Situated 2 miles northeast of the town of Mevagissey are the Lost Gardens of Heligan. From around 1750 until the early 1900’s, the Tremayne family created a series of gardens around their house near Mevagissey in Cornwall.

After the First World War, the estate fell on harder times and the gardens were largely abandoned and the house sold off separately from the gardens. In the 1990’s Tim Smit saw the gardens and decided to restore them. Restoration work began and over a period of time the gardens have been restored to something like the former splendour and are now, deservedly, one of the most popular gardens in the United Kingdom.

As well as formal gardens and a walled vegetable garden in the north of the gardens, the south, west and east parts slope steeply down in a series of valleys and have a valley known as The Lost Valley with a series of lakes fed by a stream, along which camellias, rhododendrons, mature specimen trees and tree ferns create a fascinating walk through a jungle like environment.

In the walled garden there is Europe’s only remaining pineapple pit. Today the Lost Gardens of Heligan are a major tourist attraction and have brought a great deal of employment and revenue into the district.

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