cornish trees to see?

[alliaria]

off to cornwall this summer, going to see Eden project for the first time, but staying near nequay, does anyone know of any worthwhile trees or forests to see while out that way?

Hi,

Tregreharn near Par sounds interesting, I,ve not been but my chrissy prez, New Trees, seems to suggest lots of exotics and oddities, If not you can always get pissed in Polruan.

Cheers.

[tommer9]

Yeah Tregrehan has some amazing trees. Its the home of Tom Hudson......and a very tall sitka...We measured to 140 feet, and there was about another 8 or nine feet left.

[Saw-sick Steve]

Lanhydrock, a National Trust estate near Bodmin, has some nice parkland and woodland gardens. Bocconoc, near Lostwithiel, is a large estate and deer park with some nice veteran Oaks and Beech, a large %age of which is SSSI.

For a real Cornish speciality, get up to Dizzard in N.E Cornwall, an excellent and rare example of a stunted Sessile Oak wood that's been 'bonsai'ed' by the Atlantic gales - you'll feel like Gulliver.

Any of the flooded river valley woods are nice, Lantyan is a nice Woodland Trust reserve near Golant on the River Fowey. The Fal estuary is also worth a visit, as has already been mentioned.

Cabilla, near Bodmin, Golitha, near Draynes, and Respryn are all nice mixed broadleaf woodlands on the Fowey.

I'm sure I've forgotten loads, but that lot should keep you busy.

[BenR]

Park house. National trust centre of operations for Dartmoor. Drive up the main entrance huge Sessile Oak just before cattle grid and entrance to the car park BEAST!

 

There are some fine conifers in Cardinham woods which is close to Lanhydrock if you go there. In the car park there is also quite a large Oak. Had a very large limb taken off and is quite one sided. Great fun to climb though!

[BenR]

By the sounds of all these great trees there should be a southwest rec climb also!

[tommer9]

By the sounds of all these great trees there should be a southwest rec climb also!

 

Plans are afoot....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

To all the reccie climb proposals, Im up for these anywhere anytime as long as I havent a pile of work or coursework to plough through!

 

To the BEAST sessile oak, THATS "my cup o tea!"

 

Never been fussed about "exotics" Im a lover of natives and some arguable natives! if there are MONSTER old oaks antwhere i am well in, or beech for that matter

[tommer9]

Yeah we can find some monsters dotted around. Cornwall isnt known for its real biggies, but there are a few......the pic in my avatar was taken at about 135 feet, albeit on above mentioned sitka, but i think that qualifies as fairly big!