Gwennap, Redruth, TR16 6BJ
Tel: (01209) 860316
Email: info@burncoose.co.uk
Web: www.burncoose.co.uk
Web: www.burncoosehouse.co.uk
Take a garden home with you
The drive from the Lodge at the front entrance to Burncoose House (once the family home of the Williams family and built by them in 1715) is about a quarter of mile long running almost due north to south with the garden going down to an area below the house where there is a pond and boggy area. At no one point does the garden exceed more than a few hundred yards in width. Burncoose House and Nurseries is the oldest part of the Caerhays Estate.
Probably the most important date in the life of Burncoose Gardens came on the night of 18th/19th December 1979. A strong wind was blowing all day on the 18th but we were woken in the early hours to the worst gale ever. We spent the night in darkness listening to the trees crashing down one after another and at first light we went out to a scene of absolute devastation.
The main drive was blocked for nearly a third of its length with over a hundred trees piled one on top of another. It took nearly three months just to open the drive and five years later we cleared the last tree.
Up until 1984 when the Nursery opened at Burncoose, apart from the occasional fetes and open days the garden here was completely private and rarely seen by anyone other than invited guests. Since the late 1950's the 30 acre garden has been very well maintained by the Head Gardener, Mr Arnold Dance.
Much of the charm of Burncoose Gardens is the carpets of bluebells, daffodils, primroses, snowdrops and wild violets which grow in abundance in the late winter and spring, and we have been careful not to spoil this natural effect. We have tried to keep the woodland garden as informal as possible.
Proud winners of a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower show, Burncoose provides a 30 acre woodland garden for visitors to enjoy, with an award-winning nursery attached. The garden is at its best in late winter and early spring, when daffodils, bluebells, primroses, snowdrops, and other early flowering plants provide a welcome carpet of colour.
Midway between Redruth and Penryn on the A393.
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