A quiet secretive garden in St Austell about a mile from the sea, housing many rare and exotic species. Soil is a fairly well-drained shaley acidic loam containing some china clay. Parts of the site are very windy hence most of the exotic planting is in a sheltered valley running north to south. There was a Camellia hybridising programme begun in the 1960s and the original material can now be seen as mature shrubs. Many beautiful and rare mature trees can be seen such as Podocarpus salignus; Larix dedicua; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Pseudotsuga menziesii; and the tallest, Picea sitchensis. There are huge Rhoddendron falconeri and sinogrande, and plenty of imaginative underplanting such as gingers, Myosotidium hortensia and Cardiocrinum gigantea. One of the best features of the garden is the sight of a Tsuga heterophylla hanging on grimly to an old pine log before plunging its roots into the soil beneath. Another is the old glasshouse containing many exotics including A fine Papaya, a large Clianthus puniceaus (with no slug damage!) gingers, ferns, and the rarer Camellias and Rhododendrons. Worth a visit, we try to go at least three times a year to catch the season's surprises.