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June in the Ednovean Farm Garden

June 30, 2015

Formal courtyard garden at Ednovean Farm
I looked down on the courtyard garden early this morning and was pleased to see the hedges improving!

June has been a wonderful month for the garden here at Ednovean farm, with the sun almost dancing in the garden’s shadows. The long dry spell has suited our planting of drought loving and grey leafed plants perfectly here in our seaside garden. This month more of the garden furniture has had a bright new makeover, more unruly hedges have been almost tamed into submission and I completed a tiny new garden project.

To celebrate our twenty-fourth wedding anniversary (and incidentally twenty four years as a B&B) I planted a small raised terrace above the sundial garden with an arc of white hydrangeas fronted with box balls. I  planted the little box plants, that I had grown from cuttings, out last year and this year they were ready for their first trim to start to shape them.

Elegant White Hydrangeas
I bought some white Hydrangeas to celebrate our twenty fourth anniversay
Further developments for a raised terrace with an existing framework of semi exotic plants
Further developments for a raised terrace with an existing framework of semi exotic plants
Steps lead up from the sundial garden
Steps lead up from the sundial garden
A simple distressed bench now flanked by pots of white hydrangeas
A simple distressed bench now flanked by pots of white hydrangeas

For other parts of the garden I’ve chosen a vibrant blue to pick out the benches and tables and chairs. This month I was thrilled by a gift of a beautiful golden David Austin rose called “Golden Celebration” from two departing German guests and planted my unexpected treasure in the little entrance courtyard in a box edged bed recently vacated by Loquat that sadly “passed on”

Lush green of palms and figs
Lush green of palms and figs
Aquilegia in our entrance courtyard - I added the new golden rose to the border at the back
Aquilegia in our entrance courtyard – I added the new golden rose to the border at the back
Echiums and grasses compete for space this month, in the vibrant June garden
Echiums and grasses compete for space this month, in the vibrant June garden
I carefully draped the ivy back over the bench when I had finished painting it
I carefully draped the ivy back over the bench when I had finished painting it

The box that sat mournfully near death for so long has at last cheered up with its latest herbal treatment and is now blushing gently green with new growth – long may it continue. I daren’t tempt fate by trimming it yet even though, even if the traditional Derby day time limit has come and gone – but at least it looks mostly respectable now. I took this snap first thing this morning looking down over the courtyard and across Mounts bay to Penzance and have to say that June is just such  a glorious month for the garden.

View ver Ednovean Farm garden to Penzance
We woke up to a glorious morning with such a clear view across Mount’s Bay to Penzance

I started to make a new map of the garden working from the map I used when we opened for the NGS – it’s work in progress but you might have fun guessing where the photos were taken in the garden!

Lavender in the little bed near the sundial
Lavender in the little bed near the sundial
The sculpture is by Annie Henry - a local artist in Perranuthnoe and is of an Angel "Grace"
The sculpture is by Annie Henry – a local artist in Perranuthnoe and is of an Angel “Grace”
The palm avenue
The palm avenue
The Irises are still flowering in the lower garden
The Irises are still flowering in the lower garden
Daisies on top of a bank with echiums edging the lawn below
Daisies on top of a bank with echiums edging the lawn below
The spiky agaves love the heat in the secluded Italian Garden
The spiky agaves love the heat in the secluded Italian Garden
Garden map for Ednovean Farm gardens in West cornwall
A map of ednovean farm gardens
Hostas do amazing well beside the stables - I think we have some resident toads to eat the slugs
Hostas do amazing well beside the stables – I think we have some resident toads to eat the slugs

 

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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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