 | Over 200 acres of superb working Victorian gardens and pleasure grounds together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens. Summerhouses, lawns, lakes and ponds, huge productive gardens and fruithouses, and 22-acre subtropical jungle, are just some of the delights of this “Sleeping Beauty”. Heligan Home Farm and pioneering Horsemoor Hide invite visitors to witness the outer estate being brought back into “good heart”...
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The Jungle
Created as a horticultural playground
for experimenting with the new passion for subtropical plants that swept
the country one hundred and fifty years ago, this twenty two acre steep-sided
valley garden is home to some of the lushest vegetation in the country. Here you will find a
series of four ponds, the largest collection of tree ferns in Europe,
palms, thickets of bamboo and numerous exotic trees and shrubs. The boardwalk that meanders through this magnificent valley will transport
you on a journey far from our temperate shores.
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The Lost Valley
With its history of charcoal burning and Georgian rides,
its water meadows and restored lakes and ponds, The Lost Valley was only
recently opened to the public. Set within acres of ancient Cornish woodland,
The Lost Valley is rich in native flora and fauna. Along the rides and
beneath the many species of mature trees, wild flowers and ferns abound.
The lakes and ponds are once again home to several species of fish and,
skimming the surface of the water, magnificent dragonflies and damselflies
hunt their prey on the wing. For all those with
a spirit of adventure this is a unique opportunity to roam through a wild
and beautiful landscape.
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The Pleasure Grounds
A garden for all seasons, the Northern Garden comprises
over thirty acres of Pleasure Grounds, and can best be described as a
series of gardens within a garden, each with its own distinctive character;
the Italian Garden, New Zealand, Crystal Grotto and wishing well, Northern
Summerhouse Garden, Fern Ravine, Sundial Garden and Flora's Green (surrounded
by a magnificent collection of 'Hooker' Rhododendrons, Camellias and Magnolias). The miles of rides and
walks within the Northern Gardens should be thoroughly explored -
they hold many other secrets: Bee boles, an ancient 'Mount', the Dipping
Pond and a whole host of rare and beautiful shrubs and trees.
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The Productive Gardens In previous centuries the Productive Gardens were
called upon to supply the 'Big House' with all of its day-to-day
requirements of fruits, vegetables, herbs, ornamental plants and
cut flowers. Heligan is once again fully productive, growing over
three hundred varieties of fruits and vegetables, plus huge quantities
of Victorian annual flowers. Included within the Productive Gardens
are a whole series of walled gardens, within which you will find
many fruit houses, frames and pits, each designed to grow specific
exotic fruits such as grapes, peaches, citrus, melons, cucumbers
and pineapples.
Here also is a wonderful collection of working buildings: bothies,
a potting shed, a fruit store, tool sheds and a dark store. The
walled gardens, together with the two-acre kitchen garden and the
many acres of orchards have combined to make Heligan world famous
as a 'living museum' of nineteenth century horticulture.
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