Shell House
The flint Shell House at Bicton Park contains an international collection of seashells from around the world. The area is accessed by a maze of footpaths weaving their way through the ferns. Exotic tree-ferns now grace an almost primeval rocky glade, created at the start of the Victorian 'fern fever' era.
Bicton Park Botanical Gardens is a tourist attraction on the southern part of the former Bicton estate. The landscaped park includes historic glasshouses, a countryside museum, the Bicton Woodland Railway train ride, nature trail, maze, mini golf, indoor and outdoor children's play complexes, restaurant and shop. The gardens, which originated in c.1730 are Grade I listed.
The four glasshouses at Bicton Gardens were designed to re-create the natural environment of plants from different continents. The Palm House was built in the 1820s to a curvilinear design, using 18,000 small glass panes in thin iron glazing bars. The Tropical House is the home of the Bicton orchid (Lemboglossum bictoniense), named after the Park where it first bloomed in 1836. The Arid House features cacti and other succulents growing in a naturalistic desert landscape.
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Shell House
The flint Shell House at Bicton Park contains an international collection of seashells from around the world. The area is accessed by a maze of footpaths weaving their way through the ferns. Exotic tree-ferns now grace an almost primeval rocky glade, created at the start of the Victorian 'fern fever' era.
Bicton Park Botanical Gardens is a tourist attraction on the southern part of the former Bicton estate. The landscaped park includes historic glasshouses, a countryside museum, the Bicton Woodland Railway train ride, nature trail, maze, mini golf, indoor and outdoor children's play complexes, restaurant and shop. The gardens, which originated in c.1730 are Grade I listed.
The four glasshouses at Bicton Gardens were designed to re-create the natural environment of plants from different continents. The Palm House was built in the 1820s to a curvilinear design, using 18,000 small glass panes in thin iron glazing bars. The Tropical House is the home of the Bicton orchid (Lemboglossum bictoniense), named after the Park where it first bloomed in 1836. The Arid House features cacti and other succulents growing in a naturalistic desert landscape.
www.bictongardens.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicton,_Devon