SELF-DRIVE VISIT Scorrier House, Redruth and Trevince, Gwennap Wednesday 1st May 2019 10.30am and 2.30pm Organisers: Caroline Hooper Caroline Rucker Pendavy, St Breward Hooper’s Barn, West Carne Bodmin PL30 4PF Altarnun, Launceston PL15 7SP Tel: 01208 851315 Tel: 01566 86126 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] To find out more about the Cornwall Garden Society, you can like us on facebook.com/ CornwallGardenSociety, follow @CwllGardenSoc on Twitter and Instagram or visit Your contact for this event is Caroline Hooper cornwallgardensociety.org.uk Please retain this section for your information PPLEASE RETAIN THIS SECTION FOR YOUR INFORMATION To reserve a place on this visit, please fill in the form below There will be two groups of up to 40: one starting at Scorrier House, the other at BOOKING FORM Trevince. If you wish to be with particular people, please indicate when booking and I will try to accommodate you. When confirmations are sent out, you will be notified of Scorrier House and Trevince your group and starting place. 10.30am: Meet at Scorrier House, Redruth TR6 5AU. Self-drive visit on Wednesday 1st May 2019 Originally built as an office in 1780 by mining tycoon, John Williams, the seventh generation of the family to occupy the house, Caroline and Richard Williams, are kindly allowing us to visit the gardens that were planted later. The great Victorian Full name(s) ................................................................................................. Title .......................... nurseryman, botanist and plant collector, William Lobb was employed here as a boy. There is a more formal herbaceous border and conservatory near the house, and a Address .............................................................................................................................................. vegetable garden in the walled garden. Spring is one of the best times to visit as the bluebells, camellias and rhododendrons should be in bloom. ............................................................................................................................................................. Dogs on leads. Partial disabled access. Directions: Take the Scorrier exit from the A30 on the B3298. At the first roundabout, Postcode ................................................................................. exit St Day and Scorrier is a few hundred yards on the right. 2.30pm: Meet at Trevince, Gwennap, Redruth TR16 6BA. Telephone no ......................................................................... Newly open to the public, Richard and Trish Stone are restoring the grounds of their country house, which include a south-facing garden and parkland covering more than Mobile no ............................................................................... 25 acres. There is a one-acre walled garden, an ornamental woodland walk, an orchard and a pinetum with a collection of vulnerable and endangered conifers. Bluebells and Email address ........................................................................ a flowering davidia are highlights in May. Current projects include the restoration of a brick summerhouse in the Pond Garden and citrus cultivation in the glasshouses. Please reserve the following place(s): Dogs on leads. Partial disabled access. .....................@ £17 CGS Member £ ................................................. Directions: Come off the exit for the A3047 (Helston) and B3298 (Scorrier). Start towards Redruth, turn left just before the Crossroad House Care Home and the Caravan and Motorhome sale room, and pass under a railway bridge. At the .....................@ £22 Non CGS Member £ ................................................. crossroads, go straight ahead and follow the B3298 for 3½m through Carharrack and down almost to the A393 Redruth-Falmouth road. Ten metres before that junction, Cheque enclosed payable to the Total £ ............................................. turn left for Gwennap. After ¼m the road branches. Go left across the weak bridge and Cornwall Garden Society straight ahead through the gateway with large granite gateposts. Lunch suggestions: Pub opposite Scorrier, The Fox and Hounds. Closing date – when full or Wednesday 17th April 2019 Cost, including refreshments in the morning and afternoon Please note that in the event of cancellation, after confirmations have been sent out, CGS Members £17 Non CGS Members £22 unless we can fill your place from the waiting list, you will be charged full price. Travel Insurance Please note that the Cornwall Garden Society does not carry travel insurance for Please detach this section and send the completed booking form with a cheque members, and cannot accept liability for personal injury and consequential loss and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: sustained during the course of an outing. YOUR REMINDER I have booked……places for Wednesday 1st May 2019. No tickets but Caroline Hooper, Pendavy, St Breward, Bodmin PL30 4PF confirmation, directions, groups and further info will be sent out after the closing date, PLEASE NOTE that separate cheques and separate return envelopes are required for which is Wednesday 17th April 2019. To reserve places, please fill in the form on the each outing and NOT one cheque and envelope for several. next page. Your contact for this event is Caroline Hooper. Going with friends? Book together or you may be in different groups! !.