There’s a new club. Friends of Odile‘s Garden Costs €36 ($50-ish) a year and you get a badge, priority bookings at events and the chance to sit around regularly for…
> There are experts. And then there are EXPERTS. Writ large. Odile Landragin and Sibylle Kallwei at the Oppenheim Plant Fair last Sunday, purveying all sorts of temptingly good…
>Gloria Hasse (left) runs an excellent ceramics gallery from her home near Darmstadt, which is waaay out of my authorised reporting zone, so I shouldn’t really even be mentioning it.…
Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,…
Alternative title: “A bit seedy” Odile‘s in Gonso
..are Nature’s opposition to the gardener’s regime” Couldn’t have put it better myself. Seen at Odile Landragin‘s paradise in Gonso
Serious stuff in Odile’s greenhouse.
..of course, don’t stand a chance in Odile’s garden. She’s French, dontcha know, so they fall into the category of “culinarily persecuted“….
“Stuck on you” takes on a totally new meaning with Odile’s oh-so-very environmentally friendly flytrap.
Potting bench in Odile’s greenhouse.
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> At Odile’s Advent hoolie. If you listen to Monika Granereau, this cake of Aleppo soap will add years to your life and strip away decades of ageing, with the…
> Odile Landragin‘s events are a true joy. The best garden for miles around and just the nicest people, both visitors and helpers. (I tend to tag along to lower…
> Sibylle “Oh, go on – take my photo if you have to” Kallweit is one of Odile’s Busy Lizzies. She’s also an excellent photographer. Odile featured her at…
> Odile Landragin‘s garden shed. Professional simplicity.
> I have a feeling that the Odilarium was originally intended to be a swimming pool, but somehow ended up as a sunken garden. Whatever. It’s one of the many…
> Odile Landragin‘s documentation of the weather in May 19 Rain Rain20 Cool Cool21 Same A small excerpt of a meteorologically challenging month. Killed my basil plants, that’s for sure….
> © Caitlin Houghton Odile Landragin is a frequent topic of these pages, She’s an absolutely charming person with a lovely family and her garden is exquisite. Her 8 year…
> Famous Fotog Franzi(ska) Hasse popped around in spring on the recommendation of her Mum and Dad. Quite an honour, because she’s a freelance garden photographer for some of the…
>Odile Landragin is legendary in these parts for her stunning herb and aromatics garden. So legendary, in fact, that the local paper has assigned her the elevated status of Official…
>…but blue? And not both? Odile Landragin is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her exquisite herb and aromatics garden in Gonsenheim with a series of open days. If the weather…
>I was having a bit of the moan the other day, envying my mate R&R in the Netherlands his proximity to the sea. He, in return, wished for vineyards just…
>Talking of favourites… Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) would be the favourite flower. Odile Landragin had some really healthy seedlings this year and they’re now growing up a tipi-type support, flowering…
>A splash of carved red coral that caught my eye in Odile Landragin’s garden yesterday.And here we all are again… Shanghai, China – Mumbai, India – New York City (NY),…
>“Ah, I’m so glad that you are promoting women’s businesses and interests”, wrote Kate a while back when I blogged Gloria et Odile. She’ll be well pleased with this one,…