Ednovean Retrospective - July and August

Do you remember what it is like in summer with long
hot days and lunches in the garden listening to the
drone of the bees?

When pots packed with flowers threatened to overspill

St Michael's Mount grew hazy in the afternoon heat

Succulents luxuriate in the border

bright clashing flowers peek boldly out

reusing old containers just for a change! and candle light flickers in the
courtyards

The garden room is a welcome retreat to read out of the dazzling sunshine

and Spud relentlessly for long hours of cat patrols

I can hear the wind again this morning and so I thought a look back over what I enjoy in the Summer time might cheer up the morning!! Take care if watching those dramatic seas this weekend and remember Cornwall is #openforbusiness!!

AA our latest quality grading

The quality grading certificated of our Bed and
Breakfast

and a special award for our Breakfasts

Charles and I were thrilled to receive the top grading of AA five star gold again this year with a special award for our Breakfasts!!

Good morning from Cornwall

Mounts bay from Ednovean Farm this morning

Good morning on this glorious morning and after looking out of my kitchen window to watch the white horses scorch across Mounts Bay I though I'd share it with you to brighten up February with the news that Cornwall is waiting for you!!

Looking down over the garden this morning

A few rain drops from the overnight rain on the window and palm
leaves on the lawn

That's all from me stables - to muck out, bedrooms to paint and views to be savoured - Have a great day and think of Cornwall!

Winter gales and Garden dreams

The winter gales come each day to tease us, tossing our world around and taunting the garden although strangely  walking with some visitor in the height of Saturday's gale I was surprised to find the Italian Garden completely still while in the lower garde gate beyond the shelter belt it was hard to stand up. Still I've spent a little time this morning adding to my round up of the year on a Google+ album and I wonder if I can share it here to cheer you up for the day of summer dream.

The little signs of spring are still coming of course as the days lengthen by a degree and rearranging the pots to move some Azaleas to a little bit more sheltered place I had a nice surprise in the shape of a forgotten pot of crocuses that had started to shoot.

I spotted a forgotten pot of bulbs I must have planted  ready for the spring
a nice surprise to brighten up those February days!

Click here to view the Spring Summer and Autumn album so far

We have weather!

The recent storms have hit the head lines and at times it has felt as though we were rounding Cape Horn in a house as nature bared her teeth at us in a flurry of malice. The day that was billed as the "biggest waves in the world hits Cornwall" was definitely "interesting" to say the least. We managed to get all of the horses stabled in good time and retreat inside of our house's thick comforting walls, before the worst of the weather came through and boy! did it blow - a miserable howling tantrum of a gale. Fortunately Charles had put a warming casserole in the oven at lunch time because the electricity went off very soon after dark proceeded by the television reception and so we sat in the darkness with flickering candles feeling not quite as romantic as we should have done listening to the storms force outside with nothing to do but wait. By eightish we managed to get outside again to check the horses by candle light, which sent the fillies scuttling around their stables. Spud-Cat had long ago decided against his evening constitutional and actually he's been grounded in case he blew away

We had a welcome respite once in our turbulent week and so I climbed up to the top of the farm to take some photos of Mounts Bay and you can just see our houses roof tucked into the hillside - they knew a thing or two about gales when they built it way back in time. I could just see the sea foaming into the cove below the colts field who I must say looked slightly peeved to be disturbed!

The seas turbulent heart is still showing in the cove below the farm

One of Danni's sons Magic modelling his field

Walking back towards the house for breakfast I topped to look at Sophie and her Daughter Lissie looking engagingly over the fence

Sophie and Lissie - alas you can see just how wet the ground s now with
the
incessant rain

but do not despair - back in the garden the first Daffodils have started to flower, each new plant lifting my spirits as we race towards spring

The wild planting around an old gatepost in an informal
area of the garden

Spud-Cat's best advice - find a cosy spot and let the world go by!

I hope your week has gone well and thinking of all of the poor people in Somerset

Christine and Charles xx

Continuing my look back over our year at Ednovean - on to April, May and June

Continuing my look back over last year with spring
in the courtyard in April and fresh new growth

The fountain always flamboyant starts to tinkle

Irises emerge amongst the box balls in the car park

April

A little cheating with a newly planted urn in a
 rear courtyard

Spring surprises

Gravel paths waiting to be explored
as summer approaches

Heady days and tea is ready to be served in the garden at last

May

June

Pots soften the terrace

Lush new growth on the Parterre

Tranquil mornings overlooking Mounts Bay

The heat embraces the Italian Gardens

Mounts Bay develops a new glow

Lanterns waiting for candles in the courtyard

Foxgloves

Spud Cat

Early flowers

The early flowers of the season are always the most
welcome

The first thrilling find of a glowing yellow Daffodil or Soleil d'Or in the garden always give me hope that spring is really just around the corner. Each evening I tour the garden to look at the newly emerging bulbs and catalogue their progress, just as a litmus of the passing days and to reassure myself that warmer days are just around the corner. The other evening I spotted a few snow drops almost forgotten under a burgeoning shrub but determined to flower none the less. At last to slowly walk back towards to the house, Spud Cat bounding in front of me, still full of the first exuberance of his youth,  he always arrives first, to wait on the doorstep for the slow human to arrive - I wonder if he thinks about spring just around the corner and new plans for the garden...... no I doubt it more likely to be "Food, will there be food in my bowl!" Still it works very well our little evening ritual!

Humans so slow

New snow drops

Looking down towards Perranuthnoe from Ednovean Farm

A last look over the bay as storm cloud gather the other evening

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