Overlooking the Fal estuary in Cornwall, The modern National Trust Garden at Trelissick, near Truro was created within shelter belts planted 200 years ago. It is constantly evolving, with new planting and fresh ideas.

The iconic water tower was built for irrigation and fire control; now it is used as a holiday home. Crescent has helped the staff at Trelissick to design a lighting scheme for the water tower and part of the gardens, covering an area of approximately 5 acres. Crescent supplied flood and spotlights from Paviom, and made extensive use of their own LED spot and linear products throughout the project.

For ten days before Christmas these areas were open until 7pm to give visitors a new night time experience. Many of the trees and shrubs around the Loop Walk were illuminated. Some simply flooded with metal halide sources, others treated to LED spotlights with a mixture of white light and RGB colour change effects to provide drama and interest.

The water tower was flood lit and provided an arresting feature when viewed from the car park where visitors first arrive, as it was gift wrapped (see heading image).

John Lanyon, Gardens Manager for the National Trust at Trelissick commented "We are really pleased with the combination of floodlighting and colour changing effects bringing the gardens to life at night, and the high quality of the products themselves"

At the entrance to the garden the interactive art sculpture 'Doodle' by Leolightdesign, which uses Crescent side glow fibre optic cable provided an intriguing welcome, and proved popular with younger visitors.