We visited this year in July 2009 when on holiday in Newquay. I've only ever seen bits of Japanese gardens in the UK in parts of garden displays and never a full pure Japanese garden. It's a beautiful peaceful tranquil space where you could spend hours walking round, sitting, admiring the beautiful scenery and plants. I took over 100 photos while I was in the garden; they are on my website if anyone is interested.
The Japanese Garden and Bonsai Nursery is signposted from the A3059, the main road into Newquay from the A30. It's just outside the village of St Magwan, and has a car park for at least 20 cars. You enter into the shop, which itself is amazing, lots of wooden carved dragons, and stones, books on Japanese culture, as well as Bonsai! It's open everyday 10am till 6pm and is £3.50 for adults and £1.50 for children to enter the garden.
You enter the garden by the Waterfall with some beautiful Buddha statues, and works you're way round, you're allowed to go randomly round the garden, there's no set route for you to follow, but you seem to enter further in and it seems to goes on forever. There are a few seating areas dotted around, and some water features, and lots of stone Buddha's and Pagodas. Up the far left is the Bamboo Grove and Moss Garden. As you go round there is a Japanese Zen Garden and further round is the Tea Garden and the Waterfall again, with a large pond with fine Koi swimming. There are plenty of examples of Japanese Maples, Acers, and Azaleas.
It had rained the last two days when we went along, so the paths were a little slippy and the seats wet, so we couldn't enjoy it to its maximum potential. There were several other groups going round the garden at the same time, and we only bumped into one of them once, it is that huge!
As you exit the garden you come into the nurseries full of Bonsai trees in different stages of growth. Lots of Bonsai to buy, at pretty good prices, and you know that they are well looked after. There are some superb £1000+ Bonsai to look at (or buy!) in the nurseries.
An excellent couple of hours well spent!
Pictures of Japanese Zen Garden (nr Newquay)
Japanese Zen Garden (nr Newquay)
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