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Heligan Survivors
| Author: Philip McMillan Browse (ed.) |
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| ISBN: 9780906720530 |
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Initially inaccessible and swamped by overgrowth when the Lost Gardens were rediscovered in 1990, much of Heligan’s valuable woody plantstock was subsequently identified and protected during the course of clearance by Philip McMillan Browse, then Cornwall County Council Horticultural Advisor (and former Director of RHS Wisley).
Philip later became Heligan’s first Horticultural Director, and encouraged his team to research into the origins of the veteran specimens in their care. Some individuals are rare indeed – and vulnerable in their old age. Some have grown to extraordinary height during their battle for light during the era of dereliction. Others represent possibly the very earliest introductions to Britain. All have stories to tell, and contribute to the unique character and atmosphere of the Gardens. We want to ensure everyone can fully appreciate and enjoy them now, before their inevitable demise.
The preparation of this volume has been a collective project by the Heligan staff. It introduces four generations of the Tremaynes, who created and developed the Gardens up until the First World War. Against a backdrop of avid, world-wide plant collecting, it features 28 of the trees and woody plants that the family secured for this captivating place during that period – exotics, conifers, climbers, ornamental and productive trees.
It is richly illustrated with photographs, all taken at Heligan, either then or now, which provide a lasting record celebrating Heligan’s Survivors.
Second- and third-generation plantstock is currently being propagated on site from the original heritage plants, to provide replacements for the Gardens in due course – and to enable others to acquire a small piece of Heligan history to take home and grow on, into their own future.
Philip McMillan Browse is a horticultural consultant, and has been Director of the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation in California and Director of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden at Wisley. He was the first Horticultural Director of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, and is one of the originators of the Eden Project. His publications include Palms for Cooler Climates (1993); Plant Propagation (1979), and Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs (Alison Hodge, 2005). He is co-author of The Heligan Vegetable Bible (2000), and General Editor of Gardening on the Edge: Drawing on the Cornwall Experience (Alison Hodge, 2004).
Note: Heligan Survivors is available only from this website and from The Lost Gardens of Heligan.
1st edition
Paperback
64 pages
138 photographs, 1 map
297 x 210 mm
01.03.07
Foreword – John Willis
The Tremaynes and the Gardens at Heligan – Philip McMillan Browse
The Nurserymen and the Plant Collectors – Philip McMillan Browse
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, FRS – Philip McMillan Browse
Actinidia chinensis – Philip McMillan Browse
Araucaria araucana – Mike Friend
Camellias at Heligan – Bee Robson
Camellia reticulata ‘Captain Rawes’ – Agnese Fornaris
Cornus capitata – Philip McMillan Browse
Crinodendron hookerianum – Philip McMillan Browse
Davidia involucrata – Philip McMillan Browse
Dicksonia antarctica – Cindy Clench
Drimys winteri – Malcolm Goodwin
Eucryphia cordifolia – Trish Hogg
Ginkgo biloba – Lorna Tremayne
Hoheria sexstylosa – Stephen Phillips
Magnolia campbellii – Candy Smit
Magnolia delavayi – Carol Sherwood
Magnolia grandiflora ‘Exmouth’ – Frances Scholar
Podocarpus totara – Merriel Gardiner
Pseudotsuga menziesii – Jayne Delacoe
Pyrus ‘Swan’s Egg’ – Sylvia Travers
Rhododendron arboreum – Bee Robson
Rhododendron falconeri – Bee Robson
Rhododendron niveum – Bee Robson
Sequoiadendron giganteum – Michelle Griffiths
Sorbus devoniensis – Peter Stafford
Stauntonia hexaphylla – Mary Crowle
Trachycarpus fortunei – Philip McMillan Browse
Chaenomeles cathayensis – Philip McMillan Browse
Ficus carica ‘Brown Turkey’ – Sylvia Travers
Plagianthus betulinus – Philip McMillan Browse
Acknowledgements
Plant Location Map
‘provides an insight into Heligan's intriguing horticultural past’ (Western Morning News, 08.03.07)
‘richly illustrated’ (Cornwall Life, June/July 2007)
‘There are sixty two pages of excellent information .... The excellent glossy production includes many plant photographs accompanying the text to give the book a wide appeal.’ (Old Cornwall, vol. 13, no. 9, 2007) |
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