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Ednovean’s garden as Spring turns to Summer

June 30, 2016

View over a formal garden to the sea from a bedroom at Ednovean Farm
The guests in our Apricot bedroom have a view over the sundial garden from their terrace

May and June have sped passed and the Ednovean Farm garden has met the cusp of summer before I almost noticed the passing of time. We’ve been so busy with the Bed and Breakfast this year that I hardly noticed the approach of the longest day – maybe it was the week that I spent glued to the Chelsea flower show, veraciously examining the designs of the show gardens that led me to miss my garden update last month for May.

In this month’s update I’ll show you around the formal gardens softened with wild flowers and share some photos of my favourite garden flowers as the heady days of summer finally approach.

Box topiary and formal parterre in teh courtyard gardne at Ednovean Farm near Penzance
The formal courtyard garden set in the old farmyard at Ednovean Farm

Of course, as the days lengthened, I’ve spent some weeks dragging the hose around in the evenings when we’ve had a drought, to help my pots along the way that live in the more formal courtyard gardens. Here there is very little topsoil but the old farmyard has lent itself perfectly to the terraces and parterres framed with the flamboyant Date Palms and box, over the years and I’ve amassed quite a selection of terracotta pots to soften the design and frame the edges of the courtyards.

oriental poppies form part of teh planting in the ednovean farm garden
The gorgeous oriental poppies
A mix of poppies and topiary give a relaxed air to the formal couryard
A froth of self seeded poppies appear each year veteran successors of a woolworths packet of seed bought 40 years ago
Banana plants thrive in the subtropical Cornish climate
Lush bananas in a corner of the courtyard
An old fashioned rose fills teh courtyard garden with scent
We have a beautiful old fashioned rose that was handed down through my family
Statues are wonderful garden details
Statues are partly hidden around the gardens
Apple blossom on a vintage west country variety
May brought apple blossom to our little orchard
Date palms drw guest in through the entrance to Ednovean Farm
Date palms tucked inside of the courtyard
david austin rose
Beautiful blue eryngium
A steely blue eryngium in the courtyard garden
A pretty fountain wlecomes bed and breakfast guest to Ednovean Farm
The fountain that is the central focus of our courtyard
The delicate flowers of the hedging fuchsia
Simple hedging fuchsias – I’ve dug up the tree several times and now given up!
Purple Iris
The voluptous purple Iries

The sundial Garden

The last of the evenings sunshine
The last rays o the summer sun about to leave the courtyard garden

This month I’ve enjoyed watching the small intimate sundial garden behind the house that the Apricot bedroom terrace looks down through. I bought the sundial to celebrate our third wedding anniversary, oh so many years ago and gradually added the garden around it using the left over box plants from planting the main parterre in the courtyard. I filled one side of the box lined beds with fragrant lavender and the other tucked more in the shade of the bank is filled with ebullient wild flowers simple foxgloves Valerian that thrive in the Cornish countryside.

Valerian and foxgloves - wild flowers in a formal garden
Valerian and foxgloves soften the formal hedges
Each bedroom has a private terrace at Ednovean Farm
The Apricot bedroom terrace at the head of the sundial garden
Lovley views to ST Michael's Mount from Ednovean Farm
Lavender mingles with box in the sundial garden
A step leads to another area inthe garden for guests to explore
The gravel terrace leads to the sundial garden
Informal Garden steps
Steps lead from the sundial garden towards a bench overlooking the shipping lanes
cottage garden planting for summer
Wild foxgloves migle with the irises

Charles has been busy mowing the lawns in the eternal battle to control the sword that reaches its peak about now and even the rabbits are looking lazy and fat as they gorge on the soft fresh growth!

bed and Breakfst guests at Ednovean farm enjoy walking through the gardne to enjoy the views
Our guests like o walk across the gardens to the gate to look at St Michael’s Mount
A garden bench at Ednovean Farm gives an idea of the height of the echiums
A bench to rest on below the great spires of the Echiums
Gunnera
The Gunnera enjoys a spot by the garden drain on the lower lawn
A sweep of green lawn framed by borders
Charles pride and joy – the lawn

 

 

 

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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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