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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

Bigger pots

It was time :) This summer will be 4 years that I started doing pottery, tackling throwing after a year of playing around with slabs.

And orchid pots


Thought this blood grass was a goner, till I stopped submerging it in water.

A lemon tree:

flowers in little pots

For me they are like little mantelpieces and bouquets :) Over time I combine my favorite ceramic pots with different flowers.This summer I have fluffy kalanchoes and alpine poppies, which do better in small containers than those that I tried to plant last year.


Succulents... the best thing ever for little pots.





A tiny flower on a string of hearts.

fiery and fluffy

Love these dahlias from Viltain, puts me in the "weasel mode" right away.