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Thirty years ago this summer a group of Cornish garden owners and head gardeners got together in Tresco Abbey Gardens on the Isles of Scilly. But they weren’t there just to admire the fabulously ...

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A Cornish garden has been named among the UK’s best places for a winter day out. Trebah Garden, located near Falmouth, was featured in a seasonal round-up by Bloom & Wild, which listed family-friendly ...

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Primroses line the narrow lanes in steep valleys beneath the ploughed and sprayed plateau fields above Veryan Bay. Close to, but out of sight of, the sea, the hilltop church of St Michael Caerhays is ...

A coastal walk leads to the Church of St Just in Roseland Credit: Photo: David Chapman / Alamy Blue skies, sunshine, daffodils, an eclipse – the first weekend of spring and Cornwall had it all. I was ...