Wonderful Pictures Of Lost Garden. The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, is among the most favored botanical gardens in the united kingdom. The gardens are created by people in the Cornish Tremayne family, over a length in the mid-18th 100 years nearly the starting of the 20th century a garden evolving and receiving more extravagant with each passing generation. Through the Nineteenth century, the gardens thrived, growing larger and requiring greater staff to control them. Prior to the outbreak of The First World War, the Tremayne estate employed 22 gardeners. A lot of those loyal gardeners visited fight, and once the war their numbers had diminished in order that the gardens fell into severe disrepair. As the remainder estate was rented out, the gardens became an afterthought and weren't rediscovered before the 1990s.