Great British GETAWAYS
Jul 15, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS VIVIENNE HAMBLY
“It’s terrible but not totally terrible,” is how Sir Tim Smit explains the effect of lockdown on The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. With just a skeleton staff, the gardens “look like a person who has just got out of bed – not tatty, just slightly wild, which lends a slight air of rakish possibility to the whole thing”.
It’s an optimistic outlook. The RHS, which has had to cancel shows, puts losses at £18 million this year; the National Garden Scheme
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