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The dance of spring through the garden

March 14, 2025

The dance of spring is unfolding through the Ednovean Farm gardens these days. Anticipated for so long through the lengthening days, the eternal dance of the seasons, has brought the gardens back to life.

We’ve started our garden campaign this year in the spring garden, amongst the newly emerging daffodils.

Sea views from the ednovean Farm garden in springtime
Daffodil under the cordylines At Ednovean Farm above Mounts bay
Shadows dance across the lawn now with the return of spring

Spring brings the return of the shadows

The changing season has returned the shadows to dance in dappled patterns across the lawns once more . The dawn chorus that started with a few gentle cheeps as has grown to a crescendo.

The Ednovean garden diary for early spring

February is the time that we reclaim the garden and regain the connection with the earth.

A spring garden above the sea at Ednovean Farm
The spring walk continues through into the main garden – Sunset above Mounts bay

By late February the naturalised daffodils in the lower terraces have sprung into flower. Once more the vivid splashes of sweetly scented golden yellow herald spring through the gardens. It’s almost impossible to thin that these bulbs have lain dormant, secreted in the earth for almost a year until it was their time to flower again. Improbable but oh so true. The tiny miracles of nature each year.

It was such a pleasure to move amongst the vibrant flowers, in the glowing sunshine once more.

These first heady blooms of the spring garden are the perfect antidote to the winter days.


Our major spring garden job

An old granite gatepost acts as a focal point at the far end of the South or spring walk.

This brings me to our major garden job of the year – to lower the overgrown front hedge! We were lucky, given our garden equipment of loppers, a battery operated chain saw and hedge trimmer, that a local farmer brought his tractor to mechanise the job. Nether-the-less there was still a week’s work to tidy the out of reach places and conduct the first major weeding and edging of the borders.

Each day we were accompanied by an earnest Spud-cat. And each day he would choose a different sheltered vantage point in the sunshine. I’m sure he views his contribution as moral support and quality control.

 (Mechanical hedge trimming has to be finished by the end of February and the birds start to nest, so there was a deadline looming!)

Windbreaks in the coastal garden

The Ednovean Farm garden flows across the hillside above the sea in all of her moods and the dance of spring can vary from an elegant waltz to an impassioned tango. So the garden is divided into sections in places with windproof trees.

Windbreaks in the Ednovean Farm Garden - garden diary
Discreet bands of trees act as windbreaks and divide the garden into sections

Sometimes, even these trees are challenged too far and this winter we lost several at the entrance to The South walk or spring garden.. Strangely though, the space that was left looked rather more elegant and we repositioned the swing to high ground! By the end of the week the cats joined us in the sunshine for afternoon tea looking out to sea!

Sheltering trees at the entrance to the spring garden
The sleeping garden – entrance to the spring walk

Spring breaks

In the early spring, a garden brings a taste of the season to come and our popular Spring breaks are perfect way to reconnect with the exuberance of nature. A perfect way to enjoy the Spring gardens of Cornwall that are reopening now.

Daffodils - three day spring breaks are available 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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