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Trehane House, Trehane Barton, near Probus
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How to use a seemingly derelict garden site - at David Trehane's own' garden, at Trehane, on ancestral family land | International Camellia Journal 1976
Other lessons - this time on how to use a seemingly derelict garden site - were
learned at David Trehane's own' garden, at Trehane, on ancestral family land. As Vice
President of the ICS and the leading camellia nurseryman of the U.K., it was no
surprise to find David's garden both lovely and interesting. What makes it unique is
it is from ground to roof-top in a curtain of the heavenly-scented climber Holhoellia.
How the Trehanes manage it on top of their nursery work and their innumerable
extracurricular horticultural duties (among them the thousand details of the
arrangements for the Conference, all of flawless efficiency) none of us could imagine,
as we wandered around not the "labour-saving" garden one would expect of such
busy people, but walks and walls and beds, most of them on sloping terraces, and all
still requiring that slave-driver, the hoe, and filled with such treasures as Scilla
liliohvacinthlls, Fritillaris persica Adivaman, the lovely pink ground-cover plants
Delltaria spp, and the most brilliant Rosmarinus 'Tuscan Blue' anyone could
which the "play-safe" brigade would never attempt so far inland. Shelter and wise
placing - plus a dash of gambling spirit of the true gardener - have led to triumphant
success with many tender plants; even Beschorneria yucciodes was sticking forth its
is the fact that it is almost brand-new. Jimmy's passion for gardening has led him to
jump the road from the normal confines of his former home to the unlimited space of
his new one, and to madly, wonderfully plant the whole of one side of a not
inconsiderable valley' Just for good measure he has also dammed the stream to form a
fair-sized lake. Capability Smart!
learned at David Trehane's own' garden, at Trehane, on ancestral family land. As Vice
President of the ICS and the leading camellia nurseryman of the U.K., it was no
surprise to find David's garden both lovely and interesting. What makes it unique is
that David and his wife are single- (or rather double-) handedly making a garden on a
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site most people would despair of. the grounds of a burned-out mansion, which acts as
a giant Folly, the perfect foil to the beauty around it and is itself beautiful, draped asit is from ground to roof-top in a curtain of the heavenly-scented climber Holhoellia.
How the Trehanes manage it on top of their nursery work and their innumerable
extracurricular horticultural duties (among them the thousand details of the
arrangements for the Conference, all of flawless efficiency) none of us could imagine,
as we wandered around not the "labour-saving" garden one would expect of such
busy people, but walks and walls and beds, most of them on sloping terraces, and all
still requiring that slave-driver, the hoe, and filled with such treasures as Scilla
liliohvacinthlls, Fritillaris persica Adivaman, the lovely pink ground-cover plants
Delltaria spp, and the most brilliant Rosmarinus 'Tuscan Blue' anyone could
remember seeing.
What we had expected, but which outstripped expectations, was David's trial
plantings of camellias, a living Dictionary of the genus that had members silentlyscribbling in their notebooks.
The Trehane's garden is also an encouragement to the timid, and an endorsement
of the theory that. with reasonable precautions, boldness pays, for they grow exoticawhich the "play-safe" brigade would never attempt so far inland. Shelter and wise
placing - plus a dash of gambling spirit of the true gardener - have led to triumphant
success with many tender plants; even Beschorneria yucciodes was sticking forth its
scarlet dragons' tongues in a promise of fine flower spikes.
While the interest of the Trehane's garden lies in good treatment of the old, that
of ICS Director Dr. Jimmy Smart, at Marwood Hill, (just over the border in N. Devon)is the fact that it is almost brand-new. Jimmy's passion for gardening has led him to
jump the road from the normal confines of his former home to the unlimited space of
his new one, and to madly, wonderfully plant the whole of one side of a not
inconsiderable valley' Just for good measure he has also dammed the stream to form a
fair-sized lake. Capability Smart!
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| Owner of original | International Camellia Journal |
| Date | 1976 |
| Linked to | Trehane House, Trehane Barton, near Probus; David Cowl (D. C.) Trehane |
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