The Sunday Stills challenge this week was ‘Flower Gardens’. This sequence of photos has been taken as we’ve navigated the River Saone at Chalon-sur-Saone, in three different years. This kind of regimented planting isn’t everyone’s idea of a pretty flower garden but you have to admire the skill, patience and precision involved. Click on the link for other collections.
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I used to cruise the French waterways with my husband four or five months a year, and wrote fiction and poetry. Now I live on the beautiful Dorset coast, enjoying the luxury of being able to have a cat, cultivating an extensive garden and getting involved in the community. I still write fiction, but only when the spirit moves me - which isn't as often as before. I love animals, F1 motor racing, French bread and my husband, though not necessarily in that order.
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Sandra, Great photos. They remind me of the floats where everything is made of flowers. This is the first I’ve ever seen a whole garden planted that way. 🙂 —Susan
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When I think of how my garden looks, despite all my careful size/shape/colour co-ordination planting, I stand back in amazement at this sight every year.
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Wow, now that is dedication!
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Isn’t it just? I don’t think I’d have the patience.
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I prefer the cliche “English garden” but I can respect the work that goes into something like this.
janet
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There’s what I’d call an ‘English garden’ close our moorings at Pont de Vaux, all cosmos/cornflowers/poppies. It’s so beautifully undefined, fluffy, nebulous. I’ve kept saying I’ll go back when I’ve got my camera with me but you know how it goes… 😦
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Exactly what I’m talking about, Sandra. One of the big reasons I love the iPhone is that my camera is always with me! Takes me longer to get places, but…
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It must be done by someone with OCD. Nice photos. Lucy
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🙂 You might be right. It wouldn’t do for me, that’s for sure. I just chuck ’em in and watch them grow. Or not.
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Nice garden and well taken
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