Trewithen

Trewithen An historic private estate in Cornwall boasting one of the loveliest gardens in England. Page run by Head Gardener Gary Long.

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Amazing how resilient nature is. First 2 photos of the South lawn today after a few days of rain and the 3rd photo less ...
04/09/2026

Amazing how resilient nature is. First 2 photos of the South lawn today after a few days of rain and the 3rd photo less than a month ago!

Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Society Da Bara in the Gardens

Morning with me on are the “stop you in your tracks” fruit of Rehderodendron macrocarpum. This is an exceptional year ...
04/09/2026

Morning with me on are the “stop you in your tracks” fruit of Rehderodendron macrocarpum. This is an exceptional year for the amount of fruit and therefore seed it has produced.
The name Rehderodendron translates into:
Rehder named after Alfred Rehder a botanical taxonomist

dendron: A Greek word meaning “tree”

macrocarpum translated from Ancient Greek with macro meaning large

carpum meaning fruit…… large fruit.

“Rehder’s large-fruited tree”… simple.
Botanical/scientific names are so much earlier than the complicated “common names”!

Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Society Da Bara in the Gardens

Another fine random mix of plants for Em 🌻 weekly plant ident. Also Emily has gained a distinction for RHS level 2 certi...
03/09/2026

Another fine random mix of plants for Em 🌻 weekly plant ident. Also Emily has gained a distinction for RHS level 2 certificate in the principles of plant growth and development, a distinction in RHS level 2 certificate in practical horticulture AND distinction for RHS level 2 certificate in the principles and practices of horticulture! Studying here and at Duchy college Rosewarne 🥳🥳🥳 well done Emily are proud of you.

Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Society Da Bara in the Gardens Duchy College, Cornwall

Morning with me on is the stunning Schima wallichi var. khasiana one of our “Champion trees” (height of 20m/65 ish fe...
03/09/2026

Morning with me on is the stunning Schima wallichi var. khasiana one of our “Champion trees” (height of 20m/65 ish feet). In the Theaceae so related to Camellia. Lush dark green, glossy, evergreen leaves which gives off “tropical foliage” vibes. Large, creamy white, Camellia like sweetly scented “fried egg” like flowers. Unusual in the fact that branches have this years beautiful flowers with last years seed pods and occasionally even the previous years pods all at the same time! (Take a close look at photo 4).

Easily one of my favourite early autumn, creamy-white-scented, fried egg-like flowering, with last years seed pods, tropical foliage, evergreen trees…..

Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Society Da Bara in the Gardens RHS RCM Group

Morning with me on are Cyclamen and the start of autumn. Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Socie...
02/09/2026

Morning with me on are Cyclamen and the start of autumn.

Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Society Da Bara in the Gardens

01/09/2026

Hornets stripping the bark on our Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ on the south lawn. They look to be stripping the bark as building materials and drinking/feeding on the now exposed sap! Plus causing some damage!



Morning, with me on is the first day of autumn with a surprise we didn’t want! The large, very old Fig tree in the wal...
01/09/2026

Morning, with me on is the first day of autumn with a surprise we didn’t want! The large, very old Fig tree in the walled garden has succumbed to the recent wind! I haven’t got a planting date for it but there was a redesign with historic planting, the Wisteria being one of them, back in 1914. “Every cloud and all that” it didn’t cause any structural damage to the walls or features plus it has plenty of young shoots we can nurture for the future.

Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Society Da Bara in the Gardens

Morning with me on is Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Blaumeise’ (in the Teller Series) showing off its autumn glory while stil...
28/08/2026

Morning with me on is Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Blaumeise’ (in the Teller Series) showing off its autumn glory while still displaying its late summer flowers. Love it.

(Ps. This is for my avid Hydrangea fans, you know who you are ….?)

Do you have naturally blue or naturally pink Hydrangea?

Trewithen The Great Gardens of Cornwall Cornwall Garden Society Da Bara in the Gardens

Any of you Hedychium experts out there know what this one is? It’s a lot bigger and blousier than others we have? Ben ...
27/08/2026

Any of you Hedychium experts out there know what this one is? It’s a lot bigger and blousier than others we have? Ben Probert

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Grampound Road
Truro
TR24DD

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Monday 10am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 4:30pm
Thursday 10am - 4:30pm
Friday 10am - 4:30pm
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