European Gardening: Gardening in Southwest France, 1 by philomel

philomel wrote:
they'll be sugar snap peas on the frame - except the frame doesn't work, or at least the netting is no good, so I'll be replacing that with hazel pea sticks from the bushes.
The flowers in the front are lambs' ears - Stachys. The huge purple carpenter bees are besotted with them! :)
The soil is better than I expected, which is a real bonus. I think it may be slightly wetter here, but we are only 15 minutes away, so the climate isn't very different

I got some half barrels as a temporary water feature to house lots of the water plants from the old house