Gardens of Cornwall Blooming

Six gardens join Gardens if Cornwall to coincide with the first anniversary of the £1.4 million marketing campaign launched by Cornwall Enterprise and funded through the Objective One Programme.

The new member gardens feature in the latest Cornwall Gardens guide and the updated website – check out Gardens of Cornwall. The website has been updated to reflect the most recent trail of gardens, and includes a Garden Finder allowing users to find all the gardens located in particular areas on a map of Cornwall, or to search for specific gardens by name.

New members are, Potager Garden, Enys Gardens, Tregoose Garden, Tregothnan Botanic Garden, Moyclare and Trecanna Nursery.

Potager Garden is a new four and a half acre garden being created within a wild and overgrown site, abundant with trees and shrubs reflecting its former life as a garden nursery. Located close to the village of Constantine, five miles west of Falmouth, it is surrounded by rural landscape encompassing the beautiful Helford river estuary. It is ideally situated for a garden trail visit with Trebah, Glendurgan and Carwinion all within easy reach.

Enys Gardens is one of the oldest gardens in Cornwall, with Robert Enys living at the Estate from 1272 - 1307. The gardens cover 50 acres of the 1000 acre estate in Penryn. Many of the species found in the formal gardens were sourced from New Zealand and Patagonia – resulting in great diversity and amazing sights, such as: rare bamboos, a Peruvian Laurel, one of very few growing in England and the striking Maiden Hair Fern, believed to be the tallest of its type outside Kew Gardens. Enys Gardens also features a water wheel and lakes in the lower valley. In the Spring the parkland becomes a carpet of bluebells. It is dog friendly and perfect for long walks.

Restored over the last 20 years, Tregoose Garden in Truroisa two acre garden featuring a collection of 60 varieties of snowdrops, mature trees, many rare plants and shrubs, typically Cornish camellias and rhododendrons, including the 30 foot ‘Cornish Red’ variety of rhododendron, a sunken, herbaceous walled garden, a croquet lawn, overlooked by a tulip tree and eucryphia, and a recently laid-out potager, which provides flowers and vegetables.

At 40 hectares, the largest historic garden in Cornwall, Tregothnan Botanic Garden in Truro, has been home to the Boscawen family since 1300. It features the Tea Garden, the first ever European tea plantation and is the largest privately run garden in Cornwall.

In contrast, Moyclare’s one acre garden in Liskeard, is easily accessible by the paths that meander between the beds filled with informal planting. New features in Moyclare include a pergola covered with golden hop and a pond bordered by astilbes.

Joining the gardens, Trecanna Nursery is a family-run specialist plant nursery in Latchley, which overlooks Devon from the Cornish banks of the Tamar Valley. It grows a wide range of unusual bulbs, perennials and hardy South African plants.

For further information and to request a copy of the 2006 Cornwall Gardens Guide, go to www.gardensofcornwall.com or call 01872 322800.