The Roseland Volunteer Fundraising Group warmly invite you to join them at Lamorran Gardens Open Day on Sunday 15th June.
With the kind permission of Mr & Mrs Dudley-Cooke once again, our volunteer Fundraising Group are hosting the Open Day at the stunning riverside Lamorran Gardens near St Mawes on the Roseland peninsula, with all proceeds supporting the work of Cornwall Hospice Care.
The group will be there to give you a warm welcome to Lamorran Gardens and to provide delicious refreshments and snacks and an opportunity to browse their stalls – all raising funds for your local Cornish hospices. The Open Day will run from 11am to 4pm and entrance costs £10 per person, with under 16s going free.
Lamorran Gardens Accessibility
All visitors are very welcome and although the layout of Lamorran Gardens makes much of it unsuitable for wheelchair users, there are areas of the gardens where those visitors with limited mobility can visit and enjoy the beautiful vistas across the river and out to sea.
Well behaved dogs on leads are also welcome.
More About Lamorran Gardens
Lamorran is a subtropical, Italianate inspired garden – a garden of many levels, it is situated on a south facing slope, and is surrounded on three sides by the benign influence of the warming sea. St Anthony’s headland sits across the water, creating a protected inlet to St Mawes and the river beyond.
These unique conditions mean that the garden remains frost free in all but the most serious of winters; the last recorded frost being in 1987. A wide range of plants from all over the world is therefore able to be grown, resulting in something of a plantsperson’s paradise. An extensive, eclectic and unusual range of plants can be found, with particular emphasis on southern hemisphere and sub-tropical flora.
Many features are included to divide the garden into intimate compartments which the visitor can find and explore. There are areas of woodland, a water garden in Japanese style as well as temples and archways in the steeper parts of the garden, and a small bridge on which to lean and look out over the bay exhibiting a distinctly Venetian influence.
The guiding principle behind the garden has been the desire to create tranquility and beauty in harmony with nature. If the visitor finds these qualities present, then the garden has served its purpose.
The gardens were featured in a Gardener’s World special – ‘Gardening on the Edge’, as well as appearing in the top ten of the BBC ‘Nation’s Favourite Gardens’.
For more information, you can view and download a map and guided walk.
To see other upcoming events supporting Cornwall Hospice Care, please visit our website events calendar.
