A valley garden, established on the north bank of Helford River, is accessible by the bus No. 35, which runs between Falmouth and Helston. The garden is open Tuesdays and Sundays from the mid February to October. The valley garden and holiday cottages in Durgan Village, which you can approach by the winding footpath on the garden, are managed by the National Trust. Glendurgan garden is one of the historic gardens in Cornwall. In the 1820s, Alfred Fox was working for the shipping company based at Falmouth. While his company was exporting vehicles abroad, he became interested in plants in African countries, America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and collected a huge variety of seeds and plants from foreign countries. Between the 1820s and 1830s, he designed the layout of the garden, planted loads of foreign
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