Restoration of 'la belle vue'

With summer an increasingly fading memory all attentions have turned to the forthcoming winter months and the annual autumn shape-up of the flower garden and potager.

Augustin at his beloved school and Constance taking full advantage of Grandmas attention, time allowed for recollections of Percy Thrower (Blue Peter) to be called upon.

The potager had supplied us with some delicious Charlottes and Amandines earlier in the year, and to my surprise delivered an impressive second harvest.

Next, the flower garden, the restoration of la belle vue and a make-over of the massif.

After much weeding, weeding and weeding... prunning, cutting out the dead, replanting, splitting and replanting, along with the introduction of some new additions and some family favourites - Eric Tabarly and Pierre de Ronsard - we eagerly await the blooms of spring 2011.