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For visitors - to the house (Dremmwel), the gite (Valanec Uhel), the gardens, and the experimental potager at Valanec (Hanvec, 29460 Brittany, France).
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Potager open to public on 5 June 2011
As part of an initiative by our local pressure group for sustainable development, Hanvec 21, and as part of the national event Bienvenu dans mon jardin (organised by the association Jardiniers de France), the experimental raised bed potager will be open … Continue reading
Posted in Bickerton, Brittany, Dremmwel, Experimental "potager", Experiments, gardening, raised beds, Valanec, Valanec Uhel (gite), vegetable, visit, visitor
Tagged Brittany, Finistère, Hanvec
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Timeless Exotic Beauty
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Wood stores and storage
They say that wood – as a fuel – heats you twice: once when you cut it and then again when you burn it. Having just re-filled the Dremmwel woodstore for the winter I am inclined to say that’s a … Continue reading
Discovered new plant in garden
A giant plant has sprung up behind the gite. Friends on Saturday explained it was “la grande badane”, i.e. Burdock. It is massive, at least a metre high and wide already and still going, and it has numerous medicinal properties. … Continue reading
Posted in Dremmwel, garden, plants & shrubs
Tagged borrage, burdock, comfrey, plants, silybum marianum
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