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Cambo Garden, the Victorian walled garden.

Cambo Victorian walled garden designed around burn, with willow, waterfall and rose-clad bridges. Naturalistic planting of rare interesting herbaceous perennials, bulbs, wonderful roses, ornamental vegetable garden, stunning autumn borders, winter garden, North American prairie and walks to the sea, carpeted in snowdrops and with pigs to feed -Feb/March!

Cambo is an iconic Victorian walled garden with a modern twist  -  inspirational planting schemes designed by Head Gardener, Elliott Forsyth, unusual plants (to see and buy), somewhere beautiful to while away an hour or two, an all seasons plantsman's paradise,  woodland walks by a sparkling burn leading to the sea.

Cambo Garden is known for its Snowdrops, not just to see also as a supplier, voted the best supplier of bulbs 'in the green'! A pleasant walk or to wonder at the specialist snowdrops and add to your own collection. Delight in acres of snowdrops in the spring, with a National Collection of around 300, fabulous hellebores, trilliums, spring bulbs and massed daffodils in the parkland,
culminating in The Tulip Festival.

Enjoy too the simple beauty of the Cambo woodland garden planted to complement the spring bulbs and full of treasures. Also have a peep into greenhouses full of seedlings for the ornamental vegetable garden and annual beds and huge cold frames storing cuttings for the garden and plant sales.

Summer at Cambo Gardens, you can walk along the lilac walk, marvel at incredible rambler roses cascading over massive trees, or more gently festooning wires, ropes and trellises - old-fashioned, historic roses galore create Cambo's Celebration of the Rose in late June/early July.

In Autumn, Cambo Gardens inspiration will seize you with the stunning autumn borders, colchicums galore underfoot and an ornamental potager just reaching a crescendo. Capture the moment as the grasses come to life, caught in the low sun.

Even a winter walk at Cambo has treasures in store for you as the first snowdrops will be there to greet you, delicate scents waft unexpectedly on the breeze.

The Woodland Walks are a must for every visitor to Cambo, stroll along the burn to the sea through the natural woodland of beech, oak, sycamore and ash, with snowdrops, bluebells or wild garlic at your feet. Perhaps you'll catch a glimpse of migratory birds, deer, even badgers or the occasional otter.

Cambo Snowdrops and Pigs - Holly and Ivy (Large Whites), Helen and Patch (Tamworths), Gertie and Dottie (Gloucester Old Spots) all work hard by rootling up the ivy that constantly threatens to smother the snowdrops and each year they produce piglets which arrive along with the snowdrops.

Fortunately the Cambo pigs don't eat the snowdrop bulbs, they just dig them up and spread them. You can also feed some very friendly pigs and enjoy some piglet pranks.

Cambo Gardens are open daily all year