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ChĆ¢teau de Miromesnil
The next day we started the trip properly and our first visit was to ChĆ¢teau de Miromesnil. Itās 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.Ā I have loved great kitchen gardens since my first visit and the one at Miromesnil is a truly wonderful classic potager. I saw it thenĀ 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 vƤnner i Finland. BOVarna, for short, is a very nice gardening club that Iāve 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! Ā We started out with Giverny, which Iād rather have dropped from the agenda, but some people who had not been there before wanted to see it, so we went there anyway. Donāt get me wrong, Giverny can be beautiful and Claude Monetās paintings are for sure, itās just that the garden is one of the worst tourist traps I…
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Summer Social
This past summer was very work filled and I only had time to take a little bit of time off. I wasnāt prepared to sacrifice hanging out with some of my friends that normally live abroad (Berlin, Istanbul, Mumbai and Shanghai, so not very conveniently close) so my time off was either spent with them or at a few crucial summer events.. Turns out you canāt cure a gardener, so a few of them had some garden related touches. In the first picture: Watering a swiss chard plant I had donated to a āPlant Tramā event that was arranged in August and September in Helsinki. At first the plants that…
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Rainy Days
Some years ago when we had horrible droughts, I swore I would never complain about rain. Iām not sure I made the distinction āduring the summerā, but that was my intention. I didnāt complain about the rain this summer either, it was very nice to see everything grow with such vigor and Iām looking forward to some nice flowering next spring. For example the azaleas, the rhododendron and my magnolias all look like they have set a record amount of buds. So that is excellent, however, this autumn rain that we have had in the last weeks is getting a bit old. It is very wet and there are some…
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Forced Inside
Itās really raining too much for digging so Iām back inside again. Itās been a very busy summer and I had to take a break from blogging.Ā The summer has been filled with gardening and Iāve seen a lot of gardens and flowers and as the fall goes on I imagine Iāll have time to share some pictures. Iāve 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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