Gardens of Cornwall

By Katherine Lambert Photographs by Alex Ramsay

Online price: £16.99

Hardback, 136 pages
Published: 1st March 2012

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Cornish gardens have it all: dramatic natural settings in coast or combe, a wet and mild climate yielding exotic and extravagant plant growth, an indefinable quality of foreignness. Antony has a magnificent early eighteenth-century house in an equally fine natural setting, Glendurgan is the repository of a plant-collecting dynasty who have lived there since the 1820s, while the beautifully restored Heligan retains all the charm of its Victorian heyday. Caerhays boasts an unrivalled collection of camellias, rhododendrons and magnolias. Contemporary gardens like the vertiginous jungle encasing Lamorran House, Barbara Hepworth's sculpture garden and the ambitious landscape taking shape at Tremenheere, not to mention the world-famous Eden Project, are proof positive that Cornish gardens continue to be both generic and unique. Above all, as backdrop to these spectacular places, there is the sea.

A great starting point to the county's horticultural splendour.

- Independent on Sunday

An intriguing tour of Cornwall's gardens, with Alex Ramsay's superb photographs revealing the gardens in all their splendour.

- Western Morning News

It is safe to assume that Katherine's words and Alex's photos will encourage you to soon start your journey around Cornwall's garden treasures.

- Cornwall Life

A Good Read. Well-written travelogue featuring 23 gardens, large and small.

- Oxford Times

Gardens of Cornwall is packed with stunning photographs revealing the gardens at their very best and with informative passages regarding the creators, past and present, of these beautiful gardens and estates, we are sorely tempted to take our own journey around these treasures...buy the book, you will be inspired!

- St Ives Times & Echo

An armchair tour of some of the great Cornish gardens and historic estates.

- BBC Gardens Illustrated

Many of Cornwall's most impressive gardens are on the coast. This beautifully shot book chronicles the best, including Tresco, Trebah, St Michael's Mount, and Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture Garden in St Ives.

- Coast

This book is as luscious and beautiful as the gardens it portrays.

- West Briton

Publication Details:

Binding: Hardback, 136 pages
ISBN: 9780711231252
Format: 267mm x 250mm
100 colour photographs

BIC Code: WMB, WTM
BISAC Code: GAR019000
Imprint: Frances Lincoln

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