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16th April
March to the end of June
Rhododendron (570 species) Camellias, Azaleas.
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Shop and Cafe. Childrens play area. Many Special Event days throughout year - see own website for details
Rare collection of cedars and conifers. Mile long carriage drive, 50 acres of gardens, lakeside walks and extensive Victorian rockery. Dog Trust Attraction of the Year House has fine collection of pictures, furniture, porcelain and antique dolls.
Tredethy Hotel Mount Pleasant, 7 miles from Bodmin
St Maybn Inn Sladesbridge Country Inn Earl of St. Vincent, Egloshayle
St Maybn Sladesbridge Helland Bridge
These gardens are rightly famous for their collection of conifers, numbering over 160 different species and the extraordinary collection of more than 570 different species and hybrids of rhododendron. There are also over 60 different camellias. Many of the specimens in these collections are too tender to grow anywhere in Britain, except in the West Country. Two fine specimens of Chilean podocarps, one extremely rare, are to be found near the lake and the very rare Taxodium distichum 'Nutans', the Pond Cyprus, and the largest Deodar Cedar in the country, in the Italian Gardens and East Lawn respectively.
The house, an impressive Palladian mansion, dates from 1760, but the gardens at Pencarrow were designed and laid out by the radical statesman, Sir William Molesworth, from 1831 during intervals in his parliamentary sessions, until his early death in 1855. He created the Italian Garden, rockery, the lake, the Carriage Drive and began the collection of conifers, claiming at his death that he had planted a specimen of all but ten of the species that could survive in these Isles. Charles Austin, a guest of his, named the araucaria araucana, by saying That would puzzle a monkey! Molesworth's family and descendants, particularly the late 15th Baronet, Lt-Col. Sir Arscott Molesworth-St. Aubyn, have continued the planting and re-planting and extended the collection.