Cornwall’s Trebah Garden Wows in The Secret Garden
Trebah Garden Takes Centre Stage
One of Cornwall’s most celebrated sub-tropical gardens is starring on the silver screen. Now showing in cinemas up and down the country, The Secret Garden is an adaption of a classic novel of the same name, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Set in the 1940s, it’s the story of an orphaned girl, Mary Lennox, who is sent to live on an isolated estate deep in the Yorkshire Moors owned by her uncle Lord Archibald Craven (played by Colin Firth). Mary discovers a key to a magical, secret garden, lost within the grounds, and begins to unravel its many mysteries. The film embraces several enchanting locations, including the Trebah Garden, near Falmouth, which appears in a handful of scenes and features the Gunnera grove (giant rhubarb), lily ponds and tree fern dell.
Dixie Egerickx, who plays ten-year-old Mary, described the Gunnera scene as one of her favourites, having travelled to the south Cornish coast with a fleet of filming crew and technicians.
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The film, which co-stars Julie Walters as Mrs Medlock, the strict and short shrift housekeeper of Misselthwaite Manor, is also available on demand at Sky Cinema. Its producers, David Heyman and Rosie Alison, were responsible for the Harry Potter series and Paddington the movie.
Trebah Garden covers 26-acres and lies above the majestic Helford River within the parish of Mawnan. Not far is the seafaring port town of Falmouth, famous for its outstanding tourist attractions and steeped in maritime history.