So in the Spring this year (2016) we asked our local gardener to put in a few new plants. Two magnolias and two cherry blossoms. Here is the cherry blossom flowering in the front garden.  I’m only now managing to update the website to show what’s been going on at the house over the last few months. We’ve also bought new outside dining tables from Ikea with seating for 12 for the south-facing terrace…

Back to the planting – then we had a purple magnolia planted in the front garden too. You can just see a couple of buds starting with the brilliant purple/pink colour starting to come through.

Magnolias grows incredibly well in this part of Normandy so we are looking forward to a fine looking shrub in the not too distant future.

I just wish we could have been here to see if flowering properly as they are one of my favourite plants.

And finally one of my all time favourites, yes another magnolia, this time a magnolia stellata..

The pictures are a little gloomy, it was a fairly cold March afternoon when I took these but by the evening the sun had come out and the sky was flawless, not a cloud anywhere.

The light here is so beautiful, at any time of year. Here’s a picture from the sitting room of the sunset through the wintery oak trees. Just to remind you that the weather changes frequently here and you see so many colours.