The Horn of Plenty
Almost bang on the Devon-Cornwall border, high above the Tamar Valley, the Horn of Plenty looks like the house of your richest friend – and if you don’t have a pal like that, then you still get to stay in this rather splendid country manor house, enjoying its impeccable service and attention to detail (though you will have to pay!), and what’s more you can bring your faithful friend too.
Built in 1866, it was the former crib of a local mine-owner, later converted into a restaurant in the 1960s, when its then owner became the first British woman to be awarded a Michelin star. It’s now been a hotel for thirty years, and the individually designed guest rooms have more than kept pace with the times – they are spacious and well-equipped, with high-quality beds, sleek bathrooms with all the luxuries you would expect, and sweeping views (most of the rooms have balconies) – indeed the hotel was the Good Hotel Guide’s editor’s choice for UK ‘Rooms with a View’ recently and was one of The Times Top 40 places to stay in Britain last year. The rooms vary in size but all offer a Freeview TVs, coffee- and tea-making facilities, bottled water, fresh milk and a mini bar, luxury bathrobes, hair dryer, TV and wifi. The six rooms in the main house retain their high ceilings, large windows and original fireplaces; the ten rooms in the coach house conversions are pretty stunning spaces with a contemporary country feel.
All of the coach house rooms are dog-friendly, with a maximum of two dogs per room, and your dog is welcome in the library but not in the restaurant or drawing room. They offer a Bob & Lush doggie dinner the first night, and a bowl. There are also five acres of grounds for walkies, as well as loads of walks into the countryside beyond, either in the valley below or further afield to Dartmoor. There’s an outside hosepipe back at the hotel for muddy paws (and towels are available on request),
Other facilities include on-site spa treatments and massages in association with a local Tavistock gym and treatment centre, afternoon teas in the drawing room, the library or on the patio and lovely outdoor weddings in the gardens if the weather is kind (they also do more intimate, indoors affairs). The food too is bang up-to-date and is the other star attraction at the Horn of Plenty. Expect admirably executed and perfectly formed lunch and dinner menus that are full of delicious, original choices, from local wood pigeon and wild rabbit to Brixham mackerel and Dartmoor lamb – and at decent prices too for country-house living – the five-course tasting menu gets you the chef’s best seasonal effort, rounded off with tasty Devonshire cheeses.
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Digging Dog Nursery
A retail and mail-order plant nursery specializing in unusual and hard-to-find perennials, ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees, and vines.
Clematis
Simple and beautiful, Clematis includes over 300 named cultivars and even more wild species than the rose. Our selections offer stylish blossoms, attractive carefree foliage, and ornamental seed heads, in exchange for a minimum of attention. Use them to cover just about every stump and dead tree, as well as on trellises, arbors, pergolas, walls and tall shrubs. They prefer to be planted slightly deep in cool well-drained soil with mulch or a ground cover to shade their feet; provide a support and let them climb. Each vine is 18 inches to 2 feet tall. Medium Band.
Clematis ‘Horn Of Plenty’
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A captivating 1962 introduction, this free-flowering Dutch beauty begets enormous 7 to 9 in. wide, vivid rosy-purple blooms. Adorned with veined darker-hued central bars plus crinkled, slightly notched margins, the 6 to 8 overlapping blunt-tipped tepals gather around saucy red anthers. Granted a well-earned AGM, ‘Horn of Plenty’ grows as a tailored close-knit deciduous vine that’s ideal for scampering up an obelisk, trellis or post, while its long-lasting cup-shaped flowers and shapely seed heads lend glorious accents either outside or in a bouquet.
Blooms May�June & September
Size: 6- 1 / 2 ‘ – 10’ 0″ high x 0″ & spreading wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Clematis alpina ‘Constance’
- Clematis alpina ‘Jacqueline du Pré’
- Clematis ‘Arabella’
- Clematis armandii ‘Apple Blossom’
- Clematis armandii ‘Snowdrift’
- Clematis ‘Ascotiensis’
- Clematis ‘Blue Angel’
- Clematis chiisanensis ‘Lemon Bells’
- Clematis chrysocoma var. sericea
- Clematis ‘Danielle’
- Clematis ‘Doctor Ruppel’
- Clematis durandii
- Clematis ‘Elsa Späth’
- Clematis ‘Fragrant Star (Vancouver™)’
- Clematis ‘Fujimusume’
- Clematis ‘General Sikorski’
- Clematis ‘Gillian Blades’
- Clematis ‘Gipsy Queen’
- Clematis ‘Gravetye Beauty’
- Clematis ‘Guernsey Cream’
- Clematis ‘H. F. Young’
- Clematis ‘Haku Ookan’
- Clematis ‘Henryi’
- Clematis heracleifolia var. davidiana
- Clematis ‘Huldine’
- Clematis integrifolia ‘Blue Boy’
- Clematis ‘Jan Fopma’
- Clematis ‘Kilian Donahue’
- Clematis koreana ‘Brunette’
- Clematis ‘Lord Neville’
- Clematis macropetala ‘Blue Bird’
- Clematis macropetala ‘Blue Lagoon’
- Clematis macropetala ‘Jan Lindmark’
- Clematis montana var. grandiflora
- Clematis montana ‘Broughton Star’
- Clematis montana ‘Elizabeth’
- Clematis montana ‘Pink Perfection’
- Clematis ‘Morning Mist’
- Clematis ‘Mrs. Robert Brydon’
- Clematis ‘Niobe’
- Clematis ‘Pagoda’
- Clematis ‘Pamiat Serdtsa’
- Clematis ‘Perle d�Azur’
- Clematis ‘Pink Champagne’
- Clematis ‘Praecox’
- Clematis ‘Romantika’
- Clematis ‘Rooguchi’
- Clematis tangutica ‘Golden Harvest’
- Clematis terniflora
- Clematis ‘The President’
- Clematis x triternata ‘Rubromarginata’
- Clematis ‘Victoria’
- Clematis viticella ‘Alba Luxurians’
- Clematis viticella ‘Emilia Plater’
- Clematis viticella ‘Kermesina’
- Clematis viticella ‘Polish Spirit’
- Clematis viticella ‘Royal Velours’
- Clematis viticella ‘Venosa Violacea’
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Our feature plant: Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii
including draped bells, candelabras, drumsticks and pincushions. Many Primrose flowers waft a delectable scent. Second-to-none for the dappled recesses of your garden, these easily grown, cold-hardy Primulas crave well-drained, humus-rich niches with adequate moisture and good air circulation. They can grace containers or be planted in swaths along shady walkways or in woodland gardens. Be sure to peruse our online Primulas.
One of the earliest perennials to bloom, you can be picking their enchanting urn-shaped flowers in February while the rest of the garden still slumbers. Many cultivars showcase an array of mercury-hued dapples, speckles and spots, while others sport solid pewter sheens or striking silver streaks. Easy-to-grow Pulmonarias prefer the lacy light of a woodland setting plus cool moist soil. Our newsletter also includes a handful of other shade-loving perennials that promise alluring foliage. Many of these perennials can be partnered with Pulmonarias for intriguing foliar contrast. You may wish to check out our online Pulmonaria offerings.
All of us plant and paper wranglers wish you good health and happy digging!
