Hops . In addition to its Lavender garden, Buckfast Abbey has a physic garden which includes various medicinal plants, food and herbs.

  At Fairmile near Ottery St Mary there is this clock.  It was erected in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamnd Jubillee. 

Just a few of the delightful butterflies and plants to be found in the Buckfastleigh Butterfly House. Clipper butterflty. An unknown ...

Buckfast Abbey has a lavender garden with an amazing number of species and varieties of Lavender.

On Thursday we went to Buckfastleigh - terminus of the South Devon Railway . We didn't go specifically to see a train but one was ...

Ian took Helen and I to Otter Nurseries on Tuesday. Then we went next door to Joshua's harvest store. These splendid apple trees ar...

Helen and Ian's new kitchen and dining room is fantastic. Every bit as good as Helen's blog postings suggested and there seems so...

On Tuesday afternoon we drove out to Escot Park near Ottery St Mary where we have booked a slot on a Beaver watch later in the week. (...