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This page provides information about some of the gardens you can visit in Cornwall, it also contains links to garden websites. Bosvigo - 3 acres of gardens and has sales of often rare and hard to find herbaceous plants.
Marsh Villa Gardens - part of the NGS Gardens Open For Charity. This three-acre garden features a large pond, streams, bog garden. Extensive herbaceous beds, mixed borders, woodland and marshland walks in a former estuary, Home-made teas.
Pine Lodge Gardens & Nursery - 30-acre estate comprises gardens within a garden. Some 6,000 plants, all labelled, have been thoughtfully laid out using original designs and colour combinations to provide maximum interest. Rhododendrons, magnolias, camellias, herbaceous borders with many rare and tender plants, marsh gardens, tranquil fish ponds, lake with black swans within the park, pinetum. Japanese garden and arboretum. Holder of National Collection of Grevilleas. 'Western Morning News' 2004. Light refreshments and Teas
Creed House - 5-acre landscaped Georgian rectory garden; tranquil rural setting; spacious lawns. Tree collection; rhododendrons; sunken cobbled yard and formal walled herbaceous garden. Trickle stream to ponds and bog. Natural woodland walk. Restoration began 1974 -continues and includes recent planting.
GlenDurgan - This National Trust garden has a walled garden; laurel maze; giant's stride, valley with specimen trees, bluebells and primulas running down to Durgan fishing village on R Helford. Featured on BBC Gardeners World, June 2004. Light Refreshments and Teas.
Headland - 1¼ acre cliff garden with magnificent sea, coastal and estuary views on 3 sides. Planted to withstand salty gales yet include subtropical plants with intimate places to sit and savour the views. Paths wind through the garden past rocky outcrops down to a secluded swimming cove. Featured in 'The Garden' RHS 2003. Cream Teas
Lost Gardens of Heligan - The award winning Lost Gardens of Heligan extend to some eighty acres of superb pleasure grounds together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens and a huge, productive vegetable garden, all fast returning to their former glory. Lying at the heart of one of the most mysterious estates in England, Heligan, the former seat of the Tremayne family, is now the site of the largest garden restoration in Europe.
Trelissisk - The Trelissick estate stands at the head of the estuary of the River Fal. Here a great stretch of deep water runs far inland with smaller creeks and inlets branching off on either side. Wooded slopes lead down to the water with oaks and beeches overhanging the mudflats of the tidal creeks.
Trebah - Trebah is a spectacular 25 acre ravine garden that falls 200 feet to a private beach on the River Helford. The sub-tropical garden is now 150 years old and leads from an 18th century house down a steep, wooded valley to a sheltered cove.
The Japanese Garden and Bonsai Nursery - The nursery holds some twenty thousand trees plus; including a wide selection of indoor and outdoor varieties, a substantial number of trees [various sizes/ages] ready for styling, and a good selection of Specimens, some of which are placed amongst the general stock whilst others are housed apart in a special display.
Links to more gardens and gardening websites Gardens in Cornwall - http://www.gardensincornwall.co.uk/index.php Great British Gardens - http://www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk/gardens%20in%20cornwall.htm Caerhays Castle - http://www.caerhays.co.uk/ Great Gardens of Cornwall - http://www.greatgardensofcornwall.co.uk/ Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park - http://www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk/ St Michael's Mount - http://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/ Pencarrow House and Gardens - http://www.pencarrow.co.uk/homepage.asp |
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