The Lily Tearooms at Penrose Water Gardens are now open to the public.

Here you can enjoy delicious refreshments on the beautiful veranda overlooking the ponds at Penrose Water Gardens.

It also features a selection of Cornish Art by Local Artists, as well as the shop and garden centre, where you can get all sorts of interesting gifts and useful things for the garden.

We are delighted to be able to offer visitors the opportunity to walk around Penrose Water Gardens themselves with a guided tour. This is easy to arrange and the tour guide will give a comprehensive guide to all the different plants and wildlife in the ponds and the surrounding areas.

We enjoy living and working in these beautiful surroundings. To see the springtime plants in bloom with their dazzling colours of yellow and blue reflected in the ponds and to hear and see the birds protected and sheltered in the trees is a privilege. The still clear water is the home to the water beetle and dragon fly nymphs. If we stand long enough and look it is surprising what life you can see below the water surface.

Our guide also runs the tea shop, and has a wealth of information about the gardens, their wildlife, and pond plants too. If you would like to enjoy this experience, a guided walk can be arranged for you to see what lives and grows here. We regret that we can't allow people to walk around the ponds without a guided tour just yet.

Wildlife is a real speciality of Penrose Water Gardens - you can see more on the Wildlife pages, but our regular visitors include many beautiful song-birds, kingfishers, herons, foxes and possibly even the local Otter.

In early summer dragon and damsel flies and many other varieties of insects are abundant.

We are planning a web cam which will be able to show you all the latest wildlife activity from Penrose - check back soon!

Our Gallery of art is attached to the shop, and contains a rolling selection of originals and prints from the very best local artists that we have found.

Please have a look at some of our art in the Gallery pages, or just come along to browse with a cup of coffee!