My Great Outdoors: An English Garden in Provence

Name: Ex-patriate English Ed Location: Provence, France Type of space: Garden How did you do it?: By combining the plants and flowers I love from home with those native to Provence. We used wood and other materials from the former horse stables to make most of the garden furniture. The tables and stone chairs were made from horse troughs.

Recommended store, site, product or resource? Using what you already have — we were lucky to have the old horse troughs and other materials. We love the lavender in bloom.

(Images: Rachael Grad)

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Comments (14)

dreamy

posted by LoriSF on June 8th 2009 at 3:27pm
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wow that is so gorgeous, thanks for sharing!!

posted by ichi on June 8th 2009 at 3:30pm
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LoriSF, that's pretty much the only word to describe it.
I wish I had a backyard that large...

posted by chikiyuu on June 8th 2009 at 3:33pm
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jealous

posted by sally305 on June 8th 2009 at 3:39pm
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Gorgeous!!

(...but maybe better suited for palatialestatestherapy.com?)

posted by EC on June 8th 2009 at 3:55pm
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Now that is an awesome garden. Way envious.

What is the "stuff" growing above the wall (looks like it has red flowers in it)?

Too bad the doors are so new though. It'd have been cool to see old weathered doors. I love those...personal bias. LOL

posted by TypicalGuy on June 8th 2009 at 4:00pm
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TypicalGuy- It's "trumpet vine".

posted by SQ on June 8th 2009 at 4:21pm
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Gasp.......Did you see the lavender? The scent must be divine. And this is a garden attached to an apartment?

posted by Haruki on June 8th 2009 at 4:56pm
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Sometimes life doesn't feel fair....and this is one of those moments. This is gorgeous!

posted by baileyb on June 8th 2009 at 7:22pm
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Completely and utterly stunning. The honey bee's knees.

posted by Seaside on June 8th 2009 at 8:20pm
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Amazing. But please correct the spelling of expatriate; it seems as if Ed had just stopped being patriotic...

posted by Sofia on June 9th 2009 at 6:29am
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This is so gorgeous!

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