by cornishgardens | Nov 15, 2023 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis April 2009: A conversation with owners William and Lally Croggon What’s the history of the garden? William: It used to be quite a special garden in the traditional Cornish Rectory style. William Gregor, the rector here in the...
by cornishgardens | Nov 14, 2023 | 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 | Nov 14, 2023 | Community
Jacquie Rich, Luke Allanson-Clarke and Alan Nicholas in the greenhouse. Photographs: Charles Francis June 2012: People blossom when they come to Kehelland. The village, just outside Camborne, is the home of a horticultural centre which offers training and work...
by cornishgardens | Nov 14, 2023 | 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 | Nov 14, 2023 | Plants
How a whole world of plants have made their home in a former Cornish china claypit 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...
