{"id":475389,"date":"2026-03-14T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:50:09","slug":"hope-blooms-at-trewithen-gardens-after-storm-goretti-felled-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475389\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope blooms at Trewithen Gardens after Storm Goretti felled trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The storm did most of the clearing for them, but it also brought wide\u2011ranging damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of the estate&#8217;s Monterey pines, about 100 years old, were snapped by the 99mph gusts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A few Pieris formosa collected by plant hunter George Forrest in 1932 were also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One discovery about a plant found natively in the Himalayas has intrigued gardeners across Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long said after speaking to colleagues on other estates, &#8220;not a single Magnolia campbellii had been damaged or brought down by the storm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because of that resilience, he believes magnolias could play a bigger role in Trewithen&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Magnolias could work as a windbreak because you don&#8217;t want to stop the wind, you want to filter it and camellia, although they&#8217;re an ornamental plant, they&#8217;re very wind\u2011firm so you could under plant the camellias.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said future windbreaks &#8220;could look like mini-gardens as you&#8217;re driving around, it&#8217;s not a bad thing, is it?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changing landscape will also alter the experience for visitors walking through the 30-acre garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The storm did most of the clearing for them, but it also brought wide\u2011ranging damage. Many of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-475389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}