is one of the world’s most beautiful garden buildings. Dating from c.1825 the Bicton building is about 20 years older than the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and has a fantastic collection of palms. Remarkably for such a bulbous building, the Palm House is glazed entirely with flat glass. The small size of the 18,000 overlapping panes enables them to fit smoothly between the curved, thin iron bars that form the roof’s skeleton. The structure is strengthened by slender cast-iron columns in the side wings, but the larger central dome is self-supporting.

You can also discover the temperate and tropical houses, the little house of shells, the romantic Hermitage, the secret garden, the lake, streams and woodlands.

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