Retour au Jardin Plume, Normandy
I first visited Jardin Plume in June this year and it was beautiful. On my return in September, I could see the garden now wearing its late summer clothes. The […]
The Shamrock Hydrangea Collection, Normandy
Early in September I visited the Shamrock Hydrangea collection in Varengeville-sur-mer near Dieppe in Normandy. In this two hectare garden, husband and wife team, Corinne and Robert Mallet exhibit the […]
The Seven Deadly Sins – Festival International des Jardins at Chaumont-sur-Loire
The theme of this year’s Festival International des Jardins at Chaumont-sur-Loire is the Seven Deadly Sins, which are usually given as wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Every year, […]
St Jean de Beauregard – La Fête des Plantes d’Automne
The Château of Saint Jean de Beauregard, just south-west of Paris, hosts a plant fair twice a year in spring and autumn. Along with the Les Journées des Plantes at […]
La Grande Maison, a permaculture potager in le Perche
On our way back to Paris from our summer holiday in Brittany, we stopped for the night at this former farm, now a chambre d’hôte set in the beautiful rolling […]
Les Jardins de Maizicourt, Picardy
In the grounds of a small early 18th century chateau near Abbeville in the Somme, Catherine Guevenoux has created a series of beautiful gardens. She aquired the chateau in a […]
Peter’s Paradise – A London Detour
This blog post is not in Paris or even in France, but as my friend, Landscape Designer Peter Beardsley, opened his beautiful private garden to the public this summer, I […]
