From French cornfield to English garden

From French cornfield to English garden

Decorative and kitchen gardens

The drive and its borders laid out, it was time to move on. next would have to be a potager. Big enough to provide vegetables and soft fruit to last us all year and indulge Edmund's love of growing varieties from all over the world.

Rows and rows of vegetables

Watermelons as big as a dog

And while we still have land and time to spare let's start the "Blue Garden" using all shades of blue and pink.

The blue garden in 1996

The blue garden 5 years later

The rose garden was planted with over 200 different species, both ancient and modern, to provide colour and cut flowers throughout the summer.

The rose garden

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From French cornfield to English garden
First page	The birth of English country garden
	Decorative and kitchen gardens
Last page	The work goes on


FR37.net	FR37 front page Full table of contents
Touraine tales	The creeping thistle It's quince jam, or so they say The reluctant English valet
Craftsmen	Patrick Boutet - Basket weaver The Touraine nutcracker James Gassiot - the Chateau de Rys
Nature	Wild orchids in our garden From French cornfield to English garden
Memories	Farmall H tractor 1948, a child's plaything
The wide world	Vietnam smiling
Touraine links	Links index

Edith Leconte	Edith Leconte's painting
Cleo Tebby, a young artist	Around the Château du Grand Pressigny The streets of Le Grand Pressigny
Mozart, the St Bernard	Mozart, the St Bernard Mozart - a dog's life in Le Grand Pressigny Mozart - countryside walks

Wild orchids in our garden