Three unique gardens to blow you away!
This week we start with Lamorran Garden in the beautiful seaside town of St Mawes in Cornwall. This beautiful 4 acre sub tropical garden at Lamorran House is in a stunning position with fantastic views to St Anthony's Headland and the sea. It is a totally unique garden unlike any other in the .British Isles.
The gardens at Lamorran House were started when Robert and Maria-Antoinette Dudley-Cooke acquired the property in 1982. At the time the site was nothing more than an overgrown steep slope falling away to St Mawes. When considering the potential of the site, its location conjured up memories of their travels to the gardens of La Mortella on the Italian island of Ischia, and from hereon their ideas were transformed into reality at Lamorran.
Robert's plan was to create an informal, romantic terraced garden with curving paths and occasional 'reveals' of the sea. A large collection of Rhododendron and evergreen azaleas were brought from their former garden in Surrey, forming the basis for the early plantings. For many years the family would travel down from London every Friday on the train, when Robert and the family would spend the weekend working on the gardens. Drawing inspiration from the spirit of Japanese, Mediterranean, and English gardens, Lamorran House Gardens began to take shape.
The gardens have evolved over the years and include a wonderful collection of Tropical plants which thrive amongst the terraces, pools and small waterfalls.
Today Robert and Maria continue to develop the gardens at Lamorran with the assistance of Head Gardener Jacob Howard-Endean who is always happy to chat with you about the plantings.
