There are a great number of gardens in Cornwall which are open to the public either permanently or occasionally. Some gardens within 40 miles:
Lamellen – Guests staying in our properties are invited to visit Lamellen gardens if they wish. The gardens are some 20 acres and have a well-known collection of rhododendrons, magnolias, camellias and trees of many species. Like most Cornish gardens, they are at their best in the early Spring. Please park at the bottom of the drive by Lamellen Lodge and keep your distance from the main house – walking in the gardens is at your own risk; wellies are advisable and tracks are usually mown but beware brambles and holes. Please keep dogs on leads
Pencarrow – (5 miles between Wadebridge and Bodmin) House and gardens open and Café.
Lanhydrock – (about 10 miles –south side of Bodmin on Lostwithiel road) Grade 1 Elizabethan house -National Trust– House and gardens open March to November. Gardens are noted for magnolias but there is a wide variety of flowering trees and shrubs. Restaurant.
Trewithen: Near Probus on the St. Austell to Truro road. Well known garden with magnificent magnolias rhododendrons camellias and many other exciting plants. Originally planted by George Johnston. Has a good nursery selling their own reared plants – good value! Also restaurant. The house is open some days as well.
Burncoose Nuseries and Gardens: (About 35 miles between Falmouth and Redruth) A big nursery garden business run by Charles Williams whose family own Caerhays Castle. Will dispatch plants worldwide –see below. Open all year round. Café
Caerhays Castle (Near Gorran about 10 miles south of St Austell 35 miles in all if you get it right first time!) Probably the premier garden in Cornwall where J.C. Williams reared and planted so many of the original plants and seed sent back by Forrest, Kingdom Ward and other plant hunters. The ‘Williamsii camellias’ were bred by ‘J.C.’ Julian Williams now lives here. Open March to May- Mon to Fri -11 to4 pm
Tregrehan: Near St Austell on the Lostwithiel road about 2 miles out. The gardens are never crowded and are mature containing some of the finest trees in Cornwall. The gardens are known for the Camellias bred by Miss Carlyon. It is now owned and run by her nephew, Tom Hudson, who is a plant collector and has made several plant collecting expeditions to Asia. He has introduced many new and exciting plantings and is expanding this unique garden. Plants for sale
Heligan –The so-called ‘Lost Gardens’ (about 35 miles away) Highly commercialised. Open all year.