Hydrangea haul

Tis the season for gluts. Today we will be taking back kilos and kilos of tomatoes, and apples, and plums. But we leave the hydrangeas behind.   They came from La Blache, a garden where Leslie is working.

The garden is up high above Albon, about 45 minutes drive away from our mountain top.   The views of the dying ferns in the sunlight quite arresting.   But we were more arrested by the sight of all those flowers.   Going to waste!

We went over on Monday to see Leslie and give her a hand in hacking back four very overgrown hydrangea bushes.   And what to do with the flowers? Why, bring them back and use up all the vases in the house (and more from Jobbing) with a dried flower arrangement.

They might not all make it – drying them seems to be either a dark art or dumb luck – but we shall see. They are fetching with their various colours.   And when one is tired of cosmos it’s lovely to have a change.