A typical Provençal garden

Our garden is the result of many years of physical work… But when you’re passionate as Jasmine, and that you see the result and the evolution, all this is hard work is forgotten!
When we acquired the property, which was deserted for 8 years, there was lots of dead trees and weed, but several ancient olive trees and beautiful pine trees set a base for the future developments.

We started to create some planted areas all around the house and courtyard; we then planted a small vineyard, an olive tree orchard and planted lots of apricot trees (for the homemade jams and tarts). The garden features several varieties of apple trees, a walnut tree, a hazelnut tree, almond trees, a plane tree, various species of magnolia, pine trees, cypress trees, and different species of cedars.

We then planted a lavender field and kept adding difference species to the planted areas.

Now, there are more than a hundred rose bushes of many kinds, and beautiful species that you admire according to the period of the year:

Early Spring (March/early April) is a beautiful time if you love flowers: laurestine, forsythia, iris, broom plants, spirea and most of the trees of the regions are covered with flowers: cherry, apricot and almond trees.

Late Spring (late April / May) is also a time of explosion of flowers with the roses and rosa banksiae (yellow, pink and white), cistus, magnolias, euphorbias, abelias, perovskias, gauras, jasmine, santolina, pittosporum…

Summertime (June, July & August) is getting hotter, so the plants are less giving (roses especially), while some other plants keep their beautiful flowers through the summer: bignonia, hortensia, pink sage, abelias, perovskias, gauras, bougainvillea, tulbaghia, oleander, hibiscus, agapanthus, nerine…

The most emblematic Provençal plant is lavender. There are two types: the lavender, which is the original one, planted in altitude (around 700m) and the lavandin which is grown in the plains. The lavandin blossoms earlier that the lavender (the plain is hotter earlier), but the essential oil from lavender is of higher quality that the lavandin.

If you plan a visit for the lavender fields, we recommend you to come from the last 10 days of June to the third week of July. The period is short: too early, the plant does not have the perfect color, and if you’re late, the lavender is already harvested!