Words by Jilly Easterby Trevince: growing towards the future. Spring colour by the clock tower The owners of a country estate at the heart of Cornwall’s historic mining district, with a lineage that can be traced back to medieval times, are opening their gardens to the public to share how a new kind of horticultural legacy is being created.  As soon as you enter the gateway to Trevince, its deep-rooted sense of history is palpable. The estate’s mature woodland and atmospheric

Words by Dan Warden Once upon a time, and not so long ago, the garden could be defined as one of two things. Either it was given over to jungle, beyond repair and well outside the ability and time constraints of those looking mournfully upon it through the window; or, it became an arena reserved for the green-fingered, with carefully pruned roses, lovingly trimmed honeysuckle and a lawn so sedulously trimmed that to tread upon it required the blessing of those who mowed it.

Encouraging and providing sanctuary for plants and animals alike, in a time of concrete structures.