🌺Enchanting Gardens: This Week @frdvil’s Backyard in Normandy, France. #GardeningTwitter #LoveGardening

Welcome to my collection of gardens and their gardeners.

Over the subsequent few months I can be including to my common #SixOnSaturday posts with Sunday spots for fellow gardeners.

I at all times look ahead to Fred’s Saturday put up as he grows some uncommon crops and has a lot of good gardening recommendation. It was Fred who impressed me to attempt rising ginger and final yr’s plant was an ideal success. This yr I’ve needed to attempt more durable to get a ginger rising, however hopefully it’s now on it’s method.

Fred has kindly agreed to reply a couple of of my questions and inform us a bit extra about his backyard and crops.

The place do you reside and backyard?

I dwell in France in Normandy and my backyard is about 5000 sqm

What soil sort and rising circumstances do you’ve got?

The soil is especially clay and fairly heavy, however for years I’ve been including compost and manure and now it has turn out to be lighter.

Inform us extra about your backyard, as an illustration how lengthy you’ve got been gardening and what you’ve got created in your backyard.

I’m nearly 49 and I’ve been gardening for the reason that age of 10 when my father recommended that I sow my first seeds in his vegetable backyard. They have been easy issues, like radishes. I actually acquired into gardening after I purchased my home in 1999. At first, it was merely upkeep, however I developed a sure attraction for unique crops whereas touring. After I was 40, I had a good looking greenhouse as a present. 

I found social medias by likelihood and located the posts in English have been essentially the most attention-grabbing (imo), but in addition essentially the most passionate folks: that’s why I continued in English and I’m fairly proud of it! 

At first, my backyard was only a garden with the home within the center and a hedge round it. I created totally different elements by kinds of crops (fruit bushes, vegetable backyard, unique crops, a primary pond, then a small second one, ericaceous crops, and many others… , whereas preserving the big bushes and a few of the garden after all.)

Do you’ve got a favourite sort of plant in your backyard?

It’s exhausting to say…I clearly like unique crops with giant leaves, but in addition any sort of plant that produces edible fruit. 

My problem in recent times is to develop the crops that we don’t see round right here, and I can say that it really works !

I do know that you simply prefer to develop unique crops, are you able to inform us about a few of them?

My first attraction to exotics got here from touring to Italy and Spain, after I was a toddler with my dad and mom.
I used to be amazed by the cacti and succulents: that was the place to begin. I introduced again some cuttings in tin cans…!

Then I’ve developed my very own information (I’m not a gardener! It’s only a pastime)

What’s the neatest thing about gardening for you?

Having fingers within the soil and potting crops is addictive for me. Rising a plant from a seed and watching it develop!

In case you like lovely photos of inspiring gardens and crops do observe Fred on his social media.

Fred’s weblog https://fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/

Twitter @frdvil | Instagram @frdvil

Please be part of me in thanking Fred for taking time to reply my questions and offering images for this put up.