My Winter Garden

The gardens at Ednovean Farm were bathed in the warming glow of winter sunshine today, as the steady progress of clearing the debris of the winter storms and season continues.

Revisiting the garden this morning, that I had safely wrapped in nets for the unusually big freeze just after Christmas, was not a depressing as you might think, as I charted the winners and losers of the the plant stakes. A surprising number of the palm species have defiantly shrugged off the frost and throughout the garden the newly emerging Daffodils make fun of the pretensions of sub tropical planting with their indomitable spirit of spring.

The Italian Garden, always sheltered, felt lush and warm today, under an uplifting blue sky, as the debris was piled into the big builders merchants sacks (no longer returnable) to be carted off to the compost heap.

To leave the garden, this evening, with its enveloping sense of peace, as the sun slid below the horizon behind Perranuthnoe was a wrench at the end of this special day lent from Spring.

A statue in the Italian Garden touched by the winter sunshine

The church tower of Perranuthnoe silhouetted against the sea, beyond the garden as the sun sets

A triumphant agave, survivor of the unusual frost