
Antony
Torpoint, Cornwall
The house was built in 1719 with Humphry Repton commissioned to redesign the landscape in 1792. The formal gardens to the north of the house were built c1900 for Sir Reginald Pole-Carew….

Barbara Hepworth
St Ives, Cornwall
Little has changed since the day Barbara Hepworth died in 1975; her studio is crammed with half-finished sculptures while the garden is filled with bronzes, mostly in the positions Hepworth placed them.

Caerhays Castle
St. Austell, Cornwall
The present castle was designed by John Nash and built between 1807 and 1810 for John Bettesworth-Trevanion. Forced to sell Caerhays because of rising debts, Bettesworth-Trevanion sold the estate to Michael Williams in 1854.

Cotehele
Saltash, Cornwall
The bones of the fifteenth century garden laid out by Sir Richard and Piers Edgcumbe can still be made out today.

Eden Project
St. Austell, Cornwall
Five kilometres from St Austell is the Eden Project, the brain child of Tim Smit. There are two linked Biomes deep in the Bodelva Pit, the temperate house and tropical Biome.

Enys
Penryn, Cornwall
The Tudor House is surrounded by a garden which was originally laid out at the end of the seventeenth century and updated in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Glendurgan
Falmouth, Cornwall
The Quaker Fox family bought several gardens near the town of Falmouth in the nineteenth century. Alfred Fox bought Glendurgan in 1820s and established walks down the valley to the hamlet of Durgan and built the ponds and planted the cherry and pear orchards.

Godolphin
Helston, Cornwall
By 1535 Godolphin House had been built although little is known about the garden until 1690 when a letter describing the house and garden was sent to John Evelyn.

Japanese Garden
Newquay, Cornwall
A place of serenity and peace, the garden was begun in 1991 by Robert and Stella Hore. It is filled with azaleas, acers, grasses and bamboos and has a Zen Garden and Teahouse.

Lanhydrock
Bodmin, Cornwall
The first surviving survey of the land at Lanhydrock was carried out in 1695 and shows a series of compartments to the east, north and north-west of the house. Further money was spent on the garden in eighteenth century and again at the end of the nineteenth century.

Lost Gardens of Heligan
St. Austell, Cornwall
A chance discovery in 1990s led to the restoration of the Victorian gardens and surrounding pleasure grounds and sub-tropical jungle valley garden. Originally created in seventeenth century, the gardens fell into disrepair during the two World Wars.

Mount Edgcumbe
Torpoint, Cornwall
Mount Edgcumbe was built in 1547 but was largely destroyed by bombs during the Second World War. The garden nearest the house includes the Earl’s Garden, summerhouses, Shell Seat and knot garden and is only accessible by ticket, while the lower garden is free and very different.

Pencarrow
Bodmin, Cornwall
Home to the Molesworth St Aubyn family, Pencarrow House was built in 1760s. The gardens were created in nineteenth century and include specimen trees, shrubs and conifers….

Penjerrick
Falmouth, Cornwall
The garden was developed in the early nineteenth century by Robert Were Fox and his children.

Trebah
Falmouth, Cornwall
Charles Fox, another member of the Fox Quaker family, created Trebah between 1828 and 1878. Fox filled the garden with camellias, rhododendrons, hydrangeas, Chusan palms, gunnera and bamboo.

Trellisick
Truro, Cornwall
A plantsman’s garden, the mid-eighteenth century park was developed by Ida and Ronald Copeland in the twentieth century….

Trengwainton
Penzance, Cornwall
A plant spotter’s garden, Trengwainton is noted for its collection of exotic trees and shrubs. The splendid walled garden is divided into different enclosures….