by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis December 2011: A conversation with head gardener Dave Bouch Every year, visitors to Cotehele in December can see a 60-foot garland of dried flowers, all grown in the garden. What’s the story behind it? It’s quite a recent tradition,...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis May 2011: A conversation with owners Carol and Robert Moule What’s the history of Chygurno? Carol: The house was built just over 100 years ago by two suffragettes who set up a branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union in...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis July 2011: A conversation with owner Marion Stanley This has the feel of an established garden, and yet it is only three years old. What did the site look like when you came to live here? It was a field, which was once pasture, but...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Plants
Concentric rose bed around the central rock fountain at Trewithen Rose Garden. Photographs: Charles Francis September 2009: Rows and rows of roses have made a magnificent multi-coloured patchwork this summer, in a field on the edge of a Cornish village. Yet in nearby...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis April 2014: A conversation with owners Peter and Tricia Howard It is 15 years since you started creating a garden and nursery at a former smallholding. What are your memories of those early years? Peter: When we came here, the removal van...
