Tresco Abbey Gardens

Last week I had the incredibly good fortune to spend three days in brilliant sunshine on the Isles of Scilly.  There are lots of reasons to go to the Scillies (white sand beaches, cystar clear turquoise seas, island life) but none more so than to visit the Tresco Abbey Gardens.  The Gardens benefit from exceptional hours of sunshine and the warming effect of the Gulf Stream, both of which provide the perfect growing conditions for an exceptional variety of plants.  The photos speak for themselves...



Agapanthus growing wild on Tresco



Tresco Abbey Gardens

The Gardens are inspiring in their use of shape, and texture as much as in their use of colour

Sunlight streaming through a palm



Aeoniums galores!



The Tresco Children by David Wynne



A bank of agapanthus

The Cutting Garden

(poppies, rudbeckia, echinacea and sweet peas)

The Vegetable Garden



Campanion planting: tomatoes and marigolds



A Tresco gardener with flowers from the cutting garden for one of the rooms

 

Oenothera and agapanthus growing wild on the shoreline