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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.
Today
Soon warm winds will find their way
back down the valley
in the dark well of night
Soon, camellias will stand back
from rainbow sighs of water
holding their colours tight
If the Great Gardener in the sky is kind
first blooms of hydrangea will open
not blue this year but white
for happiness. Gunnera, rising from long winter sleeps
will put up new umbrellas
over their pixielands of brave green light
Soon. The lazy carp still flick their tails
winter or summer.
Herons don't trouble them, take uneasy flight
preferring to watch by the big river
for saltier lunchtime foods. Sometimes the sun's too bright,
leaves rust too late, geese stay up north too long.
Perhaps we'll hear the owls again tonight.
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This is the second of Caroline's poems about the seasons at Trebah.
End of May by Caroline Carver
The pages of my book flew open
to a May wind
to sea that smelled of travel
salt and lover’s messages
I took my pencil drew a caravanserai
of wandering stones and fickle seaweed
behind the trees were misty whispering space
tight wrapped in handkerchiefs
The gunnera
unworldly as umbrellas on a fairy beach
or new members of the local school
keep a small distance from each other
not yet ready to share and build
the Magic Kingdom of Green
Only on the island
are they ahead of themselves
snugged together
aloof as a sixth form clutch of scholars
lost in their dreams
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 irritable 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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