Carminowe Valley

Carminowe Valley

Photographs: Charles Francis July 2011: A conversation with owner Marion Stanley This has the feel of an established garden, and yet it is only three years old. What did the site look like when you came to live here? It was a field, which was once pasture, but...
So you think you can’t grow roses in Cornwall?

So you think you can’t grow roses in Cornwall?

Concentric rose bed around the central rock fountain at Trewithen Rose Garden. Photographs: Charles Francis September 2009: Rows and rows of roses have made a magnificent multi-coloured patchwork this summer, in a field on the edge of a Cornish village. Yet in nearby...