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The Lost Gardens Of Heligan, Mevagissey, United Kingdom
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The gardens now boast a fabulous collection of aged and colossal rhododendrons and camellias, a series of lakes fed by a ram pump over a hundred years old, highly productive flower and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and a stunning wild area filled with primaeval-looking sub-tropical tree ferns called "The Jungle". The gardens also have Europe's only remaining pineapple pit, warmed by rotting manure, and two figures made from rocks and plants known as the Mud Maid and the Giant's Head.
The place-name, properly articulated 'h'LIG'n', and not the commonly heard 'HEL-i-gun', is derived from the Cornish word , 'willow tree'.
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