Care Guides

Ananas (Pineapple Plant)

Ananas (Pineapple Plant)

Gentle warmth, bright light, and patient tending are the key to raising a healthy, fruit-bearing pineapple. Growing a young Ananas comosus, commonly known as the pineapple plant, brings a little...

Ananas (Pineapple Plant)

Gentle warmth, bright light, and patient tending are the key to raising a healthy, fruit-bearing pineapple. Growing a young Ananas comosus, commonly known as the pineapple plant, brings a little...

Dicksonia antartica

Dicksonia antartica

For young or small plants in gardens or pots Few plants feel as ancient and enchanting as the soft tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica. With its slow-growing trunk and lush, feathery...

Dicksonia antartica

For young or small plants in gardens or pots Few plants feel as ancient and enchanting as the soft tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica. With its slow-growing trunk and lush, feathery...

Camellia

Camellia

  Camellias are often described as the queens of late winter and early spring gardens. With their glossy evergreen leaves and abundant blooms in shades from soft blush to vivid...

Camellia

  Camellias are often described as the queens of late winter and early spring gardens. With their glossy evergreen leaves and abundant blooms in shades from soft blush to vivid...

Tibouchina

Tibouchina

  Tibouchina, often known as Princess Flower or Glory Bush, is a plant that draws the eye and holds it. With velvet leaves and rich purple blooms that shimmer in...

Tibouchina

  Tibouchina, often known as Princess Flower or Glory Bush, is a plant that draws the eye and holds it. With velvet leaves and rich purple blooms that shimmer in...

Echium pininana

Echium pininana

There are few plants that rival the spectacle of Echium pininana, the so-called "giant viper's bugloss." Native to the Canary Islands but beloved in Cornish and coastal gardens, it rises...

Echium pininana

There are few plants that rival the spectacle of Echium pininana, the so-called "giant viper's bugloss." Native to the Canary Islands but beloved in Cornish and coastal gardens, it rises...

Tetrapanax Rex

Tetrapanax Rex

  There’s no mistaking Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’. With its towering height and enormous palmate leaves, this tropical-looking giant transforms a garden into something cinematic. Often grown as a centrepiece in...

Tetrapanax Rex

  There’s no mistaking Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’. With its towering height and enormous palmate leaves, this tropical-looking giant transforms a garden into something cinematic. Often grown as a centrepiece in...

Wellness & Lifestyle

To garden is to live seasonally, to return to presence through care, patience, and daily attention.

Here you'll find quiet reflections, sensory rituals, and simple ways to bring the gardens calm into your home and life.

Click here to find rest and rhythm and lifestyle inspiration through your garden


Flowers & Crafting

Some things we grow for colour, others for scent and some for the joy of preserving fleeting beauty.

At Heligan, flowers are not just grown, but gathered, dried, and woven into the rhythms of home and celebration.

Click here to learn how we carry beauty beyond the bloom


Tools & Techniques

From hand-forged blades to long-trusted methods passed between gardeners, the tools we use shape not just our soil but our understanding.

Here, you'll find the implements that bring the Heligan gardens to life and the quiet knowledge behind their use, shared by those who use them daily.

Click here to discover hands-on knowledge that shapes every season

From Garden to Plate

The journey doesn't end at the seed bed. What begins with planting often finds its way into the kitchen, into the jar, onto the plate.

Explore recipes, harvest rituals, and preserving techniques inspired by Heligan's productive gardens - carrying the gardens story into every meal.

Click here for a taste of the gardens


Grow with the Seasons

Subscribe for expert tips, heritage insights, and seasonal inspiration - direct from our gardens