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Anemone blanda Anemone blanda (“Grecian windflower” or “Balkan anemone”) may be an unpresuming little flower but it is far from being bland. As soon as the spring sun comes out in March and throughout April it makes for very pretty…
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The Orchard
This garden had been an orchard once upon a time. There was a cherry plum (prunus cerasiferus) that had created its own little forest, damaging the garden wall in the process. A big old fruit tree of unknown kind that…
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Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Unsung heroes of the dry garden Ceratostigma plumbaginoides – the “blue-flowered leadwort” – is a native from Western China. It grows and grows, unfettered by heat or drought, and blooms from June through September in a very beautiful bright blue…
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Linum
Pretty little flowers, as green manure or as perennials. Linum usitatissimum Sown in the fall of 2022 as green manure it covered wide swathes in the garden in dainty little blue flowers during May of 2023. Pretty but not very…
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Centranthus ruber
A pretty plant that comes in its original reddish pink tone, a brighter pink, as well as in white (Centranthus ruber albus). It’s fairly heat and drought resistant with occasional deep watering. It is supposed to bloom from May through…
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Wildflowers & Weeds
I have never seen as many different flowering weeds as I have here in the South of France – within my garden and also on my walks around the villages or in the garrigue. They provide great inspiration and ideas…