Endsleigh GardensNursery

Endsleigh Gardens Nursery grows plants on a five-acre site at Milton Abbot, between Tavistock and Launceston, within what was once the walled kitchen garden of Endsleigh, the Duke of Bedford's estate house in the Tamar Valley. The nursery dates from 1957 and specialises in choice and unusual trees and shrubs, including Acer, Cornus, old apple and cherry varieties, climbers, conifers, heathers and alpines, grown on site rather than bought in for resale, which shapes a stock list that shifts with the seasons rather than following garden-centre trends. Customers include local landscapers and smallholders as well as gardeners buying single specimens. The walled setting, with its brick-lined beds and sheltered microclimate, is part of the visit rather than incidental to it. The nursery keeps a shorter week than a typical garden centre, opening Thursday to Sunday, and has traded from the same Milton Abbot site throughout its history.