Cornish Pick and Mix

Sometimes I find myself taking only one or few photos of a place or subject. Not that they weren't of any interest whatsoever but more often I get caught up in a flurry of other thoughts and activities at that time that I forget to take any more than just a few snaps. These few photos are good enough to share but not plenty enough to make a stand alone blog post about them. 

Sort of a photo 'pick and mix', an odd selection of different things but good enough to combine with each other. And whilst browsing through the photos we took whilst in Cornwall May of last year I found several of these 'odd and few' photos and I'm combining then in just one post. A Cornish Pick and Mix I'll call them....
Some newly delivered Trachycarpus fortunei palms that we spotted at Trevena Cross Nursery, waiting to be potted on or perhaps delivered on to their clients. Quite interesting and fascinating to see them bound and lined up this way. Mind you I do like the color of that wall! A line up, now which one of them is the odd one?? The fernery section at Trevena Cross Nursery. I do love this bit, they usually have so many rare and unusual tree ferns to choose, and of different sizes too. When Cornwall was also hit by the nasty winter 2010-11 winter this nursery was not spared and they suffered extensive losses and damages to their stock, including their ferns. Some of the rarer and unusual ferns that they used to have were either killed or severely damaged and for awhile their stocks were limited to either hardy ground ferns of the more common Dicksonia antarctica. This year though it looked like they have started to regain their previous stocking level and variety. Burncoose Nursery, one of my favorite Cornish nurseries and always worth a long browse for they have so many treasures all over their huge site. 

One of the retail polytunnels at Burncoose. Seems to go on forever doesn't it? Make sure you browse well and carefully, you might miss out on a gem amongst the crowd!

Cornwall, such a beautiful part of the world! Sometimes it's best to just ignore the map and drive randomly and aimlessly, you're bound to see pretty things along the way...

They say Cornwall can get heaving with people during the main tourist season but time your visit well and you may find an entire stretch of beach all to yourself (almost anyway), bliss!

Mark :-)