This week with a couple of friends we went to visit the Jardins de Kerfouler… and we loved our visit! I can recommend those gardens without reservation. Les Jardins de Kerfouler is a garden of inspiration boasting a range of garden styles, e.g.: modern, artistic, classic, natural, romantic, exuberant, modest,…
Planted this year 2 specimens of Physostegia virginiana ‘Bouquet rose’. The name obedient plant comes from the odd fact that the flower-heads, when moved from their usual position, stay put instead of springing back as most flowers would. Grab the middle vertical line and drag it to the left or…
There are less and less interesting insects about, so it’s kind of re-assuring to spot them in the garden. They are not all as nice-looking or friendly to the plants, but here there are… Click on the thumbnails to view the larger images.
At the moment the East mixed border is all in flowers. Click on the thumbnail to the left to view the complete legend of its plants.
A month ago a couple of stupid pigeons made their nest in the akebia quinata covering my pergola. Nothing elaborate in fact, just a rudimentary platform; nothing to be proud of. And of course what was bound to happen did happen a couple of weeks ago, one of the pair…
Last week-end Papi Joe’s Garden took part in the “Welcome to my garden in Brittany” scheme for the first time. We had 170 visitors over the week-end of June 10th-11th. Almost as many visitors as the number of plant species in the garden (176 species to-date). The weather was perfect,…