About Transplanted!
What You Need to Know
Transplanted! an English gardener in Normandy is a blog based in a garden created since 2010 in what was originally a field full of cows in the extreme south of Normandy, France. From our garden we look south to the Pays de la Loire, or westwards towards Brittany. We feel we are 'central for everywhere', so from time to time this blog will look beyond the boundaries of our little plot. Living in an unnamed house, down an unnamed lane, two km from the nearest road you can see on 'Google Streetview', 'central for everywhere' is also 'in the middle of nowhere'!
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The soil in Normandy is rich (must be all those cows!), but our site here is in a dip, sparing us the worst winds, but trapping frosts in winter and spring. With no well on site, irrigation can be a challenge in the not uncommon summer droughts. Summer shade temperatures usually exceed 30C for a few days each year, so we save rainwater where we can, and mulch to reduce evaporation.
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We grow all sorts of odd things, some of them very odd indeed, and sharing our enthusiasm for some of those oddities is one aim of this blog.
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Owing to a working life spent moving from job to job, this is the first garden we have ever actually owned. We are not novice gardeners, but we still make our share of mistakes. If some of the plants you see here look suspiciously mature, that's because many have travelled with us through one or more moves. We didn't want to leave them behind, so, like their owners, they have been Transplanted!
