It is those little moments in the day that become our dreams and those little dreams that live on in our memories
Garden
Our garden over the years
The gardens at Ednovean Farm started life as an old farmyard a sand school and field. Follow the the metamorphosis to formal courtyards and the sub tropical gardens you see today
A Mediterranean Garden Diary from Cornwall
July brought us a Mediterranean summer that will live in our memories for many years to come and the garden has flourished, revelling in the warmth that stretched into the dusk.
June – the summer solstice garden diary
June 2018 the opening chapter of summer and start of a heatwave. A new chaper in the garden begins and nostalgic memories os family rosses are stirred in this months diary
The reluctant January Gardener!
January 2018 I must admit to being a reluctant January gardener this month – perhaps it was too much Christmas but somehow the prospect of a left over box of Christmas chocs. and afternoon screening of Father Brown won me over instead! And yet somehow the garden got on with “making spring” all on its […]
This year in the Ednovean Farm Garden a roundup of 2017.
Come and visit my garden at Ednovean Farm, in my final Garden diary entry for 2017 I’d like to make a roundup of the seasons. The Ednovean garden in the far south west of Cornwall that has become my friend, litmus of emotions, reflection of dreams and hard taskmaster. This blog will follow the year in […]
Ednovean Farm’s November garden diary
November has been a strange month for my garden diary, a month of days born as if on butterfly wings through the garden, swinging from soft tranquil days to dark dramatic skies before giving way to the final sting of winter. This November, as the year changes from autumn into winter, my garden diary is […]
Trebah Gardens an autumn pilgrimage
We explored Trebah garden again yesterday, as the golden leaves of autumn swirled around our feet. This magnificent garden is in a lush sheltered river valley running down to the sea and the garden coaxes you along its well manicured paths with all of the authority of a vintage Rolls Royce.
August garden diary
Every year is different in the garden of course which is why I love to keep a diary to follow the season. This August has been a topsy turvy month in the garden, to say the least, with fickle weather and curious light but our Bed and Breakfast guests have still enjoyed the opportunity to […]
Trewidden Garden – a spring garden visit in the summertime
This week we squeezed in a visit to Trewidden garden – it is one of the great gardens of Cornwall and it is just outside of Penzance on the Land’s End Road. We found the established arboretum of rare trees gathered by plant hunter Edward Bolitho from habitats around the world, interlaced by a well […]