Gardens in Cornwall

Cornwall has a number of superb gardens throughout the county and is world renown for having some of the best public gardens in the world. A few of the most popular ones are:

Lamorran Gardens
Stargazers is situated next door to Lamorran and Moonrakers only five minutes walk away.

Lamorran boasts over four acres of sub-tropical paradise planted with an adventurous range of plants that flourish in it waterside location.When Robert Dudley- Cooke moved to Lamorran in 1982 he brought with him many types of rhododendrons and azaleas. Now you can find over 500 varieties of azaleas bursting into bloom as a result of his initial efforts.

Lamorran is open to the public  April -  September on a Wednesday and Friday 10am to 5pm

Trebah
The garden was opened to the public in 1987 and by 1989 visitor numbers had reached 36,000. The Hibbert family then gave the house, garden and cottages to the Trebah Garden Trust, a registered charity, to ensure that the garden could be preserved for future generations.

In 2000 visitor numbers had exceeded 105,000 and a £1.94 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Objective One allowed Trebah to build the new 'Hibbert Centre', to rebuild Alice Hext's seat, restore the nursery and carry out major landscaping and garden improvements.

Lost Gardens of Heligan
The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. The style of the gardens is typical of the nineteenth century Gardenesque style, with areas of different character and in different design styles.

The gardens were created by members of the Cornish Tremayne family, over a period from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century, and still form part of the family's Heligan estate. The gardens were neglected after the First World War, and only restored in the 1990s, a restoration that was the subject of several popular television programmes and books.

Trelissick Gardens
The garden has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1955 when it was donated by Ida Copeland following the death of her son Geoffrey, a stained glass memorial--bearing the Copeland Crest - remains to this effect in the small church in Feock.

Many of the species that flourish in the mild Cornish air, including the rhododendrons and azaleas which are now such a feature of the garden, were planted by the Copelands including hydrangeas, camellias and flowering cherries, and exotics such as the ginkgo and various species of palm. They also ensured that the blossoms they nurtured had a wider, if unknowing audience. Mr Ronald Copeland was chairman and later managing director of his family's business, the Spode china factory, and flowers grown at Trelissick were used as models for those painted on ware produced at the works.

St Just in Roseland Church
St Just in Roseland is famous for its 13th century church set in riverside gardens luxuriantly planted with semitropical shrubs and trees, many of which are species rare in England.[citation needed] The church perches on the edge of a tidal creek beside the Carrick Roads on the Fal Estuary just outside the main village. The path from the road to the Church is lined with granite blocks carved with quotations and verses taken from the Bible.

Lanhydrock House
The great house stands in extensive grounds (360 hectares or 890 acres) above the River Fowey and is has been owned and managed by the National Trust since 1953[5]. Much of the present house dates back to Victorian times but some sections date from the 1620s. It is a Grade I listed building[6] and is set in gardens with formal areas. The hill behind the house is planted with a fine selection of shrubs and trees.

The Eden Project
The complex is dominated by two gigantic enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house plant species from around the world. Each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The domes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The first dome emulates a tropical environment, and the second a Mediterranean environment.