Peonies and Strawberries!

A Corgyncombe Country Garden!

The beautiful summer weeks have been full of goat tending, weeding, and harvesting.

Sometimes the only times we have to work on our Corgyncombe Courant blog is during rainy days, if it's not thundering. This year's peony season passed all too quickly as the rain poured forth with so much abundance that their beauty was short-lived.
The photographs above and below were taken several years ago.


Peonies gathered in a basket on the huge stone step.


Fresh strawberries and Tasha Tudor Welsh Breakfast Tea.


At Corgyncombe there are lovely wild Columbines that come in white, pink, and purple-blue.


A luscious bouquet of fresh cut peonies to enjoy with afternoon tea.
Diane's grandmum called peonies, pineys. 'Tis an old fashioned term.


Diane found an old copy of English Flower Garden at an old bookstore.
The cover with the gilt flowers reflects the candlelight.
In the front are words by William Wordsworth:

"Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting; and its object, like that of all the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under the control of good sense. If this be so when we are merely putting together words or colours, how much more ought the feeling to prevail when we are in the midst of the realities of things; of the beauty and harmony, of the joy and happiness of living creatures; of men and children, of birds and beasts, of hills and streams, and trees and flowers, with the changes of night and day, evening and morning, summer and winter, and all their unwearied actions and energies." - Wordsworth


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