spring
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Parc du Bois des Moutiers
This gorgeous house was originally created by the famous English architect Edward Lutyens and the park was influenced by Gertrude Jekyll. It’s in the Arts and Crafts style that the pair represented. The park is 12 hectares and it’s situated on a slope towards the sea. The gardens near the house and more formal and towards the sea there are beautiful woodland areas with a lot of Rhododendron, rare trees and azaleas. It is truly a stunning place! The pergola Lovely Viburnum Beautiful Rhododendron And a sweet azalea.
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Château de Miromesnil
The next day we started the trip properly and our first visit was to Château de Miromesnil. It’s a beautiful castle with a splendid kitchen garden. It is also one of the places I visited when I was a student and went to Normandy for the first time. On that trip I stayed with my godmother who lives in Normandy for almost half the year. I have loved great kitchen gardens since my first visit and the one at Miromesnil is a truly wonderful classic potager. I saw it then in August so it was a little different to see it in May this time. Interesting though, this time around it…
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Waiting for the Growing Season
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Giverny
I visited Normandy last spring with some people from Blomsterodlingens vänner i Finland. BOVarna, for short, is a very nice gardening club that I’ve belonged to for several years. My mother is also a member and among the members I have several good friends and my best gardening friends for sure! We started out with Giverny, which I’d rather have dropped from the agenda, but some people who had not been there before wanted to see it, so we went there anyway. Don’t get me wrong, Giverny can be beautiful and Claude Monet’s paintings are for sure, it’s just that the garden is one of the worst tourist traps I…
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Forced Inside
It’s really raining too much for digging so I’m back inside again. It’s been a very busy summer and I had to take a break from blogging. The summer has been filled with gardening and I’ve seen a lot of gardens and flowers and as the fall goes on I imagine I’ll have time to share some pictures. I’ve been using Instagram so here is a sneak peek and a little collage of a few pictures. Most of my gardening pictures have the hashtag #aplantaday which no one else seems to be using right now. There are more pics in the new sliding sidebar on the left! In the first…
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Out in the Garden
I’m spending all my free time in the garden now that the evenings are so light so I’ve not really had time to blog. It’s funny, since there would be a lot to blog about! Well, there was a bit of rain, so I’ll have time to share a few pictures 🙂 Kaikki vapaa aikaa menee tällä hetkellä puutarhassa. Illat ovat niin valoisia, joten puutarhassa menee niin kauan, etten ole ehtinyt blogata. Se on hiukan hassua, koska nyt aiheita riittäisi! Pieni sadekuuro antaa nyt kuitenkin sen verran aikaa että ehdin näyttää pari kuvaa 🙂 All ledig tid går åt i trädgården för tillfället. Kvällarna är så ljusa att det går så…
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