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Visitor Quote
""This is a world class garden. Nobody should miss seeing it.""
Sir Richard Carew Pole OBE, DL
Estate Office,
Caerhays,
Gorran,
St Austell,
Cornwall,
PL26 6LY
Tel: 01872 501310 / 501144
Tel: 01872 501310 / 501144
Magnolias
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MAGNOLIAS
“No group of trees and shrubs is more favourably known or more highly appreciated in gardens than magnolias and no group produces larger or more abundant blossoms” stated the great Chinese plant explorer, Ernest Wilson soon after the turn of the 19th Century.
Magnolia was named by the Swedish botanist Carl Linneaus in 1737 in honour of the French botanist Pierre Magnol (1638-1715). The plant which Magnol had described is that we now know as Magnolia virginiana an evergreen American species which despite its name was already growing in Europe by the mid eighteenth century. More..........
Charles Williams has written many articles and given many lectures over the years on the subject of Magnolias, click on the links below to see his most recent
Caerhays National Magnolia Collection
Below are a selection of some of the beautiful magnolias connected with Caerhays Estate and the Williams family.Many of these can be purchased from our nursery division Burncoose Nursery by clicking on the BUY NOW link below each picture.
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Download a printable copy of the complete Magnolia Collection
(XLS 155k)
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