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How to grow irises in France: planting and care guide (opens the original)
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Advice on varieties for sun, shade, pots and ponds for year-round colour There is perhaps no other flower in the garden which comes in such an enormous range of colours as the iris. In Ancient Greek mythology, Iris, daughter of Electra and Thaumas, was the personification of the rainbow. She encompassed all the colours of the spectrum, and iris flowers can be anything from pure white to deepest black, with everything in between. There are some 310 accepted species and irises on almost every cont
Visit an English-style Allier garden (opens the original)
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Explore this colourful garden in Beaune d’Allier through Open Gardens/Jardins Ouverts this September Life doesn’t always take the path we have plotted. As John Lennon sang, it’s what happens when we are busy making other plans. In 2001, Amanda Leroy and her husband Guy Thouroude were getting on with life after raising two children in their native Somme, between Paris and Lille. Amanda was a carer and Guy was a train driver. The household was busy. They decided to look for a little holiday home i
Get that tropical garden feel with some trompe l'oeil planting (opens the original)
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Expert tips on the best hardy exotic plants, with big leaves and layered greenery for an exotic touch Although in the midst of the Dog Days of August you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, mainland France has no actual tropical regions – the DOM-TOMs (overseas departments and territories) are another matter. Despite the sultry days of yet another canicule (heatwave) or the astounding power of monsoon-like summer storms, the climate is not suited to jungle plants. However, in the garden yo
Turning a blank canvas into a garden for all seasons (opens the original)
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Le Grand Bagnol in Haute-Vienne is a beautifully designed all-season garden with colourful borders, rare trees, hydrangeas and winter flowers At Fromental in Haute-Vienne, there is a garden which has been created to give interest and colour all year round. Started in 1994, on land that had been uncultivated for some 11 years, Le Grand Bagnol garden is now full and mature. It surrounds an old farmhouse which was bought and renovated by Annie Specht Carpentier and her husband, Guy. “I was from Hau
How to grow biennials: best flowers for a long-lasting cottage garden (opens the original)
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You will wait for your efforts, but you will be richly rewarded If you are a fairly new gardener, you may not have heard the term biennial as much as annual and perennial. Those categorisations are well understood. Either you sow the seed or buy bedding plants for things which will flower this year (annual) or you invest (time or money) in a more expensive plant which will come back every year (perennial). Biennials are plants which flower the year after they are sown. You plant seeds or small p
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