Peppercombe

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COASTGUARD COTTAGE - September 2010

Down the combe to the beach

High key treatment

Stone abstract version

Pebbles on the beach, colour enhanced for effect, if you can see things in the shapes you are normal...

Beach rich with interesting stones

Boulton & Paul bungalow above the meadow also a National Trust property

Knapweed

Meadow sweet

Trefoil

Buttercup with thrips

Bryony

Fishermen's cottages

Lace-cap Hydrangea

Ferns and moss on the porch

Wonderful effect from the net curtains on the window at the Clovelly Visitor Centre

http://www.nationaltrustcottages.co.uk/home?campid=HC2010KWBR

http://www.clovelly.co.uk/visitor_centre.php

Picturesque cottage

Tortoiseshell on the beach

Lifeboat Station and slipway

Very low tide indeed

Harbour at Clovelly

Boats in the sand Clovelly harbour

Weston Super Mare

Big skies and plenty of room

Razor shells

Reflections of the town

Reflections in wet sand

http://www.weston-super-mare.com

DARTMOOR

Vixen Tor at 13.26

I think it looks much more like the Sphinx

Vixen Tor at 17.30

Sedum species

Fox Moth caterpillar

Dartmoor pony

Gorse and heather

Bowerman's nose

another fox moth caterpillar

HARTLAND POINT

The building of Hartland Quay was authorised by Act of Parliament on 7^th December 1586. The bill was sponsored by Sir W Courtenay, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and Sir J Hawkins. It carried on as a busy port for Hartland until the end of the nineteenth century, when the Quay was allowed to break up, and the Atlantic sea scattered the boulders over the shore. The harbour accounts show frequent cargoes of coal, lime and timber and in 1616 lead was landed to repair the roof of St. Nectan’s Church at Stoke.

Lighthouse below the cliff path

The Harbour Master’s house, offices, stables, storerooms and workers’ cottages were converted into an hotel. There is now accommodation for approximately 30 guests, a dining room that seats 80 and two bars. The ‘Wreckers’ Retreat’ bar contains relics from the ‘Green Ranger’ wrecked in 1962, when Hartland men played such a gallant part in rescuing the seven-man crew.

We bought a crow glove puppet not quite as corrupting as an emu.

Abseiling

Samphire on the cliff

Cliffs at Hartland

Exmoor Ponies

Went on to a garden at Elmscott – built round a restored water mill.

Crocosmia solfaterre

Echinacea

Comma on sedum

Old-fashioned rose

Peter and a Gunnera manicata

Another black and white cat

Artificial gerbera at a caf

Just look at this moth and you can name it; it's a snout

Coal tit enjoying the seed and nut mixture

Squirrel turned up smartly for a share of the birds' food. I was very keen on brazil nuts.

Valley of the Rocks

Exmoor tree

Big skies again this time on Exmoor

MARWOOD HILL

Came home via Dr. Smart’s garden at Marwood Hill. It has changed a lot since our last visit about 30 years ago, it is now a garden of trees and shrubs, but still good and we took some pictures. I don’t remember the lakes which were created in 1969, but they must have been there. I remember a stream with astilbes and primulas which is now very much larger with coarser plantings. Some very interesting rodgersias with very dark red leaves. Major plantings of hydrangeas, a dark red purple one ‘Rot shwantz’ and a blue mophead with pale blue and cream colouring. Many eucalypts too some 30ft tall; rather too many trees too close together and more young ones planted between – maybe they plan some culling. Pictures under the button.

Euomis

White lily possibly amaryllis

Actaea - bugbane

Spindleberry

ROSEMOOR

We visited Rosemoor, which has changed massively since being taken over by the RHS. There were loads of insects and we spent a lot of time chasing them around the flowers.