SPRING 2024:
SUNS, WEDS & BANK HOLIDAYS ( MON 6TH & 27TH MAY) 11AM - 5PM
10 MARCH - 9 JUNE
(AUTUMN 2024: SUNS & WEDS 9 OCT- 13 NOV)
After a wet, cold start this is turning out to be an amazing Spring, with incredible flowering of many trees and shrubs, including our 3 magnificent handkerchief trees. These are the best we have ever seen them, so well worth coming to see. Other delights at this time are the gorgeous scented deciduous azaleas and our wonderful wisterias, as well as a huge variety of rhododendrons, again flowering very prolifically this year.
As usual we will be serving home-made vegetable soup and a selection of home-baking in the tea room. ( Soup between 12 and 2pm)
Entry for children is free and there is lots to keep them amused, including the ‘Sound and Story Garden’ and a Plant Hunters’ Trail, with a prize.
Look at our News page for information about Sue Ifould’s art exhibition and sketching workshops at Lukesland.
The flute and piano recital on 14th May is now sold out, but if you are interested in hearing about similar musical or other events in future please subscribe to our mailing list in the box below.
And keep checking the TotheWoods Forest School page for new and exciting events for all ages: https://www.facebook.com/tothewoodsforestschool/
We look forward to welcoming you soon!
Our youngest handkerchief tree with azaleas
Our grand old 1930’s handkerchief tree. See the video below in The Latest at Lukesland
Left: Wisterias in the evening light
Above: Japanese primulas, bluebells and azaleas by the stream
Adults £8
Visitors arriving on foot, bicycle or horseback: £7.50
Children under 16 and wheelchair-users go free.
Parking is also free, with disabled parking available.
Annual tickets will be available from the first opening of 2024 for £35, allowing unlimited entry on normal opening days in 2024.
Groups of 25+ can come on non-open days by special appointment at the reduced rate of £7.50 per person.
2023/24 Gardeners World 2 for 1 entry is only valid on Wednesdays.
Card or cash payment taken at the gate
Entry to the tea room only is not possible
Dogs welcome on a lead
Lukesland is a 24-acre family-run garden in Dartmoor National Park, on the edge of Ivybridge, in the South Hams, Devon. Set in the picturesque valley of the Addicombe Brook, Lukesland is well-loved for its wonderful range of spring and autumn flowering shrubs and specimen trees, some dating from Victorian times.
Our gardens are located near Ivybridge on the edge Dartmoor. Use the link below to get direction on Google maps or for written driving directions. Some Satnavs (eg Apple maps) may take you to the wrong place, so do check the route first.
Dan Cordell’s fabulous buzzard sculpture at the top of the garden.
