30 Wildlife Friendly Plants for Your French Garden
Want to invite more birds, butterflies, and bees into your garden? Here are the plants and flowers that will encourage biodiversity …
Gardening in France
Inspiration, tips and adviceGood to know
Grow your own vegetables in France
There’s nothing like the pleasure of eating vegetables fresh from your own garden. The flavour and texture far exceed anything you can buy in a shop. Growing vegetables is also a natural incentive to to spend time outdoors. It is not necessary to have a large space to begin a vegetable garden, you can start one with just a few pots.
Between a rock and a hard place
Award-winning designer James Besson shows us how a garden can thrive in an unlikely setting in the south of France.
Growing herbs indoors this winter
Another way to start a winter herb garden indoors is to move plants from your garden into your kitchen, says gardening topic host Elaine Jarvis.
Gardening Glossary
A handy list of common terms in French on gardening, plants, and tools.
Need some more plants?
Image not found.One of the joys of gardening is seeing your garden grow in sheer numbers of plants that you have produced yourself. Obviously there is always the time and …
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