le Grand-Pressigny - rejuvenation of a village centre garden & courtyard dining 'room'

BEFORE in Autumn 2011

We weeded all existing beds, added compost, over 350 bulbs & perennials including papaver, achillea, verbena, echinops, gaura & more for more colour throughout coming years.

The existing potager was turned over for next years veg & we added lots more compost.

The existing climbing roses, clematis & honey-suckle were pruned to encourage lateral growth back onto their supports.

Photos to follow of our Spring 2012 visits - more perennials & compost added, annual seed & plants. Further pruning & tieing in of climbing plants & and an existing outgrown sandpit is being turned into a fruit & veg bed for the junior residents :D

2012 plans for a potager in St Nicolas de Bourgeuil

The climbing plants did well to establish during the hot & very dry 2011, the annuals have self sown and so promise more of a even screen this year. We were back in March 2012 to prune the honeysuckles & clematis & to help the owners add & sow raised vegetable beds to their garden. http://chezaniagardens.blogspot.fr/2011/04/instant-screen-st-nicolas-de-bourgeuil.html

Photos to follow.