with a stream and bridge.


Poppy Cottage Garden is an inspirational plantsman’s garden combining colour, form and texture set in approximately one acre divided into many garden ‘rooms’


Situated in the heart of the beautiful Roseland Peninsula, Poppy Cottage Garden supplies all year-round interest. Planted as a series of rooms, small gardens in


themselves, it is brimming with an assortment of plants. There are also plenty of places to sit and enjoy a cup of tea and a piece of home made cake.


There is also a small orchard with unusual ducks and chickens and a small nursery area with a wide range of herbaceous plants for sale. The stunning Styrax will be starting to look it’s best if you visit in June. Talks for local Garden Clubs and Groups can be arranged.


Location: Poppy Cottage, Ruan High Lanes, Truro, Cornwall TR2 5JR. One mile NW of Veryan. On the Roseland Peninsula, 4m from Tregony on A3078 road to St Mawes.


Open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, March to September, 2pm – 5.30pm or by appointment. NGS Open Day Sun 20th June, 2pm – 5.30pm.


Admission: £3, children free. There is a gravel area at the entrance but there is wheelchair access to most of garden. Dogs only allowed on a lead due to ducks and chickens in the orchard. Home made teas available.


Telephone: 01872 501411 Email: poppycottagegarden@btinternet.com Website: www.poppycottagegarden.co.uk


Pine Lodge Gardens


Pine Lodge Gardens are on part of the Cuddra Estate just east of St. Austell. The Garden covers 30 acres and the range of plants is huge. If you’re on the hunt for rare plants and those now extinct in the wild, then look no further than Pine Lodge Gardens. There are over 60 varieties of hardy geraniums too.


This beautiful estate comprises gardens within a garden. Some 6,000 plants, all labelled, have been thoughtfully laid out using original designs and colour combinations to provide maximum interest. A selection of rhododendrons, magnolias, camellias, herbaceous borders with many rare and tender plants plus marsh gardens, tranquil lily ponds and a lake with black swans are all within the park.


In 1993 a four-acre pinetum was planted with over 80 varieties of firs ranging from the ground hugging Microbiota decussata to the enormous Sequoiadendron giganteum. There are ponds with Koi carp and marsh gardens with giant Gunnera manicata, candelabra primulas and many waterside iris. A wildlife pond sustains a wonderful range of dragonflies and other aquatic life. A larger lake was added in 1994. Many rare and tender plants are grown and with so much to see here the emphasis in planning has been very much towards colour combinations


16 Trebah House is in one of Cornwall’s most stunning locations Trebah


A well known, old Cornish garden resplendent with decades of careful planting. In this beautiful 26-acre site there are huge tree ferns which are 100 years old and stunning subtropical exotic plants waiting to be discovered. The hydrangea collection alone covers 2½ acres. Many interesting features of this garden include a water garden, waterfall and a rock pool stocked with mature Koi carp. The natural spring at the top of the garden drops 10ft into the Koi Pool and cascades through drifts of brightly coloured waterside plantings. Many of the plants, such as the


and co-ordination. The plants are all labelled so take pen and paper when you visit this superb “all-year-round- garden”.


Location: Holmbush, St Austell PL25 3RQ. One mile east of St Austell, on the A390 between Holmbush and St Blazey at the junction of A391. There is ample free car parking available.


Open: Seven days a week from 10am to 6pm, last admission at 5pm.


Admission: £6.50, children £3, concessions £6, Pre-booked organised groups of 20+ are welcome. Home made cakes and Cornish teas are available and plants are for sale. There are also toilets on site. No dogs.


Telephone: 01726 73500 Website: www.pinelodgegardens.co.uk


Trebah is known internationally for its huge gunnera plants Country Gardener


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