Instant screen - St Nicolas de Bourgeuil

Objective: to create a seasonal screen - floral & scented to provide a place for a quiet drink & to relax in privacy in summer.

The garden is set in amidst the vines and so will allow uninterrupted views of the delightful views between late autumn and early spring.

Clematis, Honeysuckle, Sweet pea & convulvulous (morning glory) to cover the wires.

Verbena Bonariensis, Achillea ' Gold Plate' 'Cerise Queen', Hemerocalis Day Lilies, Michaelmas Daisies to provide low maintenance long flowering in hot dry summer at the base of the climbing plants.

Favier - the hour of Pivoines/Peonies :D

Plants either grown on or raised at les Limornieres - ready for their new home..

New home in need of pruning weed and soil enriching...

Previously the bed was mostly empty aside from the mature climbing plants on the south facing wall.

Now weeded, dug over and compost added we left it for a couple of weeks to allow any further seedlings to sprout. These were hoed and then planting began..

Paeonies (Lovely Louise x 6) were planted here - another 10 various colours & varieties in existing beds around the grounds.

To this bed and to the others we added - Papavers, pink and white varieties,gaura lindheimi, nepeta, sedum, iris siberica, macedonia knautia, cerinthe major, heuchera.

To ensure full floral display for a big get together in June perennial and annual plants have been added throughout the garden and we have plans to add more nearer the big day for a spectacular display.

Existing leggy perovskia plants surrounding the pool which we have pruned to ensure plentiful flowers on well shaped compact plants.