by cornishgardens | Aug 26, 2024 | Community
An organic garden close to Penzance offers courses and workshops for novice growers along with home-grown produce Support worker Nathan Surry at the Community Garden February 2020: Every Thursday morning, visitors to Penzance Country Market can buy organic vegetables,...
by cornishgardens | Apr 22, 2024 | Community
Volunteers keeping their crops weed free. Photographs: Charles Francis November 2010: It is known as the Golden Mile: a south-facing stretch of sheltered, spectacularly fertile land on the fringes of Penzance, which can comfortably produce two crops a year. Last...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis February 2009: A conversation with head gardener Richard Morton What’s the history of the garden? The estate was purchased by Edward Bolitho in the 1830s, and by the 1880s, it was mentioned in horticultural journals as having an...
by cornishgardens | Apr 7, 2024 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis September 2013: A conversation with head gardener Richard Morton What is the history of the garden? The estate was purchased by Edward Bolitho in the 1830s, and by the 1880s, it was mentioned in horticultural journals as having an...
by cornishgardens | Jul 14, 2018 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis Trengwainton February 2013: A conversation with gardener Gareth Wearn Trengwainton means “dwelling near the spring”. What does this tell us about the history of this site? There are certainly a lot of springs here, and I wonder if...
