After a traditional full English cooked breakfast (well you have to spoil yourself on holiday!) we headed over to Hayle Plants. Another visit to a nursery we have blogged about in the past which has now fully settled into its new site just outside Hayle. Jane accompanied by her faithful dog, Rooney gave us the guided tour of the various glasshouses, and we were tempted by any number of interesting and unusual succulents, ferns, arids and others. We chose a fairly modest selection of plants, although intend to pop back anther day and choose a few more.
Today we decided to have a change from plants and gardens (well almost) and went along to the picturesque town of Saint Ives. We have stayed in the town a number of times over the years but realised we hadn't visited in nearly three years, so with the sun out we thought today would be a great day to visit.
I did say "almost" a change from plants and gardens as we visited the Barbara Hepworth Garden. For those who don't know Hepworth was a British sculptor who sadly died in a fire in 1975 at the age of 72.
Although we have visited this garden previously It has never featured on the blog before. These photos are very much a taster and a fuller post will appear in due course.
Back to non-gardening activities and we finally made a visit to Tate St Ives. When we have stayed in St Ives previously a visit to the Tate Gallery had always eluded us as we managed to select the week when the rehang the gallery ahead of the summer season.
I hope the gratuitous architecture shots do not seem too out of place in gardening blog!
The rest of the day was spent soaking up the atmosphere and warmth of the sun!
We haven't yet decided what we are up to tomorrow, but stick around to find out!
Gaz :)
