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 | Plants
Kath planting tulip bulbs. Photographs: Charles Francis October 2008: When the Eden Project first began to take shape in a disused china claypit, the attention of the waiting world naturally focused on the fantastic, futuristic structures of the giant greenhouses...
by cornishgardens | Jul 15, 2018 | Plants
Photographs: Charles Francis September 2015: Mike Mann gazes across a garden full of gorgeous dahlias. “People often say to me: ‘Which is your favourite?’” he says. “I can genuinely say that it’s one of the most difficult questions I ever have to answer.” And...
by cornishgardens | Jul 8, 2018 | Plants
Photographs: Charles Francis October 2014: The lichen-covered trees in the old orchards around Coombe Creek are laden with dark, damson-like fruit. Nick Coley gives one of the trees a good shake. You can’t hurry a Kea plum – but on this sunny August afternoon,...
by cornishgardens | Jul 5, 2018 | Plants
Photographs: Charles Francis November 2015: Sally Holmes has looked stunning all summer — but now she’s in need of some beauty sleep. This ravishing rambling rose, with flowers the colour of clotted cream, must take a break from blooming if she is to be at her...
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Plants
Photographs: Charles Francis March 2016: The new year was just three days old when the first magnolias of the season burst into bloom at Caerhays Castle — almost two months ahead of their normal flowering time. Charles Williams, owner of the estate, described...
