Lost Gardens - Presenter Monty Don, garden historian Dr Toby Musgrave and landscaper
Ann-Marie Powell discover a tropical paradise near Falmouth in Cornwall.
The lower garden at Penjerrick was created at a time when intrepid botanists were
bringing home exotic flora from around the world.
Besides the explosions of rhododendrons, there are minor forests of bamboo and
rhubarb overgrown to resemble a series of Seventies parasols.
Somewhere amid the kitsch chaos is an impressive line of tree ferns, long since
threatened by asphyxiation.
The tangled mass must be hacked aside, sensitively, in a bid to recreate the odd
splendour of the original Penjerrick.
