GARDENS TRUST MEMBERS’ VISITS 2017

UPDATED BOOKING FORM

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Telephone: ______Email address: ______(Please complete the information above so that we may update our membership records.) DATE TIME VENUE Cost per head Number in your party Tuesday 2.00 p.m. Port Eliot £10.00 including tea 13th June Thursday ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 6.00 p.m. 15th June and Duchy College, Rosewarne Thursday 6.00 p.m. Trenarth £7.00 including wine 22nd June Friday 6.00 p.m. Bochym Manor £7.00 including Pimm’s 7th July Wednesday 2.00 p.m. Morrab Gardens £6.00 including tea 19th July Thursday £12.00 (£3.00 for National 2.00 p.m. Trengwainton 7th September Trust members)

As usual, the visits will include guided tours by either the owner of the gardener.

Please note: There is a £2.00 surcharge per visit for non-members.

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Please complete the booking form, enclose either a stamped addressed envelope or your email address, and a cheque payable to CORNWALL GARDENS TRUST and send to:

EVENTS ORGANISER, TREVINCE, GWENNAP, , CORNWALL TR16 6BA [email protected] www.cornwallgardenstrust.org

Garden Descriptions

Port Eliot House, Port Eliot Estate, St Germans, , PL12 5ND Tuesday 13th June 2.00 p.m.

Humphrey Repton’s first foray into Cornwall, and one of only two Grade I gardens in Cornwall, Port Eliot is one of the great historic landscapes in the south-east of the county. The house sits in a formal landscape, with woodland garden beyond. There is an impressive range of garden structures, notably a superb orangery.

http://www.porteliot.co.uk/theGardens.php https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000426

Annual General Meeting at Duchy College, Rosewarne, , TR14 0AB Thursday 15th June 6.00 p.m.

Cornwall’s training ground for horticultural students (among others) provides a wonderful environment for learning about plants, from seed to maturity, including courses on garden planning, construction and planting. There are, greenhouses, propagation areas, a working nursery and at every turn there are unusual plants.

https://www.cornwall.ac.uk/location-pages/rosewarne-campus.html

Trenarth, Constantine, Falmouth, TR11 5JN Thursday 22nd June 6.00 p.m.

Planted for year round interest, with unusual specimens and a sense of fun, the gardens at Trenarth are based around a Georgian fronted farmhouse and its walled garden. There are some established shrubs and an orchard, but the vast majority of the garden been planted in the last 25 years, and covers a wide range of elements – yew rooms, with rockery and herbaceous beds, a bog garden, and a holm oak avenue.

http://www.trenarthgardens.com/garden.html

Bochym Manor, Cury Cross Lanes, , TR12 7AZ Friday 7th July 6.00 p.m.

The basic structure of the 17th century garden survives alongside the house. Both were updated in the mid-19th century, with a lovely woodland garden with Picturesque elements. In 2015 the new owners faced a mammoth task after the previous owner wilfully removed or destroyed significant features of both house and gardens. They have approached this with verve and tenacity and are creating a new, early 21st century garden, that respects and builds on the earlier landscape.

www.facebook.com/Bochym-Manor-Events-721396434602111

Morrab Gardens, , TR18 4DA Wednesday 19th July 2.00 p.m.

One of Cornwall’s premier municipal gardens, Morrab sits at the heart of Penzance and is a fine example of the Victorian urge to provide an open space for benefit of the local workers and Penznace’s tourist industry added another audience. Reflecting this, Morrab boasts a wealth of sub- tropical planting “where tourists may fancy themselves in the tropics or on Mediterranean shores”

www.morrabgardens.org

Trengwainton, Madron, Penzance, TR20 8RZ Thursday 7th September 2.00 p.m.

The extensive landscape of Trengwainton was laid out in the early 19th century but the developments of the 1920s by Col. Edward Bolitho are what gave the garden its present character, based initially in large part on Kingdon Ward’s plant hunting. A later stream garden provides a showcase for bog plants and the walled gardens are home to many tender plants.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/trengwainton-garden https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list- entry/1000657