Pine Lodge Gardens & Nursery, Cornwall

Slave Garden

So called because of the figure which forms the centrepiece of the garden holding a sundial above his head.  It is immediately surrounded by coloured grasses.

This garden was designed as a more formal garden, but Shirley just could not bring herself to have straight lines so compromised with straight paths but rounded edges to the borders. The scheme was to incorporate all the colours of the spectrum hence a yellow and blue border, a red and orange border, and the soft pinks and mauves in the remaining border.

 

 

The  three borders  flower from June until the frosts.The rest of the garden, incorporating fourteen magnolias, many camellias and rhododendrons, and several other shrubs and bulbs, are Spring flowering.

The pathways  have only relatively recently been relaid using granite paviours which once formed the platform of a local railway station. The surrounding fir trees were all seedlings found in the garden and have made a more interesting backcloth than a conventionally planted leylandii hedge.