The restored Head Gardeners Office at the “Lost Gardens of Heligan”, Cornwall. They are “Lost” because the gardens form the estate of a stately home that had become totally overgrown, but were “discovered” in the 1990’s, and are being restored. We walked along woodland tracks to the “jungle garden”, and my wife grumbled that we had paid to walk along a woodland path that we could have done for free closer to home, AND we were walking under trees on a sunny day! But she became a bit more enthusiastic once we were walking along the boardwalks among the banana trees, ferns, palms and bamboo of the “jungle”, with a backdrop of huge flowering rhododendrons. We walked along the “lost valley”, which even I had to agree was just dense woodland, before returning back up the hill to spend a contented couple of hours exploring the formal and vegetable gardens, and restored garden buildings.
