To create a beautiful garden without too much work or anxiety, inspiration must come from the local flora. Here in the Var, this wild and spontaneous vegetation is called the “garrigue”. Our hills are covered with scented shrubs: the famous Provence herbs of rosemary, lavender, savory and fennel. Flowering in spring, their leaves are decorative and permanent. These plants require only a little water, a well-drained soil and some sun.

To these local plants, already rich in perfume and colour, we add plants from other regions of the globe, like California, Australia or Southern China? That have comparable environments.
Do you know this rose that grows in the south of China, rosa sinensis mutabilis? It keeps its leaves all year and its simple flowers, like the wild rose, change from pale yellow to pink over a few days.
Or the ceanothes, from California, that are covered with electric blue flowers to the point where they completely hide the foliage? It is available in dozens of varieties from a ground cover plant to a tree