Saint Austell

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Lost Gardens of Heligan

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty

On a palatial estate in Cornwall, a massive and unique garden has been restored to its original beauty after 75 years of languishing unloved. Since the late 1500s, The Lost Gardens of Heligan... »

Extraordinary Flora, Outsider Art, Horticultural Marvels | Edited by serflac, atimian and others

The Eden Project: The World’s Largest Greenhouse

Over one million types of plants in southwest England

As the millennium approached, the sleepy former mining town of St. Blazey needed a futuristic update. For fifty years, a clay mine on the edge of the English town had slowly been abandoned, until... »

Architectural Oddities, Horticultural Marvels | Edited by atimian and Nicholas Jackson

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