An afternoon in Bergères

We arrived around 2pm in Bergères. The small little village was bustling with crowds of people all here to enjoy the festival of plants. We’d had such a wonderful time here last year, but were completely surprised by the scale of the event. I was really looking forward to coming back this year, more prepared and ready to buy lots of plants.

There’s such a huge array of different flora, I knew I needed to be focussed if I wanted to get what I was looking for. First though, a friend had given me a tip to go and view an open private garden behind a small house in the centre of the village. It was not only a beautiful little garden, it was very inspirational; how they had used decaying objects as part of the garden structure, and how they had masked an old garden shed. I was in love with how they created their borders, and laid paths weaving between areas, to enjoy a quiet cup of tea or evening apéro in either full sun or the shade of a tree. Simply delightful.

There is so much to see and do. We had enormous fun searching out the plants I wanted to buy, whilst stopping every now and then to enjoy some of the local entertainment.

I have been looking for a while for a wicker garden chair. I wanted something that was comfortable that I could paint white and throw some pretty cushions on, so I could sit and read a book, enjoy a cup of tea and relax. I always thought I would buy a second hand one, but I was very pleasantly surprised when I saw two new ones, of just the style that I had wanted. We decided to get both of them.