I have been pondering and came up with this…… St Ives is like a US football stadium, only cut down the middle lengthwise. There is the sea on one side and half of the playing field is the beach. The bleachers and stands are the wobbly, wonky, cobbled, twisting lanes that go to the rim. Once you are on the rim you will discover the large parking lot and the cemetery! Then it’s all downhill again, but with less lanes, straight to another albeit bigger beach. With that said, now that you know the layout of St Ives, it was a marvelous weekend for me because some of St Ive’s secret gardens were open for viewing for a charity fundraising! So all is not lost on the garden front!
First, I walked up a Slight hill to see the gardens at the Victorian terraced houses! Let’s go in this gate!
The maroon-wine colored florets look like they are made of wood!
The gardeners in most of these lovely terraced gardens were elderly gents!
Now which overhead line goes to which house? It would be a challenge on that pole!
Some terraces had a garden front and some folks wanted a teeny, tiny space to park their car!
There were several gardens on this lane, but we’ll explore some more on other lanes too! See you in the garden! Enjoy!
How lovely. I haven’t seen a secret garden event advertised since I moved here in 2016. I shall have to keep my eyes open!
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Oh it was really really nice! Small little gardens…….. like mine………. and everyone was so nice. We loved the market too I think it was on Thursday mornings…….we stayed in a little stone cottage on the Main Street going up to the cemetery…….it sits right in the middle of the lane behind the bar and fish shop! Loved it!
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Yes, it is an interesting town, but very hilly! Driving there is a nightmare most of the time, but especially in summer. We tend to avoid it between April and October or go in on the train.
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