Cornwall’s Camellia Trail – Through The Eyes Of A Gardening Dynasty
The riot of March colour in some of the country’s most spectacular gardens will be given a personal twist as plantsman and garden designer Charles Fox takes guests of Cornwall’s finest country house hotel on a tour of his ancestors’ famous horticultural creations.
Guests of the Budock Vean on Cornwall’s Helford River will find themselves surrounded by the seasonal blaze of camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias in the hotel’s own sub-tropical gardens.
But in a special collaboration from March 12 – 14 Charles Fox, of Glendurgan, will be giving an insider’s view of the ravine gardens at his own family home and at neighbouring Trebah, along with the private garden of Penjerrick, created respectively by Alfred, Charles and Robert Fox almost two centuries ago.
Charles’s ancestors introduced exotic plants from all over the world as each created their own unique garden – and his personal insight from a modern and historical perspective will be a revelation for garden novices and experts alike.
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