by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Nurseries and Florists
Photographs: Charles Francis July 2016: West Cornwall nursery Trevena Cross has gained a national reputation for its almost unrivalled range of exotic plants. Yet the business began with a more down-to-earth crop — the humble cabbage. “We had row upon row of...
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Nurseries and Florists
Photographs: Charles Francis May 2016: Daniel Michael can still remember the thrill he felt when he took delivery of his first order of rare succulents. “I used to buy them from America, and sometimes I was the only person in the country to have them,” he says....
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Nurseries and Florists
Photographs: Charles Francis March 2017: For generations, the Sandry family have farmed at Trevisker, just outside Padstow. There were 350 sheep and 50 bullocks on the mixed farm when Mark Sandry was a boy, and his father also grew barley and made hay. Twenty...
by cornishgardens | Jun 26, 2018 | Nurseries and Florists
Photographs: Charles Francis Clarence and Bartholomew began life in Mediterranean sunshine — but they have adapted well to their new home in the windswept far west of Cornwall. The two spectacular Butea capitata specimens are among an impressive range of mature...
