Trebah offers the perfect environment for learning and discovery and provides a magnificent educational resource for both arts and sciences.

Facilities

The Vinery is a large education room tucked away in a secluded part of the garden.  The Vinery includes an extensive covered area together with washing and toilet facilities.  The Vinery is available for school visits if booked in advance.

Workshops

Children’s “drop in” workshops are held at regular intervals throughout

the year and always during school holidays.  This is not a “classroom” environment but a space for creativity, enjoyment and relaxation.

Adults are welcome to join in the fun!  The workshops are professionally run and suitable for all age groups.  See the events page for the current programme.

Workshops in Poetry, Art and Drama also take place throughout the year for both children and adults.  These are becoming increasingly popular and provide a relaxed learning environment.

Caroline Carver, Trebah’s Resident Poet, holds regular workshops and poetry readings in the Vinery and Garden.

Caroline also gives workshops around the country and mentors a number of poets.  She won the National Poetry Prize in 1998.  She has had two collections published, JIGHARZI AN ME from Semicolon Press,

2000 (in West Indian dialect) and BONE-FISHING from Peterloo Poets, 2006.  Her work is published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including publications in Italy.

This is the first of Caroline's poems about the seasons at Trebah.

The Garden in Winter by Caroline Carver

Summer’s green from top-to-toe forests of gunnera

have been replaced by battlefields

Yodas from Star Wars

Narnia figures

frozen by the Wicked Witch of winter

most have hidden their faces

under dark cloaks

of draped and clinging outer leaves

but some still raise their eyes

protesting this curse that falls on them

every year

At Alice’s Seat

there’s a great silence under the thatched roof

all the little animals and insects are asleep

air holds its breath

listening for the voices of poets

In the valley of the hydrangeas

which should

like the gunnera

have seemed quite dead

a few white heads remain

a few blue rinse memories of sun

Yes it’s still winter

even the gunnera fountain at the top of the garden

moves more slowly

although camellias and azaleas

wake earlier each year

and birds are singing

everything is waiting for spring

and rritable as cowslips in too much wet gravel

winter is seeping out of the garden

Janet Judge the well-known Cornish Watercolour Artist holds regular workshops for children and adults.

Born in 1956, Janet studied sculpture and etching at Bath Academy of Art. She had a successful career in teaching before starting to paint in 1987. She rapidly developed her love of the freedom and pure colours of watercolour and now draws inspiration from her beautiful home and cottage-style garden.  Best known for her still life paintings, Janet has an equal following for her landscapes and pictures of traditional teddy bears.  After ten years of working exclusively in watercolour Janet has recently returned to etching and started working in pastel and oil paints but watercolour remains her first love.  Janet has exhibited widely and has many customers both at home and abroad.  See events page for dates of next workshop.

Please contact for further information about education at Trebah. 

School visits are welcome throughout the year. 

Tel: 01326 252200; Fax: 01326 250781; email: mail@trebah-garden.co.uk

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