The Lighter Side
A photographic journey through joy at Hestercombe
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This February enjoy a trail to explore art based on nature and the land and help us to create living art pieces around our beautiful gardens and gallery. A fun, and activity-packed family day out and exploration of Land Art, the subject of our Expanding Landscapes exhibition.
Weave sticks, leaves and other natural materials into a tapestry built by you and other trail-goers. Help us to create a colour swatch of materials, and stack leaves to create a beautiful piece of living art. Carefully add your own part to our home-made sculpture and enjoy walking through our meadow labyrinth, with a surprise when viewed from above.
We end up in Hestercombe House where you play your part in building our very own piece of land art for the gallery.
Please note that Hestercombe House will close at 4pm daily.
Prices & tickets
The I Heart Nature trail is completely free, included with standard gardens admission (Hestercombe members go free).
Admission tickets are available via the Hestercombe website.
Membership at Hestercombe
Join today and enjoy unlimited access to Hestercombe for a whole year
Described as “one of the top twenty gardens to visit in the country”, Hestercombe is always beautiful throughout the year. Join today and enjoy great value: unlimited access to Hestercombe with prices from £4.21 per month.
Your membership includes:
- Unlimited access to Hestercombe Gardens for a year from date of joining for the Member, guests and children according to membership type
- Unlimited 'bring a guest' privileges during March and September
- Half price entry for visitors accompanied by a Member of Hestercombe (one visitor per member)
- Free children's trails available throughout the year
- Special members’ discounts on many of our events throughout the year
- Our 'members first approach' with members receiving 24 hours priority booking for our most popular events, such as Mother's Day, The Bampfylde Lecture, workshops and most importantly, our winter events such as the Christmas Market, Father Christmas and ILLUMINATE
- Half price entry to our partner attractions: Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, Forde Abbey Gardens(half price garden entry only), The Bishop’s Palace, Wells(available for full membership only), The Garden House, Dartington Trust Gardens, Exmoor Zooand Glastonbury Abbey(half price garden entry only).
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Event Location
Hestercombe GardensCheddon Fitzpaine
Taunton
Somerset
TA2 8LG
