Trebah Garden

A beautiful garden, with a rich variety of plants set in a very special location. The cafe food was excellent quality too, it was fairly priced for what you receive and I would definitely visit to enjoy it again. Entry cost for your ticket is quite pricey which is my only reservation which will stop me returning too regularly- but I'd highly recommend and it's certainly worthwhile.

Absolutely beautiful gardens, we visited beginning of July 2025. Can choose between easy or more hilly walk around the grounds. We took our dog who also loved it. You can take your dog into the cafe which is great. Highly recommend a visit.

A beautiful place to visit. They have a large variety of plants, some of which I have never seen before. It was like walking through a fairy land. The private beach is a lovely place to have a rest and grab a drink,or ice cream before walking back to the main entrance. I regret not bringing a swimsuit along with me, as the water looked very inviting and the people swimming seemed to be having a wonderful time. They have a lovely gift shop and restaurant too at the main entrance, as well as a garden centre where you can purchase some of the plants that they have on display in their garden.

Truly spectacular. I was expecting a kind of park with floral beds experience but this was so much more. It is set in its own 26 acre valley, with well established woodland and absolutely huge trees. Thick bamboo forest, ponds, a lake, even its own private beach. A maze of footpaths meander downhill through the woodland and gardens to the beach. Quite a steep walk back but there are benches to rest on about every 50 yards. There is also a wheelchair friendly route. Dogs are welcome too and there is a jungle adventure play area hidden in the woods. Toilets are at the entrance only and not any more, so keep that in mind before you set off walking. Parking is included in the entrance fee. There is a cafe and gift shop near the entrance, and a small shop down on the beach. The entrance fee seemed expensive to me at first, but I can now see it was worth every penny. Really good value.

Lovely, well kept gardens with exotic trees and plants, most of which are labled. Plenty of stuff for kids and dog-friendly in nearly every part. Lovely cafe with decent food choices. Surprise beach that's steeped in history with a lovely ice-cream hut!

Was greeted by a very polite and friendly young man, we were in a camper and partner disabled and needed the mobility scooter, he showed us down to the main house and parked us up, he got assistance again a very friendly young lady and she help with the scooter and gave us macs to keeps us dry as it started to rain, then help us at every point and walked us to the entry point and stayed with us to the tills, I was shocked at the fact the scooter was free and the level of service is second to none. The gardens are gorgeous and the rain stopped and turn out pleasant, I even had a dip with the dogs in the sea, would definitely go back and visit in different seasons for sure.

This is a truly spectacular and sensational Sub-tropical garden in Cornwall and certainly rivals The Lost Gardens of Heligan as being the best sub-tropical garden in the South West of England. This garden is nestled away beautifully at the mouth of the Helford River and is complete with its very own private beach and is also a sub-tropical paradise and masterpiece. In the Visitor Centre there is a brief informative of the history of the gardens and the various people who lived and owned the Trebah over the years and there is some interesting points about the how the gardens were made into the sub-tropical paradise it is today by the Fox family during the victorian times with the various sub-tropical plants they introduced into the garden. The exhibition also covers how the garden became a tourist attraction and also how they became a charitable trust. The exhibition is a really good introduction to the gardens and also gives you an idea of the brilliance you're about to see in the gardens. The size of the gardens is of a fairly decent size and also an awesome, exquisite and amazing sub-tropical sight and is like an oasis when you first see as it blows your mind massively in a good way. The garden have a number of dazzling and truly awesome and breathtaking features and these include Water Garden, Top Trees, Hydrangea Valley, Rhododendron Valley, Gunners Passage, Stumpery & Cascade, Mallard Pond, Chilean Coomb, Alice's Seat, Koi Pool and Bamboozle and all of them have awesome and spectacular arrays of colour from the plants on show but also they blend in wonderfully and beautifully together to great a truly awesome sub-tropical paradise and spectacle. During the early Spring Months the Rhododendrons make for an absolute spectacular display in the garden and during the Summer months it is the Hydrangeas and Gunnera that dominate in a splendid manner. The pick of the plants has to be the ferns and the Palm Trees as they bring out the sub-tropical feel in a truly majestic and magnificent and the Rhododendrons make it even better and blend in well together with the other plants. The walks around the gardens are fairly easy going and you can enjoy truly spectacular and breathtaking views from the top of the valley towards the beach and the mouth of the Helford River and the views are some of the most breathtaking and iconic around from any garden in Cornwall. There are some outstanding views to enjoy from the Mallard Pond back towards the House at the top of the valley, which are absolutely stunning. You can wander down to the private beach, which is a magnificently unique part of this place and you can enjoys views of the mouth of the Helford River close up and also relax and enjoy the environment, which is a truly immersive and excellent experience. You can also see some Koi Carp in the Koi Pond and is another wonderful aspect of this place. There is the court garden that can be visited just prior to going into the Visitor Centre with some of the finest blend of different colours from the flower borders that you will see of any garden you will see anywhere. There is a cafe on site selling a lovely variety of food and drink at reasonable prices and there is a gift shop with a nice array of souvenirs at wonderfully reasonable prices. Overall this is a truly spectacular and wonderfully enjoyable place to visit, which makes for a wonderfully memorable day out. Well worth a visit whilst in the Truro & Falmouth areas of Cornwall.

So beautiful I can't describe this in words. Beautiful little beach. The flowers, trees etc are so beautiful, lots of inspiration for our garden. Lovely shop and garden centre and perfect cafe, also for breakfast with vagan and veggie options!!

This garden is not far from Falmouth UK. There are mostly trees with some being the oldest of the species in the UK. Just before the entrance is the court garden with flowering plants. There are various paths to follow and all quite pretty. There is a section for young children to play. There are some falls and ponds. Some trees are so tall you can't imagine how old they must be. The paths can lead you past an amphitheater built by hand and end up at the beach where you find some picnic tables and a small takeaway cafe with ice cream and drinks. At the entrance where you leave afterwards is a cafe with various things and a gift shop. There is also an area to buy plants. It's a pleasant place to spend a few hours. Dogs are allowed as well. The paths have some steps or hills but manageable. We all enjoyed it.

We went there cause of the very good ratings and were disappointed. I don't think this garden is so special. You have all the plants there you can see in private gardens or just at the side of the street when driving through Cornwall: masses of giant rhubarb, hydrangeas, rhododendron in a small valley. Maybe it's necessary to take a guided tour. The garden is small, walking through it, down and up again, it takes you not more than an hour without any hurry. You have a little artificial fish pond, a pond with a rhubarb in it with a tacky white bridge. Well there are maybe two or three nice viewpoints, but that's not enough. The toilets were very clean, that I can praise ;-). It's definitely too high priced for what you get, 3£ would be enough.

Wonderful gardens, especially if you like magnolias and rhododendrons. There are numerous paths through the garden, some are more taxing than others, but all are worth the effort. Form the tall bamboo to the prehistoric giant rhubarb there is wonder around every corner. Well worth the visit. As Gaynor9 suggests I would recommend visiting the gardens in march to get the best out of them. Also if you are travelling from the southern part of Cornwall don't be tempted to go cross country to get to it, take the longer journey along the main roads and you will save time and sanity. I lost count of the number of times we had to play the 'who's going to reverse' game as the b roads are only wide enough for one car.

These gardens may be on the small side but the best word to describe the gardens is lush. Set in a steep gorge leading down to a private beach, the planting has an exotic feel and leads you down, pass ponds briming with dragoflies, all species of wildfowl and aquatic flora, until you navigate over a stone wall/bridge to the private beach. Great for the able body but anyone with mobility problems would not be able to enjoy the full experience of Trebah. The steep walk back up the gorge can be a challange for the less able and anyone with small children and buggies. The restaurant has won awards and justly so. The menu is limited but well cooked and well chosen.

I visited Trebah last Summer and found it to be a very nice garden. The entrance is at the top of the gardens and you slowly make your way down from the top of the gardens to the beach at the bottom. The plants are not the usual type you would expect to see in Cornwall, they are much more tropical, so it is surprising such a garden exists in this area. If you having walking difficulties, be warned that the only way back from the beach is to walk back up the hill to the entrance. I would recommend this if you are interested in plants and are looking for a peaceful day out.

Great place to spend a day, very tranqil place. It's are large garden that does have disabled access, best time to go is in march when all the flowers have opened and the place is full of colour. This year I went in June and the flowers were dying off, although still a beautiful place it's best to enjoy it in all it's glory. The food is enjoyable although pricey might be worth taking a picnic and eating it at the beach. There is also a childrens fort play area. It's is pricey to get in but a wonderful day out.

It is 2010, austerity year, so Mr P and I planned a holiday in the UK this year rather than heading further afield. We decided on Cornwall; I am an Aussie with a hankering for the sea. Mr P is definitely not a sea baby, but he will, occasionally, take his socks off and dip his toes in the water too. Our 1 week in Corwall was, according to Mr P, to be a supremely, inexcusably, lazy holiday. None of the usual flitting about from place to place. None of my usual exhausting desperation to see everything there was to be seen. No walks that mysteriously turned into long day hikes. We walked, mostly, and sat by the sea in old sleepy Cornish fishing villages. But one permitted adventure saw us driving off, via many Cornish, narrow, hedged back lanes, to see the Trebah Garden near Falmouth. And what a find! Set on a steep slope, the garden proved astonishingly beautiful, and quite empty on a non-school holiday weekday. But even more astonishingly beautiful was the surprising beach which you find, literally, at the bottom of the garden. The beach is not really highlighted on the Trebah gardens website. Which is probably why it is such a gem of a find. It is a pebble beach, but the pebbles are smooth. Anyway, there are plenty of hidden spots in the garden to spread out a towel. The water, on a hot sunny day, is a lovely calm, sparkly, crystal clear, refreshing blue. It is a perfect spot for swimming, and your pooches. There is a cafe on the beach (with drinks and ice cream), and a much larger, fantastic cafe, with great food, puddings and one of the best ploughman's lunches ever, at the top of the garden. The garden is stunning, the views are magnificent, but most importantly, there is a beach at the bottom of the garden! I haven't seen all the gardens of the world, of course, but I know of no other garden like it, and would go back again and again and again.

Im lucky enough to live only 5 miles away from this place the gardens are heavenly, so are the beaches near them, all in all a wonderful part of Cornwall and shows of just how magical a place it really is.

What a wonderful place. Took the kids and the dog, all made very welcolme. One of the most beautiful and picturesque places I have ever been. Breathtaking beach/cove, delicious food some of the best we have ever tasted. Gardens superb. The staff super friendly, all in all one of the best days out we have ever had. Sat on the little beach/ cove and enjoyed tasty icecream while the dog and kids had a paddle.