St Michael’s Mount attracts your eye wherever you are in Mounts bay, Cornwall. So it was top of the list of things to do on our family holiday. I was expecting a boat trip as the tide was in, a steep walk up to the castle and fun exploring the ramparts, but I wasn’t ready to be wowed by a garden on this windswept, sea salted island. It was a tropical paradise and we loved it, steep winding paths for boys to explore, amazing beautiful plants so well tended I can honestly say there was not a weed in sight. The Walled Gardens are a fabulous subtle and sophisticated surprise, sandwiched between the exotically planted East and West Terraces. St Michael’s Mounts Gardens have jumped right up there into my all time top ten gardens.
St Michael’s Mount
Pictures of the East and West Terraces
Pictures of the Walled Gardens
Geranium Maderense, a tender perrenial which seems to thrive in West Cornwall
An enormous Aeonium (I think) growing out of a wall
Lotus Berthelotii, I love the firey red colour
A miniture Allium
Aloe Polyphylla, a geometric wonder