by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis Trenarth May 2010: A conversation with owner Lucie Nottingham Trenarth’s first open day this year is on the evening of May 23. What made you decide to go for a 6pm opening? I’m hoping it will be like a giant party. There will be wine...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis June 2013: A conversation with marketing manager Lorna Tremayne and head gardener Mike Friend Cornwall Today readers have voted Heligan their favourite garden. Why do people love it so much? Lorna: People have such a strong...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Gardening
Hawthorn berries. Photographs: Charles Francis All summer long, the young medlar tree in the Forest Garden at Budock Water was a glossy mass of emerald leaves — and after such a good start in life, it looks set to produce fruit in a year’s time. “You don’t want a tree...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Gardening
Photographs: Charles Francis September 2013: The bright white summerhouse perched high above Readymoney Cove offers a seagull’s eye view of a re-awakened Victorian garden which rises in tiers on the steep slopes of the valley below. “Garden design is all about...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Plants
Kath planting tulip bulbs. Photographs: Charles Francis October 2008: When the Eden Project first began to take shape in a disused china claypit, the attention of the waiting world naturally focused on the fantastic, futuristic structures of the giant greenhouses...
