Roseland House

The garden at Roseland house has suffered mixed fortunes over the years. In the 1860's it was, like the house victorianised, but by the end of WW2 there was little left, the whole area having been "dug for victory". Following the war a succession of owners and tenants failed to make much impact, land was sold off and when we arrived in 1983 the garden was empty of plants, featureless and without shelter. Gardening did not begin straight away but the hedges, trees and shrubs planted in the early days now provide the shelter without which nothing much will grow in Cornwall.