by cornishgardens | Nov 16, 2023 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis June 2009: A conversation with owner Sue Nathan It’s taken you less than 10 years to create a stunning 20-acre garden. What was Bonython like before then? hen my husband and I first saw Bonython, we fell in love with it. The manor...
by cornishgardens | Nov 14, 2023 | 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 | 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...
by cornishgardens | Nov 14, 2023 | 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...
