In minutes you can be high up looking at the Pyrenees, and there are miles and miles of wild landscape with wildflowers
It’s not often that your first sight of a garden is from above. But Le Jardin Champêtre in the Occitanie region of southwest France offers just that opportunity. Set in a river valley, the garden sits four metres below the road allowing you the opportunity to take in the garden’s informally arranged shrubs, grasses and perennials, before climbing down to explore its gravel pathways more fully., the strawberry tree , and – all classic western Mediterranean species. These are growing and, in some cases, being pruned into more tree-like forms, partly to create space beneath for planting. To begin with the pair grew annuals too, which they found were good early year fillers, but offered too short a season.
