by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Events
Raised beds terraced on a hillside at Trelyn. Photographs: Charles Francis July 2011: For hundreds of years, the people of Polmassick and the surrounding area would gather at the village grist mill to grind their corn. This month, the mill will once again be a meeting...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Environment
Photographs: Charles Francis October 2011: A large truck laden with logs, leaves and grass cuttings is approaching the weighbridge at Splattenridden Farm, home of the Green Waste Company. Earlier this morning, the greenery was gathered from properties in Penzance as...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Gardening
Hawthorn berries. Photographs: Charles Francis All summer long, the young medlar tree in the Forest Garden at Budock Water was a glossy mass of emerald leaves — and after such a good start in life, it looks set to produce fruit in a year’s time. “You don’t want a tree...
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...
