Description

The Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz has gardens designed at the end of the 19th century by the gardener and landscaper of French origin Dorgambide, a garden made up of a multitude of both foreign and indigenous species.

Collection of camellias

In the years 1975-1980, its owner, Victoriano Piñeiro Acosta, restored the existing flora in accordance with historical tradition, and added a magnificent collection of camellias to the existing ones from the 19th century and other plants imported from different parts of the world. The gardens are of high botanical and ornamental interest, where a multitude of species grow, both indigenous and foreign, introduced with a landscaping and ornamental criterion over the years.

The gardens are surrounded by vineyards and a native forest, hundreds of species grow, many tropical and exotic, although the queen of the garden is the camellia. Today more than 6,000 specimens of Camellias flourish of more than 2,000 different varieties of 90 species) that coexist with other imported plants with more than 500 species from the 5 continents.

Tea Garden

In 2008 a Tea Garden was built, the first Camellia sinensis tea plantation in Spain, a project with permaculture and the circular economy, a very productive plantation with harvests from the end of March to the beginning of October. Ecological cultivation; with completely artisanal collection and processing, with its own methodology based on Chinese and Japanese tradition.