Trelissick

Trelissick Garden
Trelissick Manor
Nearest city	Truro

Trelissick Garden (Cornish: Lowarth Trelesyk is a garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Trelissick Garden lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

Trelissick Garden (Cornish: Lowarth Trelesyk or Garden of Trelesyk). Trelissick, first recorded in 1275, means Leidic's farm) Trelissick in the parish of St Ewe has the same derivation but Trelissick in St Erth and Trelissick in Sithney have a different one ("Gwledic's farm").

Trelissick Garden is located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall. It overlooks the estuary known as Carrick Roads.

The garden has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1955 when it was donated by Ida Copeland following the death of her son Geoffrey. A stained glass memorial bearing the Copeland Crest remains to this effect in Feock parish church.

Many of the species that flourish in the mild Cornish air, including the rhododendrons and azaleas which are now such a feature of the garden, were planted by the Copelands including hydrangeas, camellias and flowering cherries, and exotics such as the ginkgo and various species of palm. They also ensured that the blossoms they nurtured had a wider, if unknowing audience. Mr Ronald Copeland was chairman and later managing director of his family's business, the Spode china factory, and flowers grown at Trelissick were used as models for those painted on ware produced at the works.

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