Bosvigo
It is evident an artist prevails over this beguiling garden with a painter’s palette — plants are carefully associated to contrast with their bedfellows and mix floral colour with subtle modulations of tone. Designed and lovingly tended by Wendy Perry, the garden is laid out as a series of spaces situated around a Georgian house overlooking central Truro, in Cornwall. The two principal spaces are formal in structure, with the predominating geometric lines softened by voluminous, colour-themed plant associations.
The Vean garden is an iconic space in its own right, with cream, white and yellow flowers amongst gold-leaved plants, including tightly-clipped cones of Lonicera ‘Baggesen’s Gold’. The Walled Garden comprises purple, red and pink clouds of frothy blossoms borne on wispy stems. Spires of Truro Cathedral and the equally soaring arches of the Great Western Railroad viaduct provide dynamic punctuation and rhythm to these sophisticated plantings. As you walk around and explore the spaces within space, lichen encrusted benches are positioned carefully to be gazed at as objects of beauty before offering an ideal place for respite — the elegant back splats are composed of arcs and gestural curves, as if beckoning you to approach and sit.