The Lost Gardens Return

In association with Leap, The Lost Gardens of Heligan have completed their preparations for next week's Hampton Court Flower Show.

As the only Cornish garden exhibiting this year, it was extra important to make sure that Heligan’s display was extra striking, especially because, due to disease control, they are not allowed to exhibit live samples; as Lorna Tremayne, Heligan’s Marketing and Media Manager explains:
“Due to restrictions on plant movement for sites like ours with the fungal disease Phytophthora ramorum, we are unable to take any plant material from our National Collection. This meant that we needed to create a purely interpretative display full of images and interesting anecdotes and facts to tell Heligan’s National Collection story.”
Claire has been working on the display that tells the story of their National Collection of Camellias and Rhododendrons for three weeks and has just today gone to check the final product at Parc Signs. It will take pride of place in the Plant Heritage Marquee and is made up of over 60 panels of images and information.
It’s been over ten years since Heligan last exhibited at Hampton Court and Leap are really excited to be involved with their return.

(Left to Right) Lorna, Marketing and Media Manager from Heligan, Claire from Leap and Sarah from Heligan.