Inspired in her childhood by the passion of her parents and grand-parents for gardens and woods, Véronique naturally becam landscape architect.
She works nowadays in the consulting for private gardens.

Her own garden is like a brightful painting, changing in mood with the seasons.

Species of rare plants and flowers play hide and sike. Perennials, climbing plants are the queens of the place. This stunning garden keeps all its secrets if you just cross it. You need time enough to discover some elegant details, well-done matches of colours…

As the garden-lovers know, flowers had a language of their own and in Véronique garden, chatterin never ends. She is a master in the art of finding amazing ways of combine flower varieties and succession of bright blossoming. She is not alone in her small paradise : birds and bugs bring their fantasy by picking up seeds, and carry them in on other place !

You could think that Véronique garden is just like a museum. It’s exactly the contrary, being the preferred game-place of her grandkids.

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He’s just amazing, and it’s hard to believe him when he tells us that he’s not a gardener… just a garden-lover. In a very small square space, he has achieved to create several distinct environments. At first glance, we could imagine that the visit will be a short one. It would be a shame as we need time to discover so fine details, tricks and tips, and learn so much from François.

How to collect the rain water falling on the roofs of his neighbours, create a closed circuit watering, feed a small pond, build small houses for birds and where settle them, use recycled natural materials to set up small discret composter devices. Like an horizontal sundial, several small tubes set in the lawn allow to change the parasol without any effort, according to the race of the sun in the sky. Ingenious and unseen.

Finally, we could spend a lot of time : so much to see, so much to learn. No doubt that if François wants to be a professional gardener, he would have a lot of work to do at once.

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