Cornwall's Gardens
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Anthony House and Garden
Anthony HouseTorpoint
01752 812191
Open From: 01/04/99 Open Until: 28/10/99
In a Repton Landscape, fine vistas to the River Lynher. Features a formal courtyard, terraces, ornamental Japanese pond and knot garden.
Houses national collection of hemerocallis (500 varieties).
Antony Woodland Garden
Nr Antony HouseAnony Road
Torpoint
01752 814355 0r 812364
Open From: 01/03/99 Open Until: 31/10/99
Opening Hours:1100 to 1730 hrs. Sundays and Bank Holidays 1130 to 1730 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Toilets. No dogs. Car Park.
Groups: Welcome, prior booking desirable. Coach parking by arrangement.
An established woodland garden and natural woods extending 100 acres. Designed as one of natural beauty and of scientific interest.
Over 300 types of Camellias. Bordering the River Lynher.
The TerraceEdgcumbe Road
Lostwithiel
01208 873058
Open From: 01/05/99 Open Until: 29/05/99
Opening Hours:1430 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plants sales. Dogs on leads.
Directions: Turn by St. Luke's Nursing home, top of hill escape lane.
Groups: Pre-booked charity days only.
About one acre of gardens on three levels around house.
Victorian shrubs and borders, some unusual plants.
Boconnoc
Lostwithiel
01208 872507
Open From: 25/04/99 Open Until: 09/05/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1800 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas, toilets. Plant Sales. Dogs on lead. Car and coach park.
Directions: Off A390 east of Lostwithiel.
Groups: Welcome, charity days only.
Privately owned gardens covering some 20 acres, surrounded by parkland and woods.
Magnificent old trees, flowering shrubs and views.
Helston
01326 231351
Open From: 03/04/99 Open Until: 25/04/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1730 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access, Teas (charity days), toilets, dogs on leads, car and coach park.
Groups: Welcome, charity days and appointments only (minimum 6 persons).
5 acre valley garden on south bank of Helford River.
Magnificent views, water garden and streams. Specimen trees and shrubs.
Truro
01872 275774
Open From: 04/03/99 Open Until: 30/10/99
Opening Hours:1100 to 1800 hrs.
Facilities: Plant sales. Part disabled access. Toilets. No dogs. Car Park.
Groups: Coaches by appointment only.
Series of enclosed and walled gardens on 3 acre site surrounding Georgian House.
Mostly planted with herbaceous material for colour and foliage effect. A plantsman's garden best viewed in summer.
Burncoose Nurseries and Garden
GwennapRedruth
01209 861112
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:0830 to 1700 hrs. Sundays 1100 to 1700.
Facilities: Disabled access. Tea rooms. Toilets. Plant sales. Dogs on leads. Car & coach park.
Groups: Welcome.
30 acre woodland garden.
Alongside large working nursery offering over 3000 varieties of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Gold Medalist at Chelsea & major Flower Shows in UK and Italy.
Caerhays Castle Garden
CaerhaysGorran
St. Austell
01872 501144 (Recorded information service).
Open From: 15/03/99 Open Until: 14/04/99
Opening Hours:1100 to 1600 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. Dogs on lead. Free car & coach park.
Groups: Welcome, prior booking desirable. Coach park near.
Informal 60 acre woodland garden. Created by JC Williams who sponsored plant hunting expeditions to China.
Noted for Camellias, Magnolias, Rhododendrons.
Carclew Garden
Perran-ar-WorthalTruro
01872 864070
Open From: 02/05/99 Open Until: 16/05/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1739 hrs.
Facilities: Teas. No dogs. Car and coach park.
Groups: Welcome by appointment.
18th and 19th century walled and terraced gardens overlooking a pond garden with waterfall.
Notable ornamental trees, shrubs, massed rhododendrons and magnolias.First opened to the public in 1927.
Falmouth
01326 250258
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1000 to 1730 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. Dogs on lead. Car parking in drive.
Groups: Welcome.
An unmanicured valley garden with many camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas etc.
A reference collection of bamboos (Approx. 100 species). Wild flowers, ferns etc. Woodland walk to seashore.
Catchfrench Gardens
CatchfrenchSt. Germans
Liskeard
01503 240759
Open From: 01/03/99 Open Until: 03/10/99
Opening Hours:1030 to 1630 hrs (last admission).
Facilities: Part disabled access. Rae room. Toilets. Plant sales. No dogs except guide dogs. Historical interpretation material.
Directions: Off A38 5 miles east of Liskeard.
Groups: Welcome. Advance booking essential.
Under restoration: 25 acre historic Repton landscaped garden to 'Red Book' design, newly planted Elizabethan & quarry gardens.
A fine spring garden with magnolias, rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas.
Looe
01503 240363
Open From: 16/05/99 Open Until:
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700
Facilities: Disabled access. Teas. Toilets. No dogs.
Groups: Welcome by appointment. Coach park by arrangement.
250 years old walled garden.
Shrubs, flower and woodland. in all about 7.5 acres situated in the centre of Morval Estate.
Truro
01872 540324
Open From: 01/03/99 Open Until: 30/06/99
Opening Hours:
Facilities: Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car & coach park.
Groups: Welcome by appointment only. Parties 20+ £3.50 or by arrangement.
Outstanding collection of trees and shrubs flanked by Georgian landscape (1770).
Together with some splendid Primulas, lysichitum and wild flowers. Tradescants 'Magic Jungle'.
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Saltash
01579 351346
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1100 hrs to dusk.
Facilities: Shop, Restaurant & Historic House, separate admission and opening times. Disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. No dogs. Car & coach park.
Groups: Welcome, all parties over 10 persons must pre-book.
Large mature garden with some steep paths. Daffodil meadow, unusual trees & small acers. Woodland walks to Calstock & Cotehele Mill.
Formal terraced rose garden with magnolias & climbers. Sheltered valley with dovecote, 18th century tower, unusual shrubs, rhododendrons & azaleas.
Creed
Grampound
01872 530372
Open From: 01/04/99 Open Until: 30/09/99
Opening Hours:1000 to 1730 hrs. Charity days - 1400 to 1730 hrs.
Facilities: Unsuitable for disabled. Dogs on lead. Teas and plants sales charity days only.
Groups: Welcome by appointment - April to September; coach park by arrangement.
Intriguing 5 acre landscaped Georgian Rectory garden. Restoration began 1974, includes recent plantings.
Tree collection, rhododendrons. Sunken alpine & walled herbaceous gardens. Trickle stream, ponds and bog. Natural woodland walks.
Budock
Falmouth
01326 250308
Open From: 25/04/99 Open Until: 02/05/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1800 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. teas. Dogs on leads. Car park.
Groups: Welcome.
From a bramble/thistle infested field in 1983, this 3 acre garden now has a considerable variety of plants and passable sloping lawns from continuous cutting, interspersed with trees & shrubs.
Fox Rosehill Gardens - Falmouth
Melvill RoadFalmouth
01872 224355
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:Dawn to Dusk.
Facilities: Disabled access. Dogs on leads. Car & coach parking nearby.
Groups: Welcome.
Long established picturesque 2 acre garden, created by the Fox family. Contains many exotic trees and shrubs.
Some specimens only found in mildest climates flourish in secluded corner of this pleasant location.
Lanteglos-by-Fowey
Fowey
01726 870600
Open From: 16/05/99 Open Until: 30/05/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. No dogs. Toilets. Car park. No coaches.
Groups: Small groups.
Sheltered 1 acre garden. Contrasting flower beds, some raised for disabled gardeners.
Rhododendrons, azaleas, variety of trees. Pond, bog garden, gunnera, ferns, annuals, perennials, wild flowers, vegetables; local stone made paths.
Garvinack Farm Woodland
Garvinack FarmTregavethan
Truro
01872 560385
Open From: 15/03/99 Open Until: 30/04/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas. Toilet. Plant sales. Dogs on lead. Car park nearby.
Groups: Welcome charity days and by appointment other days.
A woodland walk of 3 acres planted about 1956.
Many varieties of camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons growing in quiet wood carpeted with wood anemones and bluebells in season.
Falmouth
01326 250906
Open From: 02/03/99 Open Until: 30/10/99
Opening Hours:1030 to 1730 hrs. Last admission 1630 hrs.
Facilities: Tea house. Plant sales. Toilets. No dogs. Car & coach park.
Groups: Welcome.
Valley Garden N-S to Helford River and picturesque Durgan. Planted since 1820s by Alfred Fox and descendants; from 1962 by the National Trust.
Exotic vegetation with camellias, magnolias, specimen trees and laurel maze.
Perranporth
01872 573382
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1330 to 1700 hrs. Or by appointment.
Facilities: Teas, plant sales, no dogs, car park.
Directions: 400 yards from Bollingey Inn.
Groups: Welcome at all times, booked in advance.
Half acre sheltered valley garden with stream and old mill leat. Year round colour. 1 mile walk for the energetic.
Old granite trough plantings. Smaller gardener can relate to wide variety of plants.
Gyllyngdune Gardens - Falmouth
Princess PavilionMelvill Road
Falmouth
01872 224355
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1st May to 30th September 0800 to 2000 hrs. 1st October to 30th April 0800 to 1630 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car park.
Directions: Adjacent to Princess Pavilion.
Groups: Welcome.
The Victorian verandah and nearby renovated bandstand, together with the numerous display of hanging baskets provide an excellent setting.
Headland Garden
3 Battery LanePolruan-by-Fowey
Fowey
01726 870243
Open From: 01/05/99 Open Until: 30/07/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1800 hrs.
Facilities: Toilets. No Dogs. Disabled very welcome but very difficult for wheelchairs, crutches possible.
Groups: Welcome, prior booking essential. No access for coaches.
One and a quarter acre cliff garden, sea level to 100' above. Sea on 3 sides. Access to cove for bathing.
Plants and trees withstand spray & gales. Monterey pines, olearis, eucalyptus, sub-tropicals and wild flowers.
Ince Castle Gardens & Grounds
Ince CastleSaltash
01752 842249
Open From: Open Until:
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car park.
Directions: Signposts on A38, west of Saltash, to Trematon then Elmgate.
Groups: By appointment only. No large coaches - mini coaches only.
9 acre gardens surround the castle. Panoramic views of River Lynher.
Spring bulbs, superb camellias and magnolias followed by rare and interesting summer plants. Shell house, lily pond & planted conservatory.
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