It's harvest time, for grapes, olives, and lavender (for us because we leave them very, very late for our guests to enjoy), it's a time when we play around plants and enjoy their scent to the very end... Lavender crop 2020 We also dry out all sorts of aromatic and...
It's always a delicious time when we cut out the flowers and let them dry before packing them up in little linen pouches. Over the years we have started getting more efficient at doing this, although we only have a small field, it does yield quite a lot of flowers! We...
Blissfull season filled with scents and busy bugs flying around eating their hearts out. This year, because of covid, we where able to enjoy it like never before, and were very grateful for that. Rosemarywild...
A stroll through the garden is music to one's eyes.. Sakura on the drive.. Lilas Jasmin Wild roses Accacia flowers from the patio's tree mix their aromas with the huge wisteria that overwhelms the senses We have a wide variety of Sauges, quintessential to Provence...
Our local river, the Ouveze, is accessible near Vaison-la-Romaine's town center. It is Provence's response to "A river runs through", and boasts many fishes, no kill fishing only though! [video width="720" height="1280"...
A story in pictures... Starting from behind the castle of Vaison-la-Romaine
It might come as a surprise, but lavenders are not grown only to be featured on instagram... They are actually used to produce essential oil. Here is the process at Aroma'Plantes, a distillery in Sault, filled with the intoxicating aroma of Provence's darling. The...
This post is brought to you by my other half, who regularly climbs the mountain like a walk in the park. The cyclists amongst you should appreciate.... Not sure where this all is, but here it is with the legend... Tough Tougher Toughest...
Since this is the time of year when one should really talk about lavenders, I thought I would take you to some place off the beaten tracks. The Baronnies are the first hills that we encounter when leaving Vaison-la-Romaine towards the Alps, it is Provence's best kept...
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