Went to the Lost Gardens of Heligan at the weekend, see www.heligan.com for further details. It was great to walk around there, hearing the birds and the sound of running water. This was really an occasion where we were lucky. The weather was great and there were less people around then you would expect. This is where the photos on this page come from.
I think that the reason that the gardens appealed to me and my lover so much, is that it did seem so much like we had travelled into a hidden wilderness, which is the basic back-story of Heligan. It is also the theme of so many stories, the discovery of the hidden world or landscape.
This is an aspect of Cornwall, which I tend to forget. It is easier to get to or to see spaces of greenery or woodland, then it is in London or Derby for example.
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