Wednesday 10 August 2011

Trengwainton Gardens

Day two of the good weather (although not quite as sunny as yesterday), we were off to Trengwainton Gardens near Penzance and we took the dogs with us.  After sitting in traffic on the A30 we decided to veer off and take a back route to Penzance and avoid the hold-ups.  We parked in the overspill car park as the gardens were already very busy and then made our way down to the entrance.  I had a look at the map provided …

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but Jo had bought a book which meant we could follow the routes from it.  Everywhere was very green!  There were a few hydrangeas in flower … 

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but mostly it was ‘greenery’.  I think we need to come back at rhododendron time next year.  Don’t get me wrong, it was lovely greenery but I was looking forward to seeing some colour.  However we did find some later on.  We followed the track which took us to a little bridge by a pond and then we came out of the trees and saw the house …

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Another little wooded bit with an interesting feature …

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and then we reached the terrace with summerhouses at each end and agapanthus in abundance.

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We took advantage of one of the benches to sit and have our picnic and the photo above was the view we had while we ate.  This was intriguing me …

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so when I’d eaten I went to investigate and found this …

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The arrows told me where different places were from where I was standing – clever!

After lunch we set off again retracing our steps at first then diverting off on a new route which took us over to the main drive …

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and here there was more colour as we reached the bank by the stream …

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We then reached some open grassland where this tree had been planted by The Queen Mum back in 1962.  Unfortunately a tree is a tree where Hamish is concerned and trees are only provided for one reason …

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I loved this little nest hanging in a tree …

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and a lovely little house …

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We now reached the walled gardens which were really pretty with loads of colour …

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Just one more bit to see which was the magnolia area but once again it was just trees in leaf!  Note to self – come back again but in the right season!

We wanted some coffee and cake to end the day and where better to go than Trevaskis Farm for very gooey chocolate cake!  Yummy!

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1 comment:

jordiegirl said...

Looks like you all had a lovely time.