{"id":125845,"date":"2022-04-17T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cornwalls-sleeping-beauty-the-tale-of-heligans-lost-gardens\/"},"modified":"2022-04-17T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T14:02:05","slug":"cornwalls-sleeping-beauty-the-tale-of-heligans-lost-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cornwalls-sleeping-beauty-the-tale-of-heligans-lost-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall\u2019s sleeping beauty: the tale of Heligan\u2019s lost gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s 30 years since these magnificent gardens were opened to the public for the first time. Here is the remarkable story of how they were discoveredThe story of the rediscovery of the Lost Gardens of Heligan just over 30 years ago has all the ingredients and romance of a modern-day Sleeping Beauty: a brave prince battles through impenetrable thorns to awaken a beautiful princess who has fallen asleep for nearly 80 years. He rouses her with a kiss and they live happily ever after.The princess \u2013 Heligan \u2013 was once one of Cornwall\u2019s finest estates, whose exotic gardens had been \u201clost\u201d in 1914 when the estate\u2019s workforce of gardeners marched off to war \u2013 many never returning. The prince was Dutch-born archaeologist and musician Sir Tim Smit who would later found the Eden Project. But it was an unlikely set of events that led to Tim\u2019s role in reawakening Heligan\u2019s famous gardens, packed with magnificent plant finds from the furthest corners of the globe and, in its heyday, renowned as a feat of Victorian plantsmanship and engineering. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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