Cawsand & Rame Head And Mt Edgcumbe Park Visit, Part XIV, 'Milton's Folly and Exotic Gardens' by She
Channel: semw52
Date: 2016-09-22

Mount Edgcumbe Park and its gardens are Grade I listed and house exotic and rare trees and plants introduced over  hundreds of years. As I wander down by a small lake and enter the Amphitheatre I am  aware of the magnificence and  the grandness of the plants and flowers all around me--sometimes huge lush plants--there is also signposts and information posts about the National Camellia Collection---all this splendour is completed by the John Milton circular iconic Temple with the inscription from his poem 'Paradise Lost in 1755, "...overhead up grew, insuperable heights of loftiest shade." And set close to  the River Tamar and Plymouth Sound with an array of  marine vessels passing by from Naval ships and Royal Marine landing vessels to small yachts, sloops and cutters"------yes a place of history, of romance and of adventure----a great days walking here-----more to come folks