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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 11/01/2025

We're looking for someone with great communication and teamworking skills to manage our archive collection which showcases stories from the last 200 years of West Cornwall’s natural heritage. Read more at buff.ly/42h45qa #collectionsmanagement #archivist #botanical #heritage

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 10/01/2025

The Gardeners' House project has reached a milestone moment in our journey to bring the building in Morrab Gardens back to life, as we start to build our team before we open our doors in late Spring 2025. www.thegardenershouse.org/post/join-ou... #jobvacancies #jobs #jobsearch #penzance #cornwall

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 05/01/2025

For the last in our #12daysofchristmas review of the past year here's an interview with Summer Robinson - she is part of the Gardeners' House construction team, working as a trainee quantity surveyor - read on for a wonderful insight into her job!

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Meet Summer, our trainee quantity surveyor on site

We've interviewed Summer Robinson - she is part of the Gardeners' House construction team, working as a trainee quantity surveyor.She has kindly taken the time to answer some questions we put to her-…

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 04/01/2025

Mark kindly took the time to answer some questions we put to him - read on for a wonderful insight into how he will support us in developing our sensory garden, and finding out more about his love for creating gardens. The full interview is at buff.ly/4gFb40y

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Meet our new horticultural lead, Mark Holman

We've interviewed Mark Holman - he's recently joined the Gardeners' House team as our horticultural lead and we love his passion and dedication to making the world a better place, one garden at a…

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 04/01/2025

In September we featured our new horticultural lead Mark Holman, who will manage the planting for our sensory garden. When we spoke he had recently joined the Gardeners' House team, and we loved his passion and dedication to making the world a better place, one garden at a time. #12daysofchristmas

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 03/01/2025

We love this video of Stephen from our building team working on the masonry of our building. In appointing our contractors, it was essential that they understood the restoration of heritage properties, and it is wonderful to see such care being taken on the Gardeners' House. #12daysofchristmas

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 02/01/2025

We're always happy to attend events and meetings to talk more about our heritage restoration project, so please do get in touch at info@thegardenershouse.org with any requests.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 02/01/2025

In June we has a stall at the Morrab Library's popular Summer Fair. It was a pleasure to meet members of the public in the sunshine in front of the Library and talk about our plans to revive the former Gardeners' House in Morrab Gardens. #12daysofchristmas

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year from the Gardener's House team! On day 8 of our #12daysofchristmas, we revisit last May when we met Bridgitte. She played a crucial role as part of the Jewell Construction Ltd team on site. It was fascinating to hear about her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated field.

A photograph of Bridgitte, wearing full personal protective equipment, working on the steel reinforcing for the lift shaft of the Gardeners' House building.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 31/12/2024

In April, we announced local artist Sue Lewington as our artist in residence to document the transformation of the derelict stables into the Gardeners’ House. Her artworks chronicling this fascinating journey will be compiled into a book forming part of our living archive . #12DaysofChristmas

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 30/12/2024

Emmy - one of our volunteers on The Gardeners' House Penzance project - often shares one of her finds from our archives of over 2,000 volumes documenting the natural history of Cornwall. Her most recent treasure was Marsh and Shore: Bird-watching on the Cornish Coast. #12daysofChristmas

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 29/12/2024

We love these gorgeous tiles, created by the children at St Mary's School in Penzance, working with our artists, Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs. The designs will inspire the installations we will have in the sensory garden - they're filled with colour, detail and a love of nature! #12daysofChristmas!

A picture of some of the tiles created by the children at St Mary's School in Penzance. They're filled with colour, detail and a love of nature!

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 28/12/2024

A landmark moment for our project in February as the builders started work in earnest! We appointed Jewell Construction Ltd - a family-run Cornish firm with great experience in heritage restoration projects - to undertake this major restoration project of The Gardeners' House. #12daysofChristmas

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 27/12/2024

Before the builders started work we had a chance to explore parts of the building that hadn't been seen for decades. Look at all the character and beautiful features of the building - those stairs have not been trodden in many years! #12daysofchristmas

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 26/12/2024

Wherever possible we ensured the plants found new homes in other parts of the gardens. While some plants have been moved, some of the larger, more established plants remain. They will be an integral part of a new sensory garden, thoughtfully designed for us by the Sensory Trust for all to enjoy.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 26/12/2024

For the #12daysofChristmas, we are reflecting on the journey we've embarked on over the past year. Just 12 months ago, we were preparing for the exciting transformation of our building in Morrab Gardens by carefully relocating some of the plants from the site.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the team at The Gardeners' House! This photo, taken on a snowy day in January 2024, shows our building - the old stables - in Morrab Gardens before work began on its refurbishment. Over the #12daysofChristmas we'll be looking back to see how far we've come in a year.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 10/12/2024

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 10/12/2024

So what's going to be happening when we're up and running? Lots! People will be using the archives for research or general interest, schools will be able to use our space for ecology studies, #SustainablePenzance will run workshops here - and much more.

The image shows typical examples of the activities which will take place at the Gardeners' House including a workshop led by Sustainable Penzance, a class from a local secondary school using the lab space for ecology studies and a group of home-educated children.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 08/12/2024

Sue kindly allowed us to use this photograph. She told us "I'm the little maid front left, with my cousins Edwin Watson, and Alan and Mary Cox, with our grandfather."

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 08/12/2024

For many years Morrab's Head Gardeners lived in the gardens - accommodation for the gardener and their family was provided in the old stable block, next to Morrab Library. One of our supporters, Sue Griffin, recalls visiting her grandfather, William Watson, at his home in the gardens in 1948/9.

A picture of William Watson standing in front of his house in Morrab Gardens, with four of his young grandchildren

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 27/11/2024

With access to all aspects of the garden, and filled with sensory highlights, even a small space can provide a wealth of engaging experiences. It can provide people who have limited mobility with opportunities to connect with nature for their mental and physical health and well-being.

This is a plan of the sensory garden that we will establish, with tactile surfaces and artwork to complement the sensory planting

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 27/11/2024

We have asked the excellent Sensory Trust team to design and create a sensory garden space in the area between The Gardeners' House and the Pengarth Day Centre buildings. This picture of their show garden at the Hampton Court 2019 Garden Festival shows what a great sensory garden can look like.

This picture of the Sensory Trust's show garden at the Hampton Court 2019 Garden Festival is a superb example of what a great sensory garden can look like.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 27/11/2024

We have been building relationships with several partner organisations who will work with us at the Gardeners' House. One of our partners is the Sensory Trust, who already use Morrab Gardens as a space to run activities for people with dementia.

Walking and talking in Morrab Gardens with the Sensory Trust's Wednesday Wanderers and Paul Nature dementia group and their careers.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 25/11/2024

We will continue to grow the archive and include items that reflect the thoughts, feelings and experiences of people in the community today, particularly in response to the natural world and the climate emergency.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 25/11/2024

Creating a new home for these collections will mean that they are safeguarded and preserved in Penzance so that the community, researchers and visitors can fully access it and be inspired by them.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 25/11/2024

The new Gardeners' House building will become a home to a living archive. At the heart of this is a collection donated by @thehypatiatrust , which showcases the achievements and stories from the last 200 years of the men and women connected to West Cornwall’s natural heritage. #EYA #Archives

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Our Plans For The Future | The Gardeners' House Penzance

The Gardeners’ House Penzance will become an important centre for the community, helping to improve mental and physical wellbeing. The renovated building will become a home to wellbeing workshops,…

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 19/11/2024

With early support from @archhfund.org.uk Melissa brought together a team to draw up designs for renovation of the building and apply for further funding. Then in 2021 we received support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and were able to start work on a business plan and bid for funding.

An artist's impression of the old stable building after renovation.

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 19/11/2024

It had been the vision of one woman - the late Melissa Hardie-Budden - that this building could be transformed into a library archive, learning centre and place for the community.

A photograph of the late Dr Melissa Hardie-Budden

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The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org · 19/11/2024

We're new here! - so what better way to introduce ourselves than to look back at our journey . . . It starts with a derelict building next to the Morrab Library, in Morrab Gardens, Penzance. Built as stables for Morrab House, it became home to the Head Gardener but has since fallen into disuse.

A two-story granite building, clearly in a poor state of repair, which was once the stables for the adjacent Morrab House

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