dans mon jardin

by Sharon Santoni
Despite our springtime drought, the garden seems to have pulled through and has been giving us pleasure through May and June.   We’ve made note of things to improve for next year, plants to buy, to divide to move around.    I can’t help but love the old fashioned cottage flowers, roses, delphiniums, lavenders and lupins.
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25 comments

Anonymous June 28, 2011 - 9:25 am

Delphiniums "Pacific Gaints" are my favourite flowers. Adore the long spikes and the colours. I do battle to germinate them though…but a few always pulls through and make a show. Your garden is looking wonderful and inspires me to get my renovations done!

Veronica
http://www.tasselsandtwigs.blogspot.com

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Pilgrim at Kerjacob June 28, 2011 - 9:44 am

I've just walked around my garden and let the lavender brush against my legs when I walked up to the potager.
Your garden is looking lovely and will give you much pleasure.

The great heat of the weekend has passed now and I'm sure al the plants are sighing with relief.

Diane. x

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Passionedeco...perchè le case hanno un'anima June 28, 2011 - 9:52 am

Oh my…I am so deeply in love with your garden!
It gives me a sense of freedom and peace.
So rustic and wild yet (or really because of that) SO CHIC!
With love,
Fra

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Ann June 28, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Well, I believe you kindly included all of my favorite flowers and in my favorite colors!

Some day I WILL see that garden and meet you!

Just beautiful.

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Francine Gardner June 28, 2011 - 1:04 pm

I just loved looking at the pictures of your garden. On our side of the Atlantic, too much rain has not been the best for my roses.
I could spend days reading, sunning and working in your garden. let me know if you need any help…

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Penny Dinwiddie June 28, 2011 - 2:05 pm

Fabulous garden and great pictures! A real inspiration, we are so behind with our garden this year particularly in the potager,the ground was so dry early on and now the weeds are infesting everything,hey ho! Hubby fighting a gallant battle with these little monsters and your pictures have spurred us on, keep up the good work. love your blog by the way. Penny (Manoir de Kerledan, Finistere)

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Angeline-Marie June 28, 2011 - 2:36 pm

Your garden is a plein aire painter's dream.

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Chester County Cottage Girl June 28, 2011 - 2:49 pm

Your garden looks so beautiful! I could sit out there on a bench for hours just adoring all of the cottage flowers. I especially love the cottage roses. Looks like a very calm, peaceful setting!

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Lori E June 28, 2011 - 2:55 pm

The cottage garden flowers are the best. They just give a certain wonderful air to the garden that I don't get from other styles of gardens.
A garden is never finished and year after year we make our lists.

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under spanish moss June 28, 2011 - 2:58 pm

Sharon, your garden has faired well. It is absolutely beautiful. You must be a proud gardner!

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Mary Anne June 28, 2011 - 3:04 pm

Your garden is beautiful! I am struggling with my roses……….yours are beautiful. I am not mulching over the winter, must do that. Do you mulch your roses? Do you feed tham?

Love all that you do!

Mary Anne ox

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erin June 28, 2011 - 3:12 pm

oh sharon…it's all so beautiful!!

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I Dream Of June 28, 2011 - 3:51 pm

Just gorgeous. I can smell the lavender and roses from here. I would love to spend the afternoon painting in your garden, getting lost in the blooms, stopping to sip a glass of wine in the shade. Heaven!

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vignette design June 28, 2011 - 7:15 pm

Your garden is so beautiful Sharon!

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LaPouyette June 28, 2011 - 11:36 pm

A very lovely and beautiful garden indeed!
Bravissimo Sharon!

Apart from the wonderful roses, the blue Delphinium are my favorite. Unfortunately we cannot have them, the snails get the first tiniest little leaves immidiately, lost several over the years.
Happy summer time and greetings from Périgord,
Karin

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Bunny Terry June 28, 2011 - 11:37 pm

Very envious of your garden – it's so beautiful, and enticing to someone who's living in the dry Southwest. Lovely. . .

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Gracefully Vintage June 29, 2011 - 1:41 am

Great Garden French Inspiration…
Love it.. Karryann

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Trudys Emporium June 29, 2011 - 5:36 am

Absolutley love Country Style, I lived in Country France & Country Italy for 12 months & thank you for reminding me of those times, these photos are so similar the flowers are devine! Trudy

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Em from Faded White Linen June 29, 2011 - 6:30 am

Your garden is my idea of heaven. Just gorgeous- enjoy your beautiful weather. Cold and grey over here in Sydney xx

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Babi June 29, 2011 - 8:54 am

Your garden is simply amazing!
Looking at these pictures is like to walk inside your garden!
A little piece of heaven.
Bisou, Babi

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Bumbleberry Stitches June 29, 2011 - 5:41 pm

Wow, every photo is just beautiful! Love your garden!

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Amy June 29, 2011 - 6:14 pm

It's fairy-tale beautiful! As I continue to clear out my own neglected mess of a garden (it might be done next week!) I'm discovering that a lot of my favorite plants like delphiniums, lilies and others were choked out by weeds and self-seeding phlox (vicious plants, those phlox). It's pretty bare out there.

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Jenny June 30, 2011 - 8:19 pm

these lovely visions of your garden bring tears to my eyes. What bursts of colors, green freshness, and lush growth….then I look about our yellowed, dirt packed and cracked grasses of our Texas drought ridden pastures and pray and dream for sites such as yours. Thank youfor sharing and celebrating your bounty.

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Patti Willey July 2, 2011 - 2:42 am

Oh my word your photos are so pleasing to the eye! I love the roses climbing up the cottage with the chair near the door.

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absolutelylovingit August 1, 2011 - 8:49 pm

Oh, how I love your home and garden.Your photographs inspire me.

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