The Rose Garden

The Rose Garden is on the corner of the junction of Babbacombe Road and Babbacombe Downs Road.  Many pass by this little garden without realising it is a public area not a private garden.

The Rose Garden was once part of Doctor Herbert Chilcote's residence "Charlwood"; he lived there from 1869 until his death in 1886.  We have placed a brief history on a notice board near the steps.  The house is now the Woodland Park Nursing Home.

The garden consists of two sections;

One shaded by tall pine and beech trees where one can sit on a sunny day in the cool.  Ferns, foxgloves, English bluebells and hellebores have been planted along with a mixture of other Spring bulbs in the shaded borders.  The less shady borders a mixture of shrubs and sustainable flowering plants including: roses, rosemary, fuchsias, salvias and euphorbia.  To name just a few.

The ornamental garden is sunnier with shrubby borders alongside rose, flower and grass beds, the lawn is surrounded by roses.