St Michael’s Mount

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This is where ocean winds strike terraced gardens clinging to precipitous granite cliffs. Where myriad plants festoon and tumble over bedrock, all the while painting them with cascades of colour and shades of texture. A more challenging site within which to create a garden scarcely exists, yet the St Aubyns dared to defy all odds in the 18th century when they created a walled garden terraced directly into the south-facing cliff below their family home. Some 230 years later, the same family is continuing to shape the evolution of their garden through a Master Plan, completed in 2010.