01 June 2020

We’ve missed you. We hope that you enjoy this insight into the gardens during lockdown. We’re looking forward to welcoming you back to the gardens and will be releasing essential re-opening information soon.

31 May 2020

During the recent lockdown, Heligan’s Productive Garden being left unable to produce seemed like a crime. Here was a two-acre horticultural machine, designed to produce food, lying idle. Here was a kitchen garden needing to be gardened with a supply of expert but furloughed gardeners ready to do the gardening. The search was on for local community projects to work with…Enter Ken Radford, founder and leading light of People and Gardens

12 March 2020

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to an old friend, a grand old sentinel of the Kitchen Garden; our much loved and admired Lucombe Oak in The Ravine.

05 March 2020

An abundance of camellias continues to embellish the Gardens, the Magnolia campbellii is erupting to life with candyfloss pink flowers and the magnificent daffodil carpet is sweeping across the Gardens can only mean one thing: spring has arrived at The Lost Gardens.

04 March 2020

This month, Heligan Estate Ranger, Olly, has written up the tales around the Estate as we say goodbye to winter and welcome spring.

04 March 2020

On Saturday 10th October, we will be holding the Vegetable Growing Competition as part of this year’s Heligan Harvest celebration.

21 February 2020

We’re inviting you to be part of Cornwall’s Spring Story 2020, as one of Britain’s most spectacular botanical shows bursts into life to herald the start of spring.

06 February 2020

This year, we’re releasing rescued hedgehogs into The Lost Gardens to find their perfect home!

27 January 2020

After another successful Ewe Scanning event, we are happy to confirm that we are expecting 72 lambs in the spring!

23 January 2020

Join Tim for one of these exclusive tours to hear all about the original discovery of The Lost Gardens of Heligan, the tales of the restoration and his ambition for Heligan for the next 30 years.

16 January 2020

We’re very proud to announce that we have collaborated with Trevethan Distillery to produce ‘Lost Garden Rum’.

13 December 2019

This year artist Ulf Pedersen is creating new video projections reflecting the incredible happenings at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. From growing pineapples to seed scattering, pollen-laden bees and the vital work of the Heligan gardeners. Ulf took a trip to Heligan in September to start work on developing his new ideas.