Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden
For Barbara Hepworth, the discovery of the studio in St Ives where she was to live and work for more than 25 years was “a sort of magic”. “For 10 years I had passed by with my shopping bags, not knowing what lay behind the 20-foot wall,” the celebrated sculptor wrote, years later. “Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space.”
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Cotehele Mistletoe and Wassail
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 year, says head gardener David Bouch, with a smile.
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Heligan at 20
It was in 1990 that two men climbed, crawled and cut their way through thick hedges to find a long-forgotten garden sleeping under a forest of weeds and overgrown trees. Twenty years on, Tim Smit believes that the Lost Gardens of Heligan still offer visitors a sense of entering a magical world.
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Morrab Gardens
Sweeping lawns, formal flower beds, ornamental ponds, fountains and bandstands were among the attractions of the public parks created in the high noon of the Victorian era. There are fine examples of all these features at Morrab Gardens in Penzance.
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Penrose Kitchen Garden
The giant granite press in the tool shed at Penrose is a tangible reminder of centuries of apple-growing in the fields around Helston. It is a heavy piece of kit. “We don’t know how the press was brought in. Maybe it was there before the shed was built,” speculates National Trust ranger Laura David.
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St Just in Roseland churchyard
“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 the beauty of St Just-in-Roseland.” So wrote the writer and traveller H V Morton in his book In Search of England in 1927.
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Talland House
There were sweeping lawns at Talland House, an orchard and a kitchen garden, a fountain, cascades and ponds. It was at this enchanting place, with its spectacular outlook over St Ives Bay to Godrevy Lighthouse, that Virginia Woolf spent her childhood summers.
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Trebah Garden at 21
In the hills and valleys of Trebah, dozens of exotic trees are taking root among giant, much-loved which were once as small as the newcomers are now. Twenty-one years after the garden first opened to the public, Trebah is looking to the future as well as the past.
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Trelissick
There is a treat in store this month for the robins who live at Trelissick Garden: toast sprinkled with cider and spices. The birds are traditionally seen as the guardians of the nation’s orchards, and it is hoped that that this new year offering – during Trelissick’s all-singing, all-dancing Wassail ceremony – will inspire them to scare away evil spirits from the apple trees.
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Tremenheere Gardens
It dates from Cornwall’s industrial heyday – but a former water supply works hidden in a wooded valley above Mount’s Bay is being transformed to become a 21st century sculpture garden.
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Tresco Abbey Garden
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 Britain.
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