Heligan

During our recent visit to Cornwall we visited The Lost Gardens of Heligan- a lovely garden where you can easily spend the day exploring. The gardens have been restored over a period of time and have areas of jungle, wild gardens as well as walled kitchen gardens and the Lost Valley to wander in. The weather wasn't the best for our visit but nevertheless I would recommend a visit to the gardens at any time of the year.



Bee Boles

These bee boles at Heligan show how people kept bees before the idea of hives were developed- the bees were kept in the skeps which each had a place in the wall protected by the wooden doors. You can just see a gap at the bottom of the door where the bees could go in and out to forage.