What strange weather we are having at Sandhill House Bed and Breakfast and the self-catering Tamar Orchard Barn, Cornwall! What a day yesterday - every type of weather you can imagine excluding snow! And the gale force gusts blew the White Marseilles Fig off the back of the house taking the guttering with it! So, hence this rather late blog, having spent the afternoon up a ladder in the lashing rain, cutting the 'sails' off! All sorted now with guttering back in place to.
This stunning rainbow on the margins between the grey raining thunder clouds and the sunshine lit up the meadows in front of the house yesterday morning.
The last of the roses are making a brave stand now although it has to be said we did have roses on the south facing wall with the French window on the Tamar Orchard Barn on Christmas Day last year.
Can anyone tell me what this shrub is? It is just beautiful, has a long flowering range and the scent is just heavenly.
The hydrangeas have been spectacular again with this one being in the
After a bit of TLC this rose on The Tamar Orchard Barn's wall is looking much happier.
I tried to take this picture of the Smoke Bush so that the sunlight showed through the stunning red leaves but sadly my photographic skills are not up to the job.
This is such a pretty rose in the rose garden.
This poor clematis was eaten down to the ground in the self-catering Tamar Orchard Barn's garden, to the point no one knew it was there, but again after some TLC it is flowering in spectacular fashion on the ''dog secure' garden wall.
A sign that dramatic Autumn is on its way!
