Trelissick Garden

Trelissick Garden is a garden in Cornwall with subtropical vegetation, and Far Eastern. The garden is situated in Feock, a district of Truro, approximately 4 miles north of the town of Falmouth Fal River above and the Carrick Roads. Its area is about 10 hectares. The Cornish name means House of Trelissicks Klanführers.

The Garden

In contrast to the few miles southwest lying Trebah Gardens and Trelissick Glendurgan is not a ravine garden, but has the character of a landscape park. The garden consists of two parts, which are intersected by a narrow road that leads to the car ferry across the Fal. Be connected the two parts of the garden by a small wooden bridge. Thanks to the mild by the Gulf Stream Cornish climate, it is possible to cultivate in Trelissick next to native species, a large number of subtropical and Far Eastern plants all year round in the field. So, in Trelissick, inter alia, Yuccas, handkerchief trees and tree fern and - of course for the southern Cornwall - Rhododendron. In late spring and early summer Trelissick lights in all colors of Rhododendrenblüten. A special piece of jewelry is the Chinese cedar on the central lawn of the garden. The " Parsley Garden", the old house and herb garden at the entrance of the property, is also still in operation and can be visited.

Views from Trelissick

View from Trelissick

Bridge between the two parts of the garden

Chinese cedar

Yucca Blossom

History

The English porcelain factory Antin Ida Copeland inherited Trelissick 1937. Between 1937 and 1955, who converted the original landscape park, so that the garden was given a more subtropical and Far Eastern character. In 1955 the Copeland Trelissick National Trust, which made it accessible to the public and in the following years expanded the planting and altered transferred. It has also been paid to a planting of late-flowering rhododendrons and hydrangeas, to extend the flowering period.

Find out more

Trelissick houses the national collection of British Photinien and Azaras. Also here is the porcelain collection of the Copeland family (" Copeland China Collection "), which can be visited.

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