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A New Path
Winter and early Spring is the perfect time for hard landscaping in the garden It maybe to cold to plant but it is the best time to re-asses the framework of the garden. We wanted to create a more...
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Garden Update – Spring 2019
Four and a bit years ago we moved into Penraevon. It was the middle of December and snow was threatening. We knew the house needed ‘a bit of renovation’, but also that it had a big garden that was...
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Summer Garden 2019
It is so wonderful to slowly begin to have some more established plants. Many experienced gardeners would look on with envy at our bare plot nothing but grass and mature trees, but we were a bit...
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Linseed Paint Good or Bad?
You know how it is, you are looking at Instagram, and up pops an advert. This one was for Linseed paint. I am intrigued by linseed, keep debating using it on our old quarry tiles. The linseed paint...
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Mice and The Butler’s Pantry
There is water coming through the living room ceiling! The plumber was called to investigate. The problem was that mice had nibbled their way through the shower flexible waste return. MICE! we have...
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Late Summer Garden 2019
It’s that time of the year when the sun is lower in the sky, the light becomes magical and spiders webs appear from nowhere, stretching between stems. It’s been a year of planting and growing and the...
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Beds, beds, beds and more beds
So, as predicted the number of beds in the main garden has increased (see above). We’re now really aiming for this part of the garden to be mostly, well, garden and minimal lawns. It’s come along way...
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Beautiful Perennial Garden design
What is perennial garden design? Perennial garden design refers to a type of planting but also a way of ensuring your garden looks good all year and hopefully for years to come. It should please you...
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Jack The Lad
Jack the lad Here is the story of one of the previous owners of Penraevon. He is Jack Foreman and lived here with his wife Sadie Foreman. (If you are related to them or knew them I would love to hear...
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Penraevon and Barbara Hepworth
We got a message the other day from a relative of one of the people who used to live in our house. Her gran lived here as a schoolgirl before going to art college. We knew about Margaret as we had her...
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