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Chaumont festival preview & courson dreaming. 5/13/2013, 15:08

Last week we were invited to the preview of the Festival of Gardens at Chaumont-sur-Loire. This is surely one of Europe’s must-see events both for landscape / garden design professionals and the amateur enthusiast and runs from 6th April to … Continue reading →...

Discovering new loire valley gardens 4/26/2013, 15:23

Readers of the Garden Design Academy blog will have read that in a previous life I worked as a Royal Gardener at Windsor Palace. For the last two weeks however, I have been teaching and touring with an active Royal … Continue reading →...

Easter weekend: the first cuckoo and the second plant fair. 4/2/2013

Easter was not warm; in fact it has been the coldest March in the north of France since records began. Sheltered from all directions here in the centre of France, even we have had cool nights with temperatures down to … Continue reading →...

The first garden show of the year and other excitements 3/26/2013

As spring takes hold of central France the season is confirmed by a flurry of garden and plant shows, not to mention all the local spring fairs and Easter events coming up at the end of the week. Of course … Continue reading →...

Spring? surely…..? 3/4/2013

It’s a gorgeous sunny day here in the Loire Valley, with temperatures up to 19°C at the (south facing) back of the house and 10°C in the shade at the front, after a frosty start. Hundreds of Canada Geese are … Continue reading →...

France’s great garden trade fair – salon du vegetal 2/20/2013

Yesterday we drove to Angers for the Salon du Végétal, the massive annual exhibition for the garden industry. Unlike many similar trade shows in the UK, plants are particularly strongly represented by a large proportion of the 600 exhibitors. Around … Continue reading →...

It’s seed sowing time again 2/18/2013

After all the fun of selecting new and favourite varieties from the seed catalogues the real work is just starting in greenhouses, airing cupboards and on windowsills: its seed sowing time! Our own efforts began modestly around a month ago … Continue reading →...

Rivers of snowdrops 2/7/2013

Its been wet, very wet, and the River Cher is as high as it can safely be. We walked the dog out to the old mill to see what the flooding looked like and to admire the Snowdrops. This is … Continue reading →...

It’s not spring ‘til the old lady says so. 2/6/2013

I have been consulting the old folks in the village; “I’ve never seen the river so high”, I tell them. “The last flood was in February 2002″, they inform me, and go on to recount the tales of the River … Continue reading →...

Winter interest shrubs 12/11/2012

At this time of year, as I have noted before, any flower in the garden is to be celebrated. In our own, there are a few flowers hanging on valiantly after the summer, but not much evidence of what … Continue reading →...

Just pear-fect! 11/14/2012

I have only rarely grown Pear trees and never with much success, so I was amazed to discover when we started to explore our adopted village in central France, that Europe’s largest private pear collection was held in a plot … Continue reading →...

Early autumn in the loire valley 10/8/2012

It seems just yesterday, and is actually not much more than two weeks ago, that I was swimming in the warm waters of the Mediterranean and eating breakfast on the sun-terrace overlooking the harbour on the presqu’île de Giens. Today … Continue reading →...

Back from provence 10/1/2012

Such a long gap in my writing is almost unheard of, but the preparations for our annual holiday, the holiday itself and all the work awaiting us on our return has kept me very busy indeed. Our journey down took … Continue reading →...