Teeming Down at Tremenheere
Reading time 10 minutes
Anyone who has spent time holidaying in Cornwall will know that the county’s weather can be relied upon to dictate your itinerary from start […]
tree ferns
Hello from The Beau
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Dan, in a moment of madness, has decided that he would like me to contribute now and again to his Frustrated Gardener blog. As […]
Heligan Harvest
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I first started visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan as a student in the very early 1990s. By then the Tremayne family’s forgotten […]
Trengwainton Gardens, Cornwall
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From a very early age my parents took me and my sister to visit gardens. I like to think the reason was to cultivate […]
The Remains of the Day
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There comes a point every year when I begin to lose sight of our London garden. It’s nothing to do with my failing vision […]
Trebah Gardens, Cornwall
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On the steep sides of the Helford River in Cornwall lie two famous gardens, as similar in style as the two halves of a […]
Plant Portraits: Dicksonia antartica
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For a while in the nineties, when television programmes such as Home Front and Ground Force ruled the air waves, tree ferns almost became […]
A Green Moment
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The British Isles are defined by the colour green. It should really be represented on our national flag, or at the least extolled by our national […]
Ready, Steady, Grow!
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Every day something new is happening in the garden. I’ve promised myself a five minute scout around each morning before work, bringing me closer […]
Undecided
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The plants in our two gardens seem divided on the question of whether autumn has arrived or not. The majority are getting a bit […]