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Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:33 pm Post subject: Brittany garden visits |
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Two gardens today: Jardin Exotique, Roscoff and Jardin George la Salle, Ille de Batz.
Both were well worth seeing. I'm told the planting is reminiscent of that in gardens in the Scilly isles, taking advantage of the extraordinary mildness.
Ille de Batz (pronounced Ba) is a 15 min ferry ride from Roscoff.
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Banana flowers, Ille de Batz |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! Loving these pictures - keep 'em coming.
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Glad you are enjoying them. Mont St Michel tomorrow, which is more of a tourist trip (trap?) In the afternoon, to La Ballue Gardens, which are almost in Normandy.
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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Baaah! Should have went to KS's place.....
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I'd like to go there (Treso and KS's). Meanwhile, if someone would lend me a few granite boulders around Burtonport, I think I could do something interesting with then, having seen Roscoff.
Now, I've a bus to catch.........
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:15 am Post subject: |
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I trust your legs have recovered from Mont St Michel? Plenty of ready salted mutton round there.
_________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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It was amazing. But I've just spent about 35 mins on a post about the days activities and it's all disappeared into cyberspace. Bah!
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Switch it off then on again. Failing that, take battery out and put it in again! Or hit the back button.
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:08 am Post subject: |
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I'll try again:
Mt Ste Michel is amazing. I climbed up through the throngs and the rampant huxtering to find a place of extraordinary spirituality at the top. I guess it was always so.
The gardens at La Ballue are truly remarkable. I'll include a few pics but you'd be better off going to the website. Much of it is a very formal, very modern re-interpretation of the tradition, around a beautiful C17th Manoir. Then there are many smaller gardens each with its own theme. All in shades of green enlivened by white flowers and touches of single colours. Very French, very intellectual!
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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 6:22 am Post subject: |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:22 am Post subject: |
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Not the world's biggest fan of topiary, but that really is excellent. Nothing at all like some of the gloomy lumps of foliage you find in England. Any signs of Box blight? Hope not, it would be such a shame to lose all that hard work.
Keep sending the photo's!
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Box blight is around but this garden seems to have escaped so far. The owner/head gardener is very careful about hygiene, quarantines plants and is conducting a trial on different varieties of box. I think you could say she is obsessional! There is yew, cupressus, beech, thuja and I don't know what else as well as box - all different kinds of green.
I'm no great fan of topiary either, except as an occasional bit of fun, but when you see it done like that.........!
Wait till you see this morning's garden. But you'll have to wait cos I've got to go and eat some nice Breton food. Tee hee!
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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OK don't rub it in! There is a new cafe in Enniskillen - The Happiness Trap. All local, home-cooked, organic etc yumminess. I got a take away mix of salads today - not cheap, but worth every penny. So I envy you your trip but I won't swap my tea!
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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This mornings trip was to Le Grand Launay. My photos don't do it justice - it's the culmination of a couples' work over 40 years. Note the serpents climbing the apple trees in the Garden of Eden!
Sue, the last one is for you.
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