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LUC worked with Tim Smit to produce an historical survey and Restoration
Masterplan for Heligan in 1993. The plan enabled the project to obtain
significant grant aid from the Countryside Commission.
“Having been greatly impressed by Dominic
Cole, a garden historian and landscape architect from London, we decided
to appoint him as the leading consultant for its development. A Restoration
Plan draws together all the relevant archival information, survey and
plans, to form a policy document on which all future restoration work
can be based. It seeks to establish clear priorities and define the ethos
of the restoration. Its other main benefit is that, should the principals,
God forbid, fall under a bus, other have at least some idea of where to
pick up the pieces.”
Tim Smit, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, 1998
In 1996 we researched and made detailed recommendations
for restoration of the historical plant collection and established ‘The
Heligan Plant Directory’ - a computer database to plan the replanting
programme. This relates to a set of detailed planting plans prepared by
LUC.
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