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Happy Christmas
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Having had an incredibly busy year designing gardens I’m going to enjoy a Christmas break with my family. Cooking for eleven on the big day! Will be back to designing and creating planting plans in the New Year.
This image is from a window in our village church here in Ryton which FOSACRAG have at last made sound by completing the repairs…
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Idle Thoughts..
For us here at Trevose, there is nothing more rewarding than welcoming repeat guests back to our house. We appreciate that where we are located, in such a beautiful seaside town, means there are plentiful accommodation choices. Subsequently, when a familiar face choses to revisit us, we are not only flattered and excited to welcome them back, it resonates that the experience we set out to deliver is somewhat achieving, making it that little bit more worthwhile!
One special individual who shares the same fondness and enchantment for the town as we so do, is our long-standing repeat guest Stephen. Stephen, a retired architect whose profession saw him travel all over the world particularly the Middle East, settled in Bloomsbury London in 1971, but having loving ties to St Ives regularly makes the 300 mile journey down South.
This week marked Stephens third time staying at Trevose Harbour House this year, but as he recalls it, his ’thirteenth’ time staying with us since we began.
It is not only Stephens consciousness, love of food and openness to converse with anybody he may be sitting next to at the breakfast table that we adore. What is so magical about every time we have the pleasure of welcoming Stephen back to our house, is the light in his eyes that illuminates as soon as he steps through the front door. Stephen you see, is fortunate enough to experience what we here at Trevose experienced whilst relocating down to St Ives, the magic and charm of the town.
Stephens journey to St Ives concluded in the early hours of Thursday morning via the Paddington- St Erth Great Western Sleeper Service. We were fortunate enough, over an afternoon brew of warm goats milk, to hear a first hand account of his arrival and first day back explorations. Written in his very own words, we wanted to use this opportunity to share this unique extract of Stephens’ magical narrative, and thank him for always bringing charisma, integrity and imaginativeness to the house upon every visit.
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St Ia - An open letter on a day in the life: Idle ideas in this mid-season of mellow fruitfulness.
Red eye shuttle: Chocolat chaud served by cherpy barista Monsieur Neil from his iconic mid-60s InterCity bistro. Original and genuinely stained Kenneth Grange dining car furnishing - nice.
An interesting wash basin where the prospect of doing anything more exciting than brushing your teeth is a bit of a challenge.
Nous sommes arrivé. Sun rising above a silhouetted pile of distressed tyres at St Erth. Change set and the sun escapes again through another crack in the cloud over the glistening, post-tidal pools of Lelant saltings. Change set yet again and it is hanging low and misty yellow illuminating a patchwork of Celtic fields stacking up the hill behind Porthkidney dunes.
Celebrate the beginning of the day with breakfast chatter over a too good to be true pain perdu.
Mount Zion can’t be bothered with elevenses this morning. Mocha at the other Caf with a heavily therapeutic view of Porthmeor beach. Promenade: high surf; low music. Even lower skill set amongst amateur floaters.
Up the hill, bleary eyed and ragged tailed. A rather nice fish pie for lunch followed by the inevitable pile of zs on the deck. The ever-present prospect of reality. Pooped.
Escape: hot, frothy goat and Oliviero’s banana cake animated by excitable, frothy conversation. Tell me an amazing story and wonder… and wonder again. I like that story.
Rapid-fire sunset chased by a neatly dissected half slice of sparkling white moon floating provocatively over the harbour. Halloween pumpkins and silver haired witches flirting here and there… and everywhere. The gods are angry.
Porthminster Caf: excessive, singular grey hair density tonight with an over display of sensible M&S frocks and crumpled corduroy. Boring. Think food.
Something very decadent and appealing in the form of the caviar-clad egg, sculpturally embedded in the haddock and clam chowder. To wonder at the spirit of the immediacy of its creation: too beautiful to eat yet too destructive the pleasure of its consummation.
Then to wonder again at how exciting can be the pleasures of the flesh. Naked cauliflower as it might never have been imagined: saffron pickled, baked and puréed with an over-excited dribble of pesto. Visually another delight.
Chocolat chaud is far superior to dessert: au naturel, sans crème.
Over indulged and satiated.
Stefano x
We also delight in the experience of staying at Trevose. We were charmed to also make the acquaintance of Stephen at the Old Customs House Wishing you all well.
Plant of the Day Saturday 9 June 2018
Iris ‘Before the Storm’ (tall bearded iris) Is claimed to be one of the darkest flower colours produced by the irises. The parents of this cultivar were Iris ‘Superstition’ and Iris ‘Raven’s Roost’ creating this almost black bloom with a slight fragrance. It is a clumping-forming, herbaceous perennial with grey-green strap-like leaves. This specimen was part of a collection at Myddelton House, Enfield, near London.
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Open Gardens join us and enjoy gardens and home made cakes. If wet weather threatens don the wellies and waterproofs because it will be great fun whatever the weather does.
Cherry Blossom Time
HAPPY EASTER Salix caprea, Pussy willow.
House Plants are back! — Noel’s Garden Blog After many years of being seriously uncool, house plants seem to be back in fashion. My son, more in tune with the zeitgeist than I (after all he lives in Clapton in east London – Clapton-the-new-Brooklyn (but hasten to add is NOT a bearded hipster) has started to pack his windowsills. A few trendy looking… via House Plants are back! — Noel's Garden Blog
Drifts of Snowdrops
Well if you would like to see some stunning snowdrops this garden is abundant with them. Painswick Rococo Garden has them spilling down the hillsides and throughout the forest floor.
Even on a dull day it was beautiful.
Companion planting of coloured Cornus stems and Hellebores mix with evergreen shrubs.
A stunning carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium spreads out beneath the white blooms in some areas,
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Humphry Repton 200
Details regarding celebrations for the 200 anniversary of Humphry Repton via Repton and his business
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Allotment Harvest 2017: the winners and losers An interesting project on home grown fruit and vegetables. Do the results match what you have grown in your own garden?
Winter Gardens
An excellent comment on what to appreciate in the winter garden.
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Last Garden Design for 2017
So pleased to end on a good note with a happy client. The overall design for this garden has been set out so I am ready to complete the more detailed outline plans for the different sections of the garden in the new year. What a wonderful way to start 2018. Sorry for poor photo but you will get the gist. Time to get ready for Christmas!
I hope everyone enjoys a fabulous Christmas and a Happy New…
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Grasses in the Garden An excellent article on www.hauzz.co.uk about using grasses in the garden by Patricia Tyrrell which includes a picture of Stipa gigantea in a garden that I designed.
Win A Copy Of 'Down To Earth' By Monty Don
Win A Copy Of ‘Down To Earth’ By Monty Don
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I was lucky enough to get a guided tour of this new garden festival in Sicily when visiting recently. What a delight. There were not a large number of show gardens but all had been constructed with care and attention to detail and had survived an extremely hot summer. The use of native plants that have been specifically researched and known cultivars which are suitable for the Mediterranean climate were a revelation. One exhibit shows the land map of Italy and its specific flower, fruit, nut and vegetable production particular to regions in the country. The planting had really matured this late in the season so looked far better than my photographs show.
This is a very new site and event and I look forward to the next show in 2019. The UK was well represented this year by Sarah Eberle and James Basson, both well known Chelsea Gold medal winners. The designs were all to a very high standard and the explanations to long for me to give here so check out the website.
It was so quiet, we had the whole place to ourselves. Make a note in your diary for the next event.
Mount Etna in the background, an exceptional tropical house and art installations. A good excuse to visit Sicily.
Stay in one of the Agritourismo Sicily hotels, or move around and try a few as we did. https://www.agriturismo.it/en/farmhouse/sicily
https://www.radicepurafestival.com/festival/gallery/
Radicepura Garden Festival 2017 I was lucky enough to get a guided tour of this new garden festival in Sicily when visiting recently.
Morton Hall gardens, Worcestershire
Morton Hall gardens, Worcestershire
Source: Morton Hall gardens, Worcestershire
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