Cornwall is famous for its sheltered woodland gardens. They are at their best in the spring with giant rhododendrons in valleys running down to the sea: Trebah, Glendurgan, Trewithen and Trevarno.
Trebah Garden
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<p>One of Cornwall's most splendid woodland gardens. The nineteenth century house, painted white, looks onto a sub-tropical woodland garden in a ravine. There is a transition to a private beach from which the 29th US Infantry embarked for Normandy in 1944. The garden was planted by Charles Fox in 1831 and has been compared to a Himalayan valley - a description which it deserves more than any other place in England. We can be sure that <a href="https://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/gertrude_jekyll">John Claudius Loudon</a> would have appreciated the design as an example of the <a href="https://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/historic_design_styles/picturesqu.....
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Glendurgan Garden
Glendurgan Garden »
<p>A great Cornish woodland garden in a deep valley, with <a href="https://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/historic_design_styles/picturesque_gardenesque_garden_design_style">gardenesque</a> collections of tree ferns, rhododendrons and camelias. In the <a href="https://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/historic_design_styles/landscape_garden_design_style">landscape style</a> it has a transition from a beautiful foreground through a picturesque middleground to a sublime background: the sea. Glendurgan has a most curious <a href="https://www.gardenvisit.com/garden_glossary">maze</a>, planted in 1833 by Alfred Fox.</p>
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Trewithen Garden
Trewithen Garden »
An eighteenth century house (1723) with a walled garden and twentieth century woodland garden made by the renowned horticulturalist George Johnstone. The collection of rhododendrons and magnolias is famous. The ceanothus 'Trewithen Blue' and 'Trewithin Orange' were bred here. There is a large lawn and a walled garden.
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Trevarno Estate and Gardens
Trevarno Estate and Gardens »
A Victorian garden with lake, lawns, Sunken Italian Garden, shrubberies, Serpentine Yew Tunnel, boat house, bluebell valley, conservatory and walled garden. The National Museum of Gardening is at Trevarno. The museum has what is believed to be the UK's largest collection of garden tools and memorabilia.
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