Sanctuary Cornwall
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Award winning off grid, sustainably built eco B&B & meeting space, set in its own nature reserve overlooking the Fowey Estuary. Switch off, relax & recharge..
Golant, Cornwall
Joined October 2017
A little film to cheer up the miserable day - thanks to Rob Butterworth, who stayed with us in the summer for the drone footage.. it’s great to show the Sanctuary in the landscape... #offgrid #carbonneutral @CornwallAONB @GreenTourismUK @tevicornwall @FoweyInfo
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Me too, as much as I can lay my hands on - although don’t believe the myth that it deters slugs - mine march straight over - or under it!
I've tried wool as mulch, brilliant, wish I could get more
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Looks like a map of Cornwall!
Lovely to see in my local woods today, Uncommon Slime Mould Arcyria ferruginea, which holds a Reddish Pink colour, looking like Salmon eggs. Also present more common Trichia decipiens, stays Orange on White stalks @WoodlandTrust @s4r4h_l #myxomycetes #SlimeMoldSunday
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Absolutely stunning!
Ok, so I'm probably a wee bit biased, but I LOVE my daughter's foxes! 🧡
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I have one outside, which explains why it has never fruited! Chilean guavas on the other hand are plentiful….
Feijoa / Acca sellowiana, Fruit salad, Pineapple guava, hardy but needs the warmth under cover to flower & fruit, as luscious as strawberry when full ripe, superb!
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That’s what I have, Alpine strawbs - prolific in a bed by the kitchen, still fruiting outdoors, and settling themselves in gravel too….have Mara des bois, also still doing well - might bring some of each undercover for next year!
Alpine strawberries, Alexandria allegedly, in hanging bucket in poly tunnel, still fruiting fairly well, next to it Mara des bois still cropping but mould now gets the berries just as before ripen
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I have to write notes/take pics in the season or I would never remember where they were needed come planting time!
To show you how much of a monumental loser I am - here’s a sample of the PowerPoint presentation spring-me made for autumn-me to refer back to for allium gap filling. So that’s my job this afternoon since the bulbs have arrived.
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And me! And to think I used to look on Dahlias as ‘boring’! 🫢
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What a good idea! 👏👏👏
Evening all. Potager carrots grown in 2 roof ridge tiles I strap together & fill with sieved compost, I also like the structure they add to the beds. Seems to work....
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I thought my few remaining cavolo neros were toast, but they are happily growing again and giving us greens again! I did read somewhere that most brassicas are perennial, but we have become used to growing them as annuals?
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Mine are nowhere near as beautifully arranged, but dahlias and chrysanthemums still going strong - and a 2nd appearance of Jasmine ‘clotted cream’….
The sun is shining and we’re in the pink for Cut Flower Friday brought to you this week courtesy of Cosmos ‘Dazzler’ and ‘Candyfloss Pink Sunrise’, Verbena bonariensis and Antirrhinum ‘Apple Blossom’. 🤗 #CutFlowerFriday
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We’ve been doing tasting sessions - we have about 80 new varieties, so very excited to taste test each one!
bake whole and compare
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Yep…….glad it’s not just me! Got fed up of looking at loads of green tomatoes all summer!
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Except for slugs…….inside I have more control over them, otherwise they just don’t survive…
I’m starting to think lifting dahlias is a bit of an unnecessary myth - I never lifted any in London and they were all stronger in the ground. Those we grow in heavy wet clay-loam on an exposed site in Yorkshire survive outside too.
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We had about 24 on our newish tree, and I was very excited…..until the tree rats found them……
had a large drop of immature walnuts, still plenty left but these also not swelling as it's been so dry for so long here though so wet elsewhere
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Beautiful - a wren took over our swallow nest earlier in the year - by building a bracken ‘extension’ on the top! Luckily for the swallows, mrs wren was not impressed at the alterations!
As the amazing first day of open studios draws to an end here is a shaky snippet of hand held film of the icon I’m painting at the moment. The nest builder. Male Wrens build several if not three or four nests for the female to choose from (high maintenance females)
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Actually, that’s a good way of putting it - I love baking but by the end of the day have lost inspiration and energy to cook dinner - if I have more time it’s fine!
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Lucky you’re a bloke - for a gal we can get bras full as well🤣
You know you’ve been cutting hedges when all your pockets and hair are full of leaves and twigs.
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Ok….does anyone know if @edfenergy are contactable? They cancelled our account, gave us a shortened new one, which has run out, and we can’t get any help or switch because they have not added us to the national database - 3 years ago!
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That gave me a shock - thought I recognised that mug..🤣 talking about the dog, obvs……our guests love the products especially with the local connection. Just wish it was easier to get hold of wholesale wise….
Meet our partner farmers: The Whells Family! Martin & Bridget live at Leyonne, a farm near Fowey, where they manage a milking herd of 400 cows. They are part of a family partnership with Hedley and Barbara, Martin’s parents, who live near Luxulyan and manage a herd of 230 cows.
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