Trelissick Garden

Trelissick Garden is a garden in the ownership of the National Trust and situated in Feock, Cornwall, near Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

The Trust

The garden has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1955 when it was donated by Ida Copeland. Mr and Mrs Copeland planted many of the species that flourish in the mild Cornish air, including the rhododendrons and azaleas which are now such a feature of the garden, hydrangeas, camellias and flowering cherries, and exotics such as the ginkgo and various species of palm. They also ensured that the blossoms they nurtured had a wider, if unknowing audience. Mr Ronald Copeland was chairman and later managing director of his family's business, the Spode china factory, and flowers grown at Trelissick were used as models for those painted on ware produced at the works.

The Copelands' family crest, a horse's head, now decorates the weathervane on the turret of the stable block, a pair to the Gilbert squirrels on the Victorian Gothic water tower, an echo of the family who lived here in the second half of the 19th century (their ancestor, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, was lost at sea in his tiny ship "Squirrel" after discovering Newfoundland).

The garden is noted for its rare shrubs. It offers a large park, woodland walks, views over the estuary of the River Fal and Falmouth.

pecial plants

* Trelissick Garden is the home of the National Plant Collections of photinias and azaras.

Views of Trelissick

References

*"Trelissick" in "Feock with Devoran and Carnon Down in the 19th Century" (Part 2) by the Feock Local History Group (1973) Republished 2006 (pages 39–50)
* National Trust Guide October 1996

External links

* [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-trelissickgarden/ Trelissick Garden information at the National Trust]
* [http://www.touruk.co.uk/gardens/gardenscorn_trelissick.htm Trelissick Garden history]