mediumaevum: Buckland Abbey, Devon Originally dating from the...

mediumaevum:

Buckland Abbey, Devon

Originally dating from the 13th century, this Cistercian Abbey was transformed three hundred years later into a private home famously lived in by Sir Francis Drake. 

The gardens were redesigned in the 1990s with features that may be found in a medieval garden such as a flowery mead, or meadow, and formal beds fenced in by trellis with a fountain pool at its centre. There’s also a box-edged garden of medicinal herbs.