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 | 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 | 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 | Apr 7, 2024 | 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 | Jul 9, 2018 | Environment
Photographs: Charles Francis May 2012: Over the centuries, many of Cornwall’s ancient woodlands have vanished — yet bluebells and wood sorrel which thrived beneath the trees long ago still survive in Cornish hedges, along with blackthorn, gorse,...
