Wanting to take advantage of the dry and sunny weather we decided to head down to the Helford River and have lunch in the Trebah restaurant before going for a walk at Glendurgan Gardens next door. These subtropical gardens sweep down through three valleys to a sheltered beach which means a fair number of ups…
Tag: Jo’s Walks
Shades of Spring
If you want to see a spring garden at its best then you can do no worse than visiting Cornwall during March, April and May. If the weather allows that is. Cornwall probably has the best spring gardens and Kent the best summer ones, though in recent years Cornish gardens have improved their herbaceous borders…
Flora in the Garden: Part V
My final post about this garden is all about the planting. Even without the artwork this is a garden I am drawn to, though at first I was slightly confused seeing woodland plants and the more exotic southern hemisphere plants existing in the same plot. Remember that this is October as I take you on…
Artwork in the Garden: Part IV- Car Park, Kitchen and Gallery
More installations can be found around the Art Gallery and Kitchen including this wonderful Greek temple by Penny Saunders which sways and shivers in the wind. Another distinctive artwork is ‘Se Bryck’ by Amy Cooper which invites you to take a seat. Though it’s not awfully comfortable. ‘Venus’ by Claire-Stockings-Baker is further up the hill…
Artwork in the Garden: Part III- Tremenheere Wood
At this point we head up to the top of the garden to view several recent installations (well new since our last visit). We are now among Tremenheere Wood and the highest part of the garden. First to spot is ‘Lith’ by Jonathan Michael Ray. “The structure ‘Lith’, built from 300 brick sized blocks of…
Artwork in the Garden: Part II – The Arid Zone
The next part of the garden is the middle section where three paths run parallel to each other and where the favoured microclimate of kindly winter temperatures and shelter from the wind allow exotic and half-hardy plants to flourish. This is the dryer landscape with lots of sculptural forms, textures and colours. There are a…
Artwork in the Garden: Part I – The Woodland Walk
We’ve been here before, but not for a while. Time to seek out the new artwork in the garden and some that I have neglected to record on previous visits. Tremenheere is an unusual Cornish garden – a garden with artworks? Or artworks within a garden? I’ll let you decide. One thing though it is…
A Monday Walk
It’s a month ago that I took a walk along the George V Memorial Garden in Hayle. A hot day so I was looking for somewhere to sit that provided some shade. There are lots of benches along this 1 mile stretch, some in full sun, some under the canopy of trees. And as always,…
The Lanes in June
It’s been a while since I shared a walk with the lovely Jo who has been spreading her wings and regaling us with tales of Rome. Unfortunately I haven’t been anywhere near as far this year and it doesn’t look all that promising for the rest of it either. A bit too late to be…
St Michael’s Mount in Winter
I have taken you to SMM many times before but usually to explore the garden which has to be one of the most unusual in the county if not the country, clinging as it does to the almost vertical cliffs and full of exotic and tender plants. During the winter months the garden is closed…
Cornwall in Colours 