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The Southwest is famed for both its three great wildernesses and its carefully cultivated gardens where nature has been tamed, tended, tweaked and teased into position for your viewing pleasure.

The Cheesewring, Bodmin Moor at sunset

Burrator Reservoir, Dartmoor at sunset

Bluebells on Dartmoor at sunset

• Bodmin Moor. Go searching for the 'beast' and the myriad of other mystical creatures said to inhabit the Southwest’s smallest stretch of wilderness, here

• Dartmoor. A great swathe of primeval countryside, dotted with prehistoric ruins, medieval villages and gnarly, fantastically-shaped granite tors bathed in mysterious swirling mists – it’s a walking, cycling and horse-riding paradise, here

• The Eden Project. The Southwest’s very own rainforest, housed in a series of enormous greenhouses, is the region’s most popular attraction. A veritable tropical jungle wonderland, here

• Exmoor. One of Britain’s very first national parks and still one of the best. Exmoor provides a softer, gentler, more agricultural alternative to Bodmin and Dartmoor, with a network of well-worn routes taking you past the verdant fields, dry-stone walls, wooded combes and tinkling streams on the lookout for the abundant wildlife, here

• The Lost Gardens of Heligan. The exotic blooms, kitchen gardens and glasshouses of a 19th-century country estate restored to all their rampant glory, following five decades in the wilderness, here

• Tresco Abbey Gardens. A luxuriant subtropical garden in a 10th-century Benedictine abbey thriving amid the clement climate of the Isles of Scilly, here

Tulips at the Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall

Heather on Exmoor Cornwall

The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near Mevagissey, Cornwall