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Highlights from the Ednovean garden for May and June

June 24, 2019

May and June are a stunning time for the gardens at Ednovean Farm, with the final flamboyance of springtime in May finally giving way to the bold voluptuous new growth of the summertime.

formal statue in the golden hour of a summer garden
Golden days ahead as spring turns to summer – David in the Italian Garden


Spring turns to summer in the Ednovean Garden

day lillie spring turns to summer in the garden

With the summer equinox it was a chance to relishing the soft opulence of the new summer growth around me, whilst I gathering the final seed heads from spring garden and scatter them further afield ready for a future season.

With the summer equinox it was a chance to relishing the soft opulence of the new summer growth around me, whilst I gathering the final seed heads from spring garden and scatter them further afield ready for a future season.

So join me this week for my highlights of the gardens at Ednovean Farm as they slowly transform between spring and summertime.


Changing seasons in the garden

Garden season - palms and flowers

The courtyard entrances are one of the surest litmus for the season and the dramatic Beschorneria yuccoides of spring has now given way to a gentle frame of voluptuous white hydrangeas in the inner courtyard framing the entrance to the wider garden and gently beckoning us out to enjoy the sunny hillside above Mount Bay.


Nesting birds and Butterflies

There is a change of atmosphere in the gardens as spring turns to summer. In the Italian Garden the spring hedges are alive with gentle chirping as birds nest artfully concealed their depths. Then just as suddenly the birds have flown and a contented silence falls and the hedges burst into the milky white flowers of the summer to be claimed by a gentle drift of moths and butterflies lazily floating in the afternoon air.

A garden of memories framed by the seasons

As May moves to June the soft pinky copper Albertine Rose planted in a tub in the courtyard garden, flowers again. Each year it brings back treasured memories of my wedding anniversary falls in May and my father who gave me the rose upon our marriage twenty eight years ago saying “The Woodhams family have always had this rose in their garden”

Rose brings memories

Over the years it has forgiven my novice garden administrations in the courtyard we have hewn from the old farmyard and withstood my first faltering gardening efforts, This year it has repaid me with a nostalgic gentle perfume once more, a beautiful old fashioned scent that hangs in the air each year as a poignant memory of childhood days and the years we have spent here. And then the petals will gently fall to lay upon the gravel for a day or two or be eddied away by the breeze.

Early summer courtyard


Adding to those garden memories

greek style pot

Of course our wedding anniversary was the perfect time to add to my pots collect and I found a beautiful Greek style pot locally to add as a focal point in my project/supper garden. It is so wonderful to enjoy the long light evenings in the garden again

 


Courtyard pots for spring and summertime

Greek pots flanking blue bench

Our courtyard also holds a treasured selection of pots some filled with the succulents that were a thoughtful gift from a departing guest and now with surprisingly vibrant flowers to intrigue me as I walk passed them.

spring and summer courtyard

 

Our courtyard garden Gateway to a season

summer garden gateway


Garden highlights from the developing season

garden impression - flower

Sometimes it is the early dusk that brings the humblest plants into magic relief – a unassuming hedging fuchsia poised as delicately as a ballerina above a path rich with a range of textures. Sometimes the warmth  of the afternoon sun just touching  and forming colony of Agaves in a gravel border.

Garden at dusk
Sub tropical planting -summer garden


And promises for the summer days to come

Fading poppies - season changes
sun loungers changing season



And throughout the gravel terraces swathes of Agapanthus, revived, after a years barren sulking about “The Beast from the East” have sent up plump buds sailing on whippy stems. So I think the approaching summer days will be as full of vibrant life in the gardens at Ednovean Farm

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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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