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Gardens in Cornwall |
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Cornwall is well endowed with beautiful gardens. Here is a small selection of the best |
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A spectacular 26 acre Cornish ravine garden, rated among the 80 finest gardens in the world. This sub-tropical paradise is home to a unique collection of rare and exotic plants, trees and shrubs winding down to a private and secluded beach on the Helford River. Trebah is a garden for all seasons, with year round colour and scent. |
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Glendurgan, Mawnan Smith near Falmouth Superb subtropical garden with year-round interest. This valley garden of was created in the 1820s and developed over many years by the Fox family. Running down to the tiny village of Durgan and its beach, the garden has many fine trees and rare and exotic plants, with outstanding spring displays of magnolias and camellias. In their season glorious displays of wild flowers carpet the valley slopes. The laurel maze dates from 1833. |
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The 50 acres of gardens include the Italian Gardens, lovely lawns with magnificent specimen trees, woodland walks and lots of flowering plants and shrubs. In Spring the Gardens and mile-long carriage drive are ablaze with camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas, as well as primroses and daffodils, closely followed by a haze of bluebells in May. Later on the blue hydrangeas are a magnificent sight all around the gardens and lake. Apparently the monkey puzzle tree got its name here. |
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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. As seen on the telly. |
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The Eden Project is based in a large crater in which nestle two vast greenhouse (Biomes). These house plants, crops and landscapes from the humid tropics and warm temperate regions. Eden uses exhibitions, art, storytelling, workshops, lectures and events to put messages across to both the public and formal education groups. The underlying concept presents the need for environmental care through a celebration of what nature gives to us. |
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Trengwainton Gardens, near Penzance Sheltered garden with an abundance of exotic trees and shrubs. Splendid views of Mount Bay and the Lizard. Enormous tree ferns creating a 'Jurassic' feel. Dogs welcome throughout the garden |
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Caerhays Gardens, Gorran near St. Austell It was the third generation of the Williams family living at Caerhays, who decided it was about time something was done with the garden. It was to be the germination of a gardener in a man who would have the most profound influence on British horticulture. Julian Charles Williams gave up parliamentary life, turned his back on London society and in 1896 started a garden diary, determined to record every planting, horticultural and meteorological event that took place during the development of his garden. |
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70 acres of enchanting gardens and grounds featuring one of Cornwall's largest and most diverse plant collections set within magnificent formal, informal and woodland areas. The gardens include numerous specimen shrubs and trees , a stunning bluebell valley, ornamental lake with picturesque Victorian Boathouse and formal cascade, Sunken Italian Garden, Serpentine Yew Tunnel, extensive Pinetum, Bamboo collection, atmospheric Rockery and Grotto, the Great Lawn and Summer Terrace. |
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