Where the Fal Meets the Med ; Sarah Pitt Loses Herself in Stunning Italianate Surroundings
Western Morning News, The › July 20, 2009
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FOLLOW the curved paths through the lush palms and tree ferns at Lamorran House Gardens at St Mawes on a sunny day and it is easy to imagine you are on the French Riviera.
And indeed the garden overlooking the sea, created by Robert Dudley-Cooke and his Italian wife Maria, takes its inspiration from two Mediterranean gardens; the Botanical gardens close to Menton, n ear the Italian-F ench border, and La Mortella gardens on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, created by the late British composer Sir William Walton and his wife Susanna.See the full content of this document
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Where the Fal Meets the Med ; Sarah Pitt Loses Herself in Stunning Italianate Surroundings
The Dudley-Cookes came looking for a garden in Cornwall and found it here on a south-facing slope above the little town of St Mawes on the Fal Estuary. At that time, the early 1980s, it was, says Maria, "a typically Cornish garden, with camellias and rhododendrons".
Making this a family home with their four daughters, th...See the full content of this document
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