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A city dweller fell in love with an island garden – and with an islander

by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | People

Photographs: Charles Francis   September 2016:  For a trainee horticulturalist, the chance to spend a year working in the celebrated subtropical Tresco Abbey Garden is surely the fulfilment of a dream. Yet Alasdair Moore admits: “I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know...

Cornwall is joining National Garden Scheme anniversary celebrations

by cornishgardens | Jun 25, 2018 | People

Photographs: Charles Francis   April 2017: There is no species of euphorbia named after Mozart — but a woman who visited Christopher Harvey Clark’s Hampshire garden several years ago may still be searching for this mythical variety. On the morning before he...

Cornwall is an inspiration for artists who specialise in painting plants

by cornishgardens | Jun 12, 2018 | People

Marjorie sketching a plant specimen. Photographs: Charles Francis   December 2007: The flourishing career of acclaimed botanical artist Marjorie Blamey is rooted in a love of the Cornish wildflowers she first painted on her farm near Liskeard more than 40 years...
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