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February days in the garden

February 28, 2015

Bold crocus

Ah February days in the garden when the perfect mystery of the season begins expand its magic as each day I’ve watched the garden slowly unfold from its winter rest. Each day has brought a new part of the cycle of the gardens return to life that it has been so slight that it has been almost imperceptible. I’ve watched the Daffodils slowly unfold from the soil and spread through the garden starting in the warmest most sheltered corners and then finally surging through the garden in an unstoppable tide.

Early morning
Looking back over the lawn as the sun creeps across in the early morning. The avenue of Cordyline Australis underplanted with Daffodils at Ednovean Farm


Early mornings in the garden

Each day as I walked down across the lawn to feed the mares that wait at the garden gate for their breakfast in the morning, I’ve watched the Daffodils grow taller and taller and finally send up flower buds this week in a rippling tide under our tiny avenue of Cordyline Australis. I used to smuggle the tiny palms home with my supermarket shopping from the then Safeway’s, when we first converted our barn into our home. Just one or two each week to help to form the shelter belt that now lines one side of the garden from the bellowing sea breezes. They were so tiny then and now such tall strong trees – it seems impossible that we have been running our B&B for twenty four years this year.

The courtyard gardens and the Italian gardens were part of a later project though started fittingly in the year 2000 but it all started with those first tiny palm trees slipped into the shopping trolley one at a time! But this month it has been the emergence of those spring bulbs that have brought hope of the change in the season.

Courtyard walls
St Michael's Mount
Dolly and April above perranuthnoe
Daffodils in February
Date palms in Cornwall
Courtyard fountain
Variegated Ivy
The courtyard garden

I’ve taken a series of snaps over the month and I was surprised how far we had come on our season tide of change which more than anything celebrates the return of the birdsong to the garden this month.

So here we have it February days in the garden at Ednovean Farm


Gardens to visit this month

Cornwall comes into her own as spring approaches basking in the warmth of the Gulf stream and the gardeners of the Great gardens of Cornwall start to compete to count the blooms. The lovely spring gardens near to Penzance of Trengwainton and Trewidden are well worth a visit at this time of year and of course offer awesome teas to round off the day!

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About Christine Taylor

Christine has written a weekly blog about life at Ednovean Farm and interesting places to visit in West Cornwall for over ten years now, concentrating on those off the beaten track places that only the locals find.

Charles and Christine Taylor have hosted Luxury Bed and Breakfast at Ednovean Farm Nr Penzance in West Cornwall since 1991 and live there with three cats and five horses, including a Spanish Stallion called Danni.

Ednovean Farm has been awarded AA five star gold for Bed and breakfast and is included in The Michelin Guide and The Alastair Sawday Guide .

The Farmhouse and gardens has been featured in BBC Homes and Antiques, Homes and Gardens. Period Living and 25 Beautiful Homes as well as being used as a film and photo shoot location.

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