Most of my posts reporting on our week’s holiday in Pembrokeshire will be about places we visited especially gardens and woodland walks. So I thought it would be a good idea to feature the cottage and the plants around it for change!
This beautiful stone cottage started its life as a corrugated ironclad cowshed. It had been renovated to such a high standard throughout. It gave us a warm and comfortable week.
There were four such conversions around a gravel courtyard which by looking at the plants surrounding it must at one time have been an inviting garden. We liked the way self-seeding plants were decorating the grey gravel most of which were Verbena bonariensis and Welsh poppies ( Meconopsis cambrica) in an impressive range of yellows and oranges.
Blue glossy pots were home to the brightest begonias while larger terra cotta or blue glazed pots were full of foliage shrubs and perennials.
The stonework of the cottage in its beautiful range of colours provided a suitable background for anything that grew or was placed in front of it.
To the left of the cottage, near where we parked the car, was a neglected and overgrown hedge and border, which would have once been quite attractive. There were clues to its past when we explored it.
A old overgrown hedge provided the boundary between the cottage area and the countryside. There were once again signs of former glory.
The final two photographs look over the wall and hedge to the wider countryside beyond. Beautiful lichen grew along the top of a fence and an old stone bird bath was trying to hide in the hedge.
We were delighted with our accommodation and are looking to return in the spring!
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