by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photograph: Charles Francis September 2008: A conversation with owners Dan Thomas, gardener, and Peter Skerrett, artist What’s the story behind the garden? Dan: It was agricultural land which was turned into a market garden in the 1950s, and became a nursery in...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis March 2017: A conversation with Jacqui Owen, community engagement officer for Falmouth Town Council and Cormac Solutions, and gardeners Howard Burns and Matt Stannard Fox Rosehill is not well known, despite its location close to the...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
January 2011: A conversation with gardener Josephine Stewart This is a garden with a long and illustrious history. What’s the story? Fox Rosehill was created by the Fox family — who were Quakers here in Falmouth — after they established a shipping agency in the...
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...
