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 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 | Jun 25, 2018 | Gardening
Photographs: Charles Francis January 2017: Beyond the westbound platform at Hayle Station is a hidden garden. Screened by ivy, honeysuckle and hawthorn, it is a haven for wildlife and a magical space for families who come to stay in the vintage railway carriage...
by cornishgardens | Jun 19, 2018 | Gardens
Photopgraphs: Charles Francis December 2008: “I have blundered into a Garden of Eden that cannot be described in pen or paint. There is a degree of beauty that flies so high that no net of words or snare of colour can hope to capture it, and of this order is...