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The dahlia maze of Chaumont. Must be the prettiest and the biggest dahlias I've ever seen.

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Water and plants.

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This weekend we went to the Garden Festival in Chaumont-sur-Loire. It was magnificent, as always. This year's theme was collection. A collection of clovers, a collection of 101 pelargoniums, including one that smelled of propolis, a collection of ferns, mosses, and the list went on and on.
Here is what I collected.
Fluffy white:

Pots and autumn flowers

We had a very nice sunny autumn, and I really do hope this sunshine lasts till spring. So here are some pics of flower pots and what goes inside.


Yep, an hydrangea that is still blooming! I got this seedling from a flea market and it flowered twice this summer, courageous little fella:


Christmas roses, helleborus niger, that also go by the name of "Potter's wheel", lol:


And a pic of my autumnal blood grass, finally looking like it should, fiery red

summer cottons

Have been doing a bit of sewing for my grandma. It's been awfully long since I last seen her, so the two dresses (here modelled by my mom) were made easy to fit.

My grandma as a young girl, on the left.




The longest part was doing those buttonholes. My machine (a Husqkvarna) makes really sloppy ones, so I had to embroider them manually. Argh!