Spring Has Sprung

I'm reluctant to say that without my fingers crossed - but it really does seem as if we are not going to have Winter weather now.

I have dug out a little potager in my front garden...

and have already put in some cabbage and broccoli plants...

...and on Sunday we went to a Fête des Plantes at Magnac Laval and I bought three gooseberry bushes - which seem to be rare in France!

Hopefully I will have lots of lovely fruit at the end of the Summer.

The Plant Fair was in the grounds of a château which is part of an agricultural college now...

There were quite a few stalls...

...I actually bought the gooseberry bushes from the one that was selling irises!

I was very tempted by a climbing rose, but there is a big plant fair in a couple of weeks at the château in Mortemart, and I have had very good things from there in the past, so I'm going to wait for that one.

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