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...
by cornishgardens | Jul 12, 2018 | Garden Stories
Photographs: Charles Francis Tanglewood October 2014: A conversation with owners Tony and Kerry Marr Tanglewood is not only a wild garden, but a water garden. Was this what you planned to create here? Tony: We called it Tanglewood because that’s what it was like when...
