Well done Busy. Are you in an Open Garden scheme or part of a garden club that gets you known?
I have friends here who open their garden for the Belgian equivalent of the Yellow Book and that has led to them being used as a regularly featured garden on Jardins Loisirs - Belgium's GW programme on RTBF - and they also get groups of visitors from gardening, horticultural and flower arranging clubs in Belgium, France, Netherlands and Italy. Currently averaging one group a week which I would find tiring but they're not expected to do tea and biscuits.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Obelixx, it is a fairly new Open Garden Scheme for France (started by English).
http://www.opengardens.eu/ but the new website has had some teething problems! They are hoping it will turn out like the yellow book and the Embassy in Paris has even offered to open their garden.
On my Open Day on Sunday I did tea and cake and plant sales.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
As for Swiss Sue and DD, hard luck! Because of French inheritance laws the house is partly owned by my children who don't want to sell it! 'Tis a bit worrying though because I'm getting older and the house is too big.
Same here Lizzie, never leave your half of your house to Spouse, always in trust for the children. Now my mum has died I have her half of this property, I need to quickly will it to my children.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Sounds good Busy. We have to explore more of the Charente this July now that OH has ruled out Angoulême and La Prèze as suitable home golf courses. Need to check out the Napoleonic code stuff too. Wherever we end up it's good to know there will be gardeners about to share info and plants.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Congratulations BL - I have always thought you had a fantastic garden & now it sounds as though you are one of the best ambassadors they could wish to have for this new event - hope it goes from strength to strength.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Oh my Lizzie, what a fantastic garden. I've seen a few pics of it before and loved it then but these ones are amazing, it is totally beautiful, you must be so proud. Gorgeous house too. I am glad your open day went well and hope and your family are all well xx
Your garden looked gorgeous and glad you had a brilliant and successful day. I bet everyone loved it. Well jel of matty coming to stay and help you, sounds like you had a lovely time
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Tea and biscuits, Lily Pilly! They've all just gone. Sold some more plants.
Well done Busy. Are you in an Open Garden scheme or part of a garden club that gets you known?
I have friends here who open their garden for the Belgian equivalent of the Yellow Book and that has led to them being used as a regularly featured garden on Jardins Loisirs - Belgium's GW programme on RTBF - and they also get groups of visitors from gardening, horticultural and flower arranging clubs in Belgium, France, Netherlands and Italy. Currently averaging one group a week which I would find tiring but they're not expected to do tea and biscuits.
Obelixx, it is a fairly new Open Garden Scheme for France (started by English).
http://www.opengardens.eu/ but the new website has had some teething problems! They are hoping it will turn out like the yellow book and the Embassy in Paris has even offered to open their garden.
On my Open Day on Sunday I did tea and cake and plant sales.
Same here Lizzie, never leave your half of your house to Spouse, always in trust for the children. Now my mum has died I have her half of this property, I need to quickly will it to my children.
Sounds good Busy. We have to explore more of the Charente this July now that OH has ruled out Angoulême and La Prèze as suitable home golf courses. Need to check out the Napoleonic code stuff too. Wherever we end up it's good to know there will be gardeners about to share info and plants.
Congratulations BL - I have always thought you had a fantastic garden & now it sounds as though you are one of the best ambassadors they could wish to have for this new event - hope it goes from strength to strength.
Thank you, Topbird.
Oh my Lizzie, what a fantastic garden. I've seen a few pics of it before and loved it then but these ones are amazing, it is totally beautiful, you must be so proud. Gorgeous house too. I am glad your open day went well and hope and your family are all well xx
Sorry for late posting BL, just catching up
Your garden looked gorgeous and glad you had a brilliant and successful day. I bet everyone loved it. Well jel of matty coming to stay and help you, sounds like you had a lovely time
Hope you have a good trip over here this week x
Thank you Beaus Mum