Glendurgan Garden

Glendurgan Garden is a garden with subtropical vegetation in Cornwall. The park lies at the mouth of the Helford River about 5 miles southwest of the town of Falmouth. Its area is depending on conversion 11 to 13 hectares ( 30 acres). The Cornish name means Durgantal of the garden.

The Garden

Glendurgan as the immediately adjacent Trebah a Cornish ravine garden, that is, it lies between steep hills in a small incision that runs down to the banks of the Helford River down. The gorge is crossed by a small stream which forms a pond just before the beach. Along the canyon walls to pull the parkways, between which proliferates lush vegetation. Thanks to the mild by the Gulf Stream Cornish climate, it is possible to cultivate in Glendurgan next to native species, a large number of subtropical plants all year round in the field. So, in Glendurgan among other bamboo, yuccas, hemp palm trees, agaves and tree ferns and - of course for the southern Cornwall - Rhododendron. In May and June Glendurgan lights like many other Cornish gardens in all colors of Rhododendrenblüten. Characteristic of Glendurgan is the maze of laurel hedges from the year 1833 in the middle of the garden.

Views of Glendurgan

Glendurgan: View

Glendurgan: maze

Glendurgan: maze

Hemp palm trees in Glendurgan

Bamboo jungle in Glendurgan

Agavenknospen in Glendurgan in May 2004, about 8 m high

Agavenknospen in Glendurgan in May 2004, about 8 m high

History

The English shipowner Alfred Fox, a Quaker who left a few years later also create Trebah, Glendurgan acquired in 1820. He had built the house until 1830, the garden with its winding paths emerged. The maze was created in 1833. Unlike Trebah with its eventful history Glendurgan remained in the possession of the Fox family that used the garden in the following 130 years, and advanced. In 1962, Cuthbert and Philip Fox Glendurgan transferred to the National Trust and made the garden so the public.