by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | People
Photographs: Charles Francis September 2016: For a trainee horticulturalist, the chance to spend a year working in the celebrated subtropical Tresco Abbey Garden is surely the fulfilment of a dream. Yet Alasdair Moore admits: “I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know...
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Plants
Photographs: Charles Francis December 2016: There will be much carousing and banging of drums in the orchards at Cotehele seven days before Christmas. This traditional wassail ceremony is all about encouraging the trees to produce a good crop of apples next...
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Plants
Photographs: Charles Francis June 2016: Charlie Brown is in the naughty corner. But the eye-catching clematis with the flamboyant bright pink blooms will soon be ready to be replanted in the garden at Roseland House. Clematis viticella ‘Charlie...
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Nurseries and Florists
Photographs: Charles Francis March 2017: For generations, the Sandry family have farmed at Trevisker, just outside Padstow. There were 350 sheep and 50 bullocks on the mixed farm when Mark Sandry was a boy, and his father also grew barley and made hay. Twenty...
by cornishgardens | Jul 4, 2018 | Gardens
Photographs: Charles Francis September 2017: Subtropical plants have flourished in the sunshine and shelter of Tresco Abbey Garden for well over a century — but 30 years ago, the island paradise suffered catastrophic damage when ferocious winds battered...
