Trelissick Garden

Trelissick Garden
Trelissick Manor
Nearest city	Truro

Trelissick Garden (Cornish: Lowarth Trelesyk is a garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Trelissick Garden lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

Toponymy

Trelissick Garden (Cornish: Lowarth Trelesyk or Garden of Trelesyk). Trelissick, first recorded in 1275, means Leidic's farm)^[1] Trelissick in the parish of St Ewe has the same derivation but Trelissick in St Erth and Trelissick in Sithney have a different one ("Gwledic's farm").^[2]

Location

Trelissick Garden is located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall. It overlooks the estuary known as Carrick Roads.

History

The garden has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1955 when it was donated by Ida Copeland following the death of her son Geoffrey. A stained glass memorial bearing the Copeland Crest remains to this effect in Feock parish church.

Many of the species that flourish in the mild Cornish air, including the rhododendrons and azaleas which are now such a feature of the garden, were planted by the Copelands including hydrangeas, camellias and flowering cherries, and exotics such as the ginkgo and various species of palm. They also ensured that the blossoms they nurtured had a wider, if unknowing audience. Mr Ronald Copeland was chairman and later managing director of his family's business, the Spode china factory, and flowers grown at Trelissick were used as models for those painted on ware produced at the works.

The Copeland family crest, a horse's head, now decorates the weathervane on the turret of the stable block, making a pair with the Gilbert squirrels on the Victorian Gothic water tower, an echo of the family who lived here in the second half of the 19th century (their ancestor, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, was lost at sea in his tiny ship Squirrel after discovering Newfoundland).

The garden is noted for its rare shrubs. It offers a large park, woodland walks, views over the estuary of the River Fal and Falmouth.

Special plants

Trelissick Garden is the home of the National Plant Collections of photinias and azaras.

Views of Trelissick

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  Trelissick view
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  Trelissick view
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  Bridge between the two parts of the garden
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  Chinese cedar
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  Chinese cedar
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  Yucca blossom

References

1. Craig Weatherhill (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype ISBN 978-1-904808-22-0; p. 72)
2. Weatherhill (2009); p. 72

• "Trelissick" in Feock with Devoran and Carnon Down in the 19th Century (Part 2) by the Feock Local History Group (1973) Republished 2006 (pp. 39–50)
• National Trust Guide; October 1996

External links

• Trelissick Garden information at the National Trust
• Trelissick Garden history

Coordinates: 50°13′00.68″N 05°02′00.64″W / 50.2168556°N 5.0335111°W