Care Guides

Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant'

Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant'

  There’s something irresistibly soft and generous about Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’. With its aromatic, silvery foliage and haze of lavender-blue flower spikes, this catmint earns its place in every...

Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant'

  There’s something irresistibly soft and generous about Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’. With its aromatic, silvery foliage and haze of lavender-blue flower spikes, this catmint earns its place in every...

Sarcococca confusa

Sarcococca confusa

  Known affectionately as sweet box, Sarcococca confusa brings winter gardens to life with its glossy leaves, richly perfumed blooms, and jet-black berries. This shade-loving shrub asks for little but gives so...

Sarcococca confusa

  Known affectionately as sweet box, Sarcococca confusa brings winter gardens to life with its glossy leaves, richly perfumed blooms, and jet-black berries. This shade-loving shrub asks for little but gives so...

Elegia tectorum

Elegia tectorum

  Bristling with reed-like elegance and the gentle whisper of wind, Elegia tectorum (Cape thatching reed) is a plant of quiet drama and resilient grace. Hailing from South Africa's Fynbos...

Elegia tectorum

  Bristling with reed-like elegance and the gentle whisper of wind, Elegia tectorum (Cape thatching reed) is a plant of quiet drama and resilient grace. Hailing from South Africa's Fynbos...

Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

The Venus flytrap is one of the most iconic and curious plants you’ll ever welcome into your home or garden. With its jaw-like traps and insect appetite, it has fascinated...

Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

The Venus flytrap is one of the most iconic and curious plants you’ll ever welcome into your home or garden. With its jaw-like traps and insect appetite, it has fascinated...

Erigeron karvinskianus

Erigeron karvinskianus

  Easy-growing, self-seeding, and beloved by pollinators, Erigeron karvinskianus brings life and texture to every garden ledge, pot, or path. A Light Touch: Sunshine, Not Shade Erigeron karvinskianus thrives in...

Erigeron karvinskianus

  Easy-growing, self-seeding, and beloved by pollinators, Erigeron karvinskianus brings life and texture to every garden ledge, pot, or path. A Light Touch: Sunshine, Not Shade Erigeron karvinskianus thrives in...

Aeonium

Aeonium

  Aeoniums bring something otherworldly to the garden, with their rosettes poised like mandalas and colours shifting from chartreuse to the deepest purple. Unlike many of their succulent cousins, they...

Aeonium

  Aeoniums bring something otherworldly to the garden, with their rosettes poised like mandalas and colours shifting from chartreuse to the deepest purple. Unlike many of their succulent cousins, they...

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Wellness & Lifestyle

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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