It all started so well. By mid-June the garden looked beautiful and then it all went horribly wrong. Well, weeks of temperatures between 30-40 c with no rain won’t help your plants!
January was mild. February was snow. By March we had snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils and primroses/primulas.
Followed by hellebores.
Probably one of my favourite plants. I love painting them too.
These were followed by azaleas, oriental poppies, peonies, irises and lupins
Then there were the roses and the cats, always the cats.
So there I was with a beautiful garden full of flowers and then the first official heatwave arrived. In France it is called a canicule. 10 days of temperatures over
40 c. I had my open garden at the end of June. The grass had started to brown and the temperature was 36c in the shade. Some brave souls actually went round the garden!
A Garden in the Morvan 
Lovely to see in these gloomy days, a wonderful resume xxx
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Seeing these pictures now, after our weather (finally) got wintry, is like reading about gardening in Australia. Although winter is my favorite season in the garden, some of the flowery color of spring and summer would be nice.
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Beautiful photos. Thank you.
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