🌴Trebah Garden. A Sub-Tropical Paradise!🌴Join me on a tour of these stunning gardens with a beach!⛱️

It has been a little while since I posted, summer is one of the busiest and most tiring times for me so I've had a little rest and been to visit some lovely gardens in Cornwall. It's the first time I have been there so everything was new.

It was a very hot day 30 degrees celcius, so I dressed as cool as I could and with my favourite hat to keep the sun off my head! Thankfully the trees and foliage helped to keep things a bit cooler. A paddle in the beautiful blue sea also helped!

The gardens at Trebah blew me away, I've never seen such a impeccably maintained garden that looks as though it has "just happened", the planting had been done over many generations, namely the tree ferns and other trees, with the more colourful schemes more recently. Hat's off to the gardeners who keep it looking so amazing!

My favourite part was the Gunnera Walk, they towered high above me, probably twice my height! The sun shining through the leaves created a luminous green light ambience, an amazing experience.

Out of all the places I've visited, this surely is one of the best gardens I've been to, and if you get the chance then make sure you do too, you won't regret it.

More content coming soon, thanks for sticking with me!

Footage is courtesy of Finding Damo.

Happy Gardening,

Justin

https://www.trebahgarden.co.uk/

History of Trebah

In 1831 Trebah was acquired by the Fox family who built Glendurgan Garden. Trebah was first laid out as a pleasure garden by Charles Fox, a Quaker polymath of enormous creative energy who paid meticulous attention to the exact positioning of every tree. His son-in-law, Edmund Backhouse, M.P. for Darlington, took the work further.

The Hexts

In 1907 Trebah was bought by Charles Hawkins Hext and inherited on his death in 1917 by his wife, Alice, who died in 1939. From 1939 to 1981 the garden fell into decline, since the substantial Trebah Estate was sold off in small packages, of which the house and garden was one.
Second World War and after

During the Second World War, Trebah was used for military purposes and the assault on Omaha Beach in Normandy was launched from Polgwidden Beach, at the foot of Trebah Garden.
Inscription on Memorial Slab at the foot of Trebah Garden: "To the officers and men of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division, who embarked from Trebah in June 1944 for the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach. We will remember them."

One of the subsequent owners was Donald Healey, the motor car designer, who removed some of the concrete military structures and provided a boathouse on the beach.
Development of the garden by the Hibberts

In 1981, on their 64th birthday,[citation needed] Tony Hibbert and Eira Hibbert bought Trebah as their retirement home. They were persuaded to give up the first three years of retirement to restore the garden.

Indeed, when Major Hibbert agreed to three years, little did he know it would become a quarter century. The decision, he eventually wrote, "has given us the happiest twenty-four years of our lives and had we not taken up the challenge we'd have been dead long ago of gin poisoning and boredom."[1]

The Trust

The garden was opened to the public in 1987 and by 1989 visitor numbers had reached 36,000. The Hibbert family then gave the house, garden and cottages to the Trebah Garden Trust, a registered charity, to ensure that the garden could be preserved for future generations.

In 2000 visitor numbers had exceeded 105,000 and a £1.94 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Objective One allowed Trebah to build the new 'Hibbert Centre', to rebuild Alice Hext's seat, restore the nursery and carry out major landscaping and garden improvements.