This site was designed with the
.com
website builder. Create your website today.
Start Now
  • Black Facebook Icon
  • Black Instagram Icon
  • Home

  • About

  • Blog

  • Garden design

  • Garden coaching

  • Contact

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • All Posts
    • Gardening month by month
    • The ornamental garden
    • Growing fruit and vegetables
    • Birds, bugs and beasties
    • Life in rural France
    • Recipes and seasonal foods
    • The edible garden
    • The Chicken Diaries
    Search
    Mistletoe - this has to be plant of the month
    Sue
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Mistletoe - this has to be plant of the month

    Mysterious mistletoe is prolific in South West France, where I live, and is strongly associated with Christmas. But why? The history of...
    3 views0 comments
    Wear your bleuet with pride
    Sue
    • Nov 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Wear your bleuet with pride

    Plant of the month for November 2021 is the bleuet - or cornflower. It is not in bloom now, but is the flower the French associate with...
    76 views0 comments
    Seven steps to Paradise.
    Sue
    • Jun 8, 2021
    • 4 min

    Seven steps to Paradise.

    Last weekend was Rendezvous aux Jardins in France - an event organised by the Ministére de la culture which is designed to encourage...
    23 views0 comments
    Oh Deer
    Sue
    • May 26, 2021
    • 3 min

    Oh Deer

    This week a vital project has been to tackle the growing problem of deer damage. We have always had a problem with deer because they roam...
    13 views0 comments
    A BLEAK DAY IN APRIL
    Sue
    • May 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    A BLEAK DAY IN APRIL

    It is hard to believe it was mid April. 13 degrees centigrade and a piercing northerly wind, We went to the plant fair at Neuvic sur...
    11 views0 comments
    All the fun of the foire
    Sue
    • May 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    All the fun of the foire

    April 2016 It is that time of year again in France; many small towns hold their ‘foire aux fleures’ or ‘foire aux plantes’ – in other...
    5 views0 comments
    Back to basics
    Sue
    • May 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    Back to basics

    The first thing to understand when taking on a new garden is the soil. Soil character and health are going to determine a big chunk of...
    3 views0 comments
    HAPPY NEW YEAR....AND THE GARDEN HAS MOVED
    Sue
    • May 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    HAPPY NEW YEAR....AND THE GARDEN HAS MOVED

    January 2015 We have moved. We have sold our beloved Blanchet and bought a smaller house (4 400m2 garden) which will be better suited to...
    2 views0 comments

    © 2021 Site created by Jardin Paysan

    • Instagram
    • Facebook