The Loire Valley and especially Blois
A very late happy new year for 2022! I’ve been in Boston visiting my beautiful 5-month old grandson for the last two weeks and as you can see from the second photo, the view of my son’s back garden taken just after the recent blizzard, is very different from mine. It may be colder in …
Continue reading “Snowdrops & Daffodils – Perce-neiges & Jonquilles”
In case you have wondered where I’ve disappeared to, I’m discouraged by the awful weather and the resurgence of the pandemic just when it was all looking more positive. Maybe it will be like my dahlia – I was very excited when I first started growing four of them from tubers inside the house in …
Our unseasonable weather continues. Our gardening was brought to a halt by the rain and as soon as we got inside it started hailing. Fortunately it was only very small and didn’t last long. All my baby plants seem to have survived. Notre météo étrange continue. La pluie a mis fin à notre jardinage et …
Continue reading “And then there was hail – Et puis la grêle est arrivée”
This was the view from our bathroom window this morning. A promising day until it suddenly started hailing at about 3 pm. I had to madly cover my seed beds and lettuces and put my petunias in the garage. A definite lack of coordination between the weather forecast and the weather gods. Voici la vue …
Sadly, our much-beloved wisteria has suffered from two nights of frost. It doesn’t usually freeze at this stage of growth. The grape vines are in much worse trouble with growers using fans and candles to try and keep the temperature up. Malheureusement, notre glycine bien-aimée a souffert de deux nuits de gel. Le gel n’est …
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Happy Easter! It’s suddenly got cold here but at least it’s sunny. Joyeuse Pacques! Une vague de froid est arrivée mais au moins il y a du soleil.
I posted a photo of an unusual vine cross a couple of weeks ago. Today I visited the cemetery next door and found several crosses of the same type. The weather has got much warmer so we will be able to spend more time outdoors. J’ai publié une photo d’une croix inhabituelle récemment. Aujourd’hui j’ai …
The market in Blois has remained busy despite Covid but today’s temperature of 5 degrees below zero left a lot of empty spaces. Regrettably the oysters were frozen and our regular organic market gardener wasn’t there. The vendor we bought our vegetables from had left his lettuces in his truck and fetched them on demand. …
I don’t know how these tulips will stand up to snow and frost. They seem to be coming up a bit early. This year. Je ne sais pas comment ces tulipes vont supporter la neige et le gel. Elles semblent être sorties un peu tôt cette année.
We woke up to snow this morning and the surprise of seeing three deer in the garden. They are to the right of the tree at the top of the path. The birds came in flocks. I counted about 30 at one stage. The sun came out and melted most of the snow by late …
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