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Garden Name: Trebah
Last Modified: 12/01/2011
Garden ID: 0008

pic: 0008x_trebahGarden.jpg

Owner: Trebah Garden Trust
Address:
Mawnan Smith
Falmouth

Postcode: TR11 5JZ
County: Cornwall

tel: 01326-252200
fax: 01326-250781
website: www.trebah-garden.co.uk
email: mail {at} trebah-garden.co.uk

Features: 
Cornwall Tourist Board award of "Best Visitor Attraction in Cornwall 2002"
RHS Recommended Garden

English Heritage Grade:
II

Opening Times:
Every day of the year; 10.30am - 4.30pm (4pm last admission).

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
March - June

To see: 


National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: Discounted group entry for 12+ visitors

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: Group Booking form available on request - mail@trebah-garden.co.uk
Free introductory talk available for groups on arrival, guided tours by prior arrangement 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
1st Mar - 31st Oct 2011: Adult £8; Child £2.50; Over 60s £7
1st Nov 2011 - 29th Feb 2012, Adults £4, Over 60s £3.50, Child £1.00
Group entry rate 1 March 2011 - 31 October 2011:
Adults/Seniors £6.50; Child £2.50. With full Guided tour £2 per head extra (guided tours must be booked in advance of visit)
Group entry rate 1 November 2011 - 29 February 2012:
Adult/Seniors £3; Child £1;. With full Guided tour £2 extra; (guided tours must be booked in advance of visit)
Royal Horticultural Society Members Free entry: Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb & March.. 
National Trust Members reduced entry fee: Nov, Dec, Jan & Feb.

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: Yes
Only on Lead: Yes
Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
Many events, check own website


Designer: Charles Fox and Tony Hibbert
Description of Garden:
Trebah is a uniquely beautiful, 26 acre Cornish Ravine garden - the wild and magical result of 160 years of inspired and dedicated creation. A steeply wooded ravine descends 200 feet down to a private secluded beach on the historic Helford River. A stream cascades over waterfalls and meanders through ponds of giant Koi Carp and exotic water plants before winding through two acres of blue and white hydrangeas and spilling onto the beach.

Glades of sub-tropical ferns and palms mingle with a forest of trees and shrubs in ever-changing colour and scents, contained beneath a canopy of century-old rhododendrons and magnolias.


History: 
Trebah was first planted in the 1840's by Charles Fox, a Quaker landowner and inspired gardener. The rarest and most exotic trees and plants were imported from all over the world to create this lovely garden, and Fox ensured that every last sapling was painstakingly placed for maximum effect - even though he knew he would not live to see the garden in its mature splendour. Future owners continued Fox's work until the Second World War, when the house was sold, the estate split up, and the garden lay neglected for the next forty years.

Then in 1980, Trebah was bought by the Hibbert family, who began a massive programme to restore the gardens to their Victorian heyday. Trebah opened to the public in 1987 and three years later the family donated the house and the gardens to the Trebah Garden Trust, a registered charity, to ensure that the garden is preserved for the pleasure of all generations.

Local Inns: 
Shipwrights Arms, Helford
Red Lion, Mawnan Smith
Ferry Boat Inn, Helford Passage

Accomodation: 
Budock Vean Hotel

Restaurants: 
Guiseppe's, The Square, Mawnan Smith

Village/Town/Sightseeing: