Life in a Brittany Garden

This is a bit of a catch up. So much lovely stuff in the garden and further afield that this post will be mainly pictures. So, where to begin? Here’s my constant companion – always on the lookout for cheese – Robin. And a busy Blackbird. I’m not sure how many babies this one was…

I can hardly keep up with the plants, birds and other stuff daily unfurling, flying,singing, growing and generally being Spring-like!

January and February don’t usually find me in the garden, so it’s been fascinating to see plants stirring and stretching and, in some cases, in full bloom. The Snowdrops are normally all but finished when I arrive back… just the pollinated seed heads as testament to flowering. So, an especial pleasure to have seen them…

Before these pictures become just a distant memory here’s a post about an amazing icy experience: freezing rain or ‘pluie verglaçante’. Something I have perhaps seen in the Vosges mountains of Alsace many years ago, but would never have expected in Brittany. Freezing rain is the name given to rain maintained at temperatures below freezing…

On a beautiful, incredibly frosty morning with a pale pink sky that quickly turned powder blue and sun that shone from start to finish. There can have been no better day to have seen the Alignments and Megaliths of Carnac. From October until the end of March the barriers are opened and you can wander…

Before the frost there was the rain. Not so much that it seemed significantly unusual, but the cumulative effects of saturated ground produced these beautiful images of Le Gouffre at Huelgoat. I can’t remember seeing so much water flowing through before… It was impressive and exhilarating to watch! As well as the sheer quantity of…

After so much mildness winter arrived a couple of weeks ago. A bit of a shock to the system as ‘Winter’ has meant wet, rather than super-cold for the past couple of years at least. However, for the last week or so temperatures have been low. At first there was no accompanying sun which was…

Three visits, a week or so apart. Very different. The first in brilliant sunshine and unseasonably mild temperature. The second in greyness, drizzle and cold. The third, today, with mild weather returned but after quite a lot of rain. The Gorge remains gorgeous.  Each time has given me a basketful of Tube Chanterelles.  Every time…

November has been very mild so far. Whether it’s been rainy, windy, calm or sunny the accompanying air has been warm and soft. Just one night of dipping temperatures at the end of October brought a slight frost which burnt the dahlias without blackening the stems or turning them to mush. So a few straggling…

Meet Cacahuète. Born on the 26th October. A little ray of donkey sunshine! Did I really say at the beginning of the month that I’m not overly keen on October?