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 | Jul 9, 2018 | Gardening
Photographs: Charles Francis May 2012: When spring sun and rain bring lush, rampant growth back to hibernating gardens, many a novice gardener is tempted to splash out on a set of shiny new tools. But old hands know that old tools are better. After a bit of a...
by cornishgardens | Jul 9, 2018 | Gardening
Photographs: Charles Francis November 2013: Winemaker Paul Sibley likes to describe St Ewe as the vineyard capital of Cornwall. “We’re the only Cornish parish to have two vineyards — and probably the only parish in the country,” he says with a smile. When Paul...
by cornishgardens | Jul 5, 2018 | Gardening
Photograph: courtesy Darren Hawkes May 2015: Beneath a canopy of mature elms, foxgloves and campions sprawl among monolithic stones. This looks like a garden dating back decades, which has been left to go wild in a post-industrial landscape — yet it only...
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Gardening
Photographs: Charles Francis September 2016: There are Jerusalem artichokes growing above the beach, along with rhubarb and raspberries, sorrel and chop suey greens. This is the Porthminster kitchen garden, created on a sloping patch of wasteground between...
