July has been a month of juggling visitors and work, it's also been a month of glorious hot, sun and miserable, cold rain. A month of busy-ness and gadding about. Hence the blog has stalled again - I really need to have a consistent plan for posting - I just can't stick to anything at the moment!
So now there is a backlog of about 6 posts and I better get on with it
Earlier in the month my mum came to stay and the challenge was on to find some new gardens to her. Every time she comes we visit 2 or 3 and we've been here 10 years now but finding new places to visit is never too difficult.
Our first visit was to Enys gardens in Penryn.
Famed for it's Bluebell Festival in April (it has one of the largest and oldest bluebell meadows in the country - the Lye) I have never been in the summer before so wasn't quite sure what to expect.
We wandered round the woodlands and past the Lye, now just meadow grasses and wildflower seedheads, past the lush ponds to the stumpery...
which in April is stark and bare but now is festooned with ferns - and on through the gate into the flower garden...
where there was an explosion of colour and lushness with drifts of Crocosmia, towering Phormium and tropical Banana Palms...
Alchemical Mollis, Eryngium and grasses.
Insects were rampaging about busily, including red Soldier Beetles, Meadow Brown butterflies and Banded Bumblebees...
Roses, Astrantia and Rogersia flowers burgeoned...
and texture was added by the veined and ridged leaves of an Acer/Sycamore (!?! suggestions please, it was beautiful)...
and the cloudiness of a Cotinus living up to its common name of the smoke bush.
Paths led this way and that, some bright and colourful, some lush and green.
Outside the flower garden we strolled through lush and mossy woodland again to the long walk...
with borders full of drifts of purple and white against the lovely old wall.
There were Cardoons, Verbena Bonariensis, Echinacea, Geraniums, Marguerite Daisies, Lamiums and tall, stately Echinops, all interspersed with grasses...
beautifully restful after the riot of colour in the walled garden.
There was a Food Jam event going on in front of the house - a riot of smells with street food stalls from far and wide. We didn't join in...
but wandered around the decrepit house that is being slowly restored.
Then home for tea, although we could have availed ourselves of the tea room there, the rest of the family were waiting at home.
Enys was a lovely summer surprise, and I will certainly add it to my year round itinerary. There are also lots of events, craft fairs, exhibitions and performances.
Visit their site here: Enys Gardens
These boots haven't seen much gardening - they could almost be mine!!!
xx
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