Saturday, September 11, 2004
Garden flowers competition
We got an official looking letter from the Marie of Les Champs Geraux today which we opened with some trepidation. After consulting the French-English dictionary to verify, it turns out that we have won a prize in the Concours de Fleurissement, a competition to discover whose house had the best flowers in the commune of Les Champs Geraux. There were three categories;
- Façade avec balcon - house front with balcony
- Façade cour et petit jardin - courtyard and small garden
- Grand jardin - large garden
and we won the third category, large garden with the best flowers. Caroline was absolutely thrilled to bits, she has worked really hard this year, raising cuttings, planting, propagating, weeding etc. I did the easy bit and drove her Valentine's present (a rotovator) around the lawn (a la Tom Good) to make the flower beds. Obviously we try to make the gardens nice for the guests staying in the gites, but this is a unexpected and pleasant surprise, in fact we didn't even know we had entered a competition. We get presented with a prize at a village ceremony in January.
Must add picture of prize winning gardens to web site :-)
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Garden flowers competition
