Cornwall's Gardens
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Liskeard
01579 362446
Open From: 11/04/99 Open Until: 25/08/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1800 hrs.
Facilities: No dogs. Car & coach park.
Groups: Welcome, prior booking essential.
4 acres mostly planted in 1970; well designed and labelled plantsman's garden; rhododendrons, flowering shrubs, conifers and other trees.
Herbaceous plants, panoramic views. Collection of aviary birds.
Lamorran House
Upper Castle RoadSt. Mawes
01326 270800
Open From: 05/04/99 Open Until: 30/09/99
Opening Hours:1000 to 1700 hours. Other hours by appointment.
Facilities: Unsuitable for disabled. Toilets.Plant sales. No dogs. Car parking in road.
Groups: Welcome, charity and other times, prior booking essential.
A mediterranean four acre hillside garden overlooking the sea and St. Antony's Head.
The water gardens are a particular feature while palms and other sub-tropical plants abound.
01208 72756
Open From: Open Until:
Opening Hours:
Facilities: Part disabled access. Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car park.
Groups: Welcome by appointment in Spring only.
Four and a half acres mainly trees and shrubs. Formal in parts.
Fine collection of rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas. Many other shrubs.
Bodmin
01208 73320
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1100 to 1730 hrs.
Admission: Garden and grounds (March 1st to October 31st) £3.20, Pre-arranged parties £5.50, Family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) House Garden & Grounds £16. Garden only, open free November 1st '99 to February 29th 2000.
Facilities: Disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. No dogs (except park & woodlands). Car and coach park.
30 acre formal/informal/woodland garden laid out since 1857. Exceptional magnolias both mature and young. Splendid views.
Large number hybrid rhododendrons. Many rare trees and shrubs. Unique circular herbaceous garden.
Mylor
01326 312656
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1100 hrs to dusk.
Facilities: Plant sales. Limited car parking.
Groups: Small groups welcome, no coach parking near.
Small one owner garden. Creekside walks near Pandora Inn.
Wide variety of shrubs, bulbs, herbaceous, perennials and conservatory/greenhouse plants. Small streams & wet area, also dry stony plantings.
Longcross Victorian Gardens
TrelightsPort Isaac
01208 880243
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1030 hrs to dusk.
Facilities: Disabled access. Restaurant. Public House. Toilets. Dogs on leads. Plant sales. Car & coach park.
Groups: Welcome, on site coach park and hotel.
Victorian garden of 2.5 acres. Many features; small lake, maze type walkways, dovecote, cream tea garden, child's play area, pets corner.
Shrub and herbaceous plants.
Mary Newman's Cottage
48 Culver RoadSaltash
01579 362939
Open From: 01/05/99 Open Until: 30/09/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1630 hrs.
Facilities: Toilets. Dogs on Lead. Car & coach park nearby.
Directions: Off Fore Street and Waterside.
Groups: Welcome, includes short lecture re Mary Newman and Cottage restoration. Pre-booking essential.
A peaceful pleasant setting overlooking the River Tamar and Brunel's famous bridge. Mary Newman was Drake's first wife.
Cottage garden with herbs a speciality, shrubs and trees.
Mount Edgcumbe House and Park
CremyllTorpoint
01752 822236
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1100 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. Restaurant. Toilets. Plant sales. Dogs on Lead. Car and coach park. Restaurant opens from 1030 hrs.
Groups: Welcome, booking essential, form available on request.
Earliest landscaped garden in Cornwall. Grade 1 historic garden, temples, follies, shell seat. Woodland & spectacular coastal walks.
National camellia collection. Daffodils, bluebells. Formal gardens in European, New Zealand and American styles.
Liskeard
01579 343114
Open From: 14/02/99 Open Until: 30/10/99
Opening Hours:1300 to 1700 hours.
Facilities: Disabled access. Plant sales. No dogs.
Directions: On B3254, 300 yards south of Liskeard Rail Station.
Groups: Welcome by appointment only.
Mature acre garden; begun in 1927; now being revived by originator's niece.
Broom 'Moyclare Pink', Astrantia 'Moria Reid' found here. Rare and unusual plants/shrubs many variegated. A plantlover's delight.
Old Mill Herbary
Helland BridgeBodmin
01208 841206
Open From: 01/04/99 Open Until: 30/09/99
Opening Hours:1000 to 1700 hrs. Charity day 1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Toilet. Plant sales. No dogs. Car park.
Groups: Welcome, prior booking essential. Coach parking by arrangement only.
5 acres semi-wild terraced gardens, woodland, mini-arboretum and walk by River Camel. Leat to bog garden. Aquatics, fountains and fishpond.
Chamomile lawn, shrubs and climbers. Named culinary medicinal and aromatic herbs, around Greek fertility theme.
Penzance
Written communication only please.
Open From: 04/04/99 Open Until:
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Cream Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. No dogs. Car park near.
Groups: Unsuitable for coaches.
Unusual and spectacular 5 acres of garden in rocky valley going down to the sea. Started 1922 by present owner's grandfather. Tumbling stream.
Camellias, azaleas, and other shrubs amongst massive natural boulders. Bog plants.
Bodmin
01208 841369
Open From: 01/04/99 Open Until: 15/10/99
Opening Hours:1330 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. Dogs on lead. Car and coach park.
Groups: Welcome, coach park.
50 acres mature, formal and woodland scheduled historic gardens. Mile long drive, lake, formal Italian gardens and huge granite rockery. Plant shop.
Specializing in specimen conifers, rhododendrons (680+ different species & hybrids) & camellias.
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Launceston
01566 785241
Open From: 18/04/99 Open Until:
Opening Hours:1430 to 1730 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car and coach park nearby.
Groups: Welcome, charity days only, pre-booked.
Young walled garden. Terrace with some climbers.
Interesting collection of spring shrubs and summer flowering herbaceous plants surround lawn and island bed.
Penheale Manor Gardens
Penheale ManorEgloskerry
Launceston
01566 785486
Open From: 23/05/99 Open Until:
Opening Hours:1430 to 1730 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. Dogs on lead. Car and coach park.
Groups: Welcome, charity days only, pre-booked in writing.
Magnificent yew hedges which divide and shelter herbaceous borders. There is a formal rose garden and areas of lawn.
Woodland garden with superb collection of camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias.
Falmouth
01872 870105
Open From: 01/03/99 Open Until: 30/09/99
Opening Hours:1330 to 1630 hrs. Charity days 1130 to 1630 hrs.
Facilities: Plant sales (charity days). Dogs on lead. Car parking on verge only.
Groups: Welcome, pre-booked. Coach parking by arrangement only.
15 acre garden. Sea view. Luxuriant valley garden features ponds in wild woodland setting.
Home of Barclayi and Penjerrick rhododendrons, camellias, bamboos, tree ferns and magnificent trees.
Hayle
01736 753146
Open From: 01/06/99 Open Until: 01/08/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1800 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. Toilets. No dogs. Car and coach park nearby.
Groups: Welcome, by appointment.
Old fashioned unusual garden. Delphiniums, roses, iris, herbaceous borders, walled garden with pond.
Fuchsia, yew, box hedges, lawns, pocket gardens, climbing roses, granite troughs. Alkaline soils. Plenty of ideas here.
Falmouth
01326 250325
Open From: 14/03/99 Open Until: 18/04/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Unsuitable for disabled. Toilets. No dogs. Car park.
Groups: Welcome, prior booking essential.
Pond with ornamental ducks and peacocks. Stream running through garden provides areas for primulas and tree ferns.
Azaleas, camellias, rhododendrons, and magnolias together with shrubs from New Zealand.
St. Austell
01726 73500
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Plant sales (Rare and Unusual). No dogs. Car and coach park.
Groups: Welcome - by appointment; guided tours for groups of 20+ available all year round.
6 acres in 30 acres of parkland, lake (black swans) and woodland. Japanese garden under construction.
Plants labelled. Pinetum, Arboretum, wildlife pond, shrubs, herbaceous water features, marsh garden, many rare and tender plants (6000+).
Helston
01326 280468
Open From: 01/04/99 Open Until: 31/07/99
Opening Hours:Charity days 1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Plant sales. No dogs.
Groups: Welcome, by appointment only.
Fascinating woodland garden. Sheltered valley and spectacular cliff views. Created since 1969 against natural gorse, heather and wild flowers.
Camellias, rhododendrons, small pinetum, pond prehistoric sites, museum and water feature.
Truro
01872 862612
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:Charity days 1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Toilets. Dogs on leads. Teas and plant sales on charity days.
Groups: Welcome by appointment all year round.
Three and a half acre garden with woodlands to shore of Carrick Roads. Beautiful views and setting.
Many unusual shrubs and fine trees including the reputedly largest Ginko Biloba in Britain.
St. Austell
01726 72888
Open From: 14/03/99 Open Until: 02/05/99
Opening Hours:1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car and coach park.
Groups: Welcome, charity days and other times by appointment only.
Garden of 3 acres overlooking St. Austell Bay.
Many camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons. A hillside of primroses, violets and cherry trees is a special feature.
01841 532411
Open From: 04/04/99 Open Until: 30/09/99
Opening Hours:1330 to 1700 hrs. Bank Holiday Mondays 1100 to 1700.
Facilities: Part disabled access. Teas. Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car park.
Groups: Welcome, by prior arrangement.
Deer Park and newly restored areas of garden overlooking Camel Estuary, containing many fine features and views. Formal sunken garden now complete.
Truro
01726 882597
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1000 to 1600 hrs.
Facilities: Wheelchair access. Cafe. Shop. Toilets. No dogs. Car and coach park.
Groups: Welcome. Booking essential for guided tours.
Under new management. 7 acre horticultural education and advice centre. Diverse labelled plant collections.
Small garden models, water wise practices, low allergen, fruit and vegetable gardens, coastal planting a speciality.
Queen Mary Gardens - Falmouth
Cliff RoadFalmouth
01872 224355
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1st May to 30th December; 0800 to 2000 hrs. 1st October to 30th April - 0800 to 1630 hrs.
Facilities: Disabled access. Toilets. Dogs on lead. Car & coach park nearby.
Groups: Welcome.
Seafront Gardens form attractive back cloth to Gyllyngvase Beach. Extensively renovated in 1992 with hard & soft landscaping.
Boasts 300' herbaceous border and variety of summer bedding schemes.
Truro
01872 560451
Open From: 01/01/99 Open Until: 30/12/99
Opening Hours:1300 to 1800 hrs. Charity Sundays 1400 to 1700 hrs.
Facilities: Teas. Toilets. Plant sales. Dogs on lead. Car and coach parking nearby. On bus routes 18 and 40.
Groups: Most of year by appointment.
1 acre garden sub-divided by walls and trellises hosting a wide range of climbers.
Mixed borders of unusual plants, Victorian conservatory and greenhouse extend the gardening year.
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