Spending part of this hot afternoon reliving, through words and drawings in my journal, and photos, a garden tour of Provence. Seven years have passed, but much of what I recorded regarding the gardens and their creators remains fresh, relevant and so very creative.
Dominique Lafourcade
Les Confines
“people who mix beautiful and useful have done something wonderful”
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Nicole de Vesian
La Louve
from her top 10 tips*:
#7 a garden should be seen seated – use a chair when planning
#8 think in diagonals
*as quoted by Louisa Jones
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Alain-David Idoux
‘sculptor of landscapes’ and ‘land artist’
La Chabaude
…the bench by Alain is “sculpted out of local stone and cement. For the armrests, he took an arch from the door of a dismantled bread kiln on the property, cut it into two pieces, and turned them upside-down.”*
*quoted from Land Art in Provence
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Marc Nucera
‘tree surgeon’ and ‘wood sculptor’
La Verriere
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Monsieur Rolet
La Verriere
organic solution to worms in the olive:
“boil nettles, harvested or purchased, cool and spray on – helps to fight aphids on roses, as well”
(all photographs original – by the author)
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