Kerusten, a Rose garden

The first weekend of June is a Garden weekend in Brittany.

Many beautiful private gardens are opened for Charity,

but the one we like best is a simple rose garden. Kerusten, deep in the Brittany countryside. There are over 500 varieties of roses

in the garden and they grow in a completely natural fashion.

Little grassy paths wind in and out of the beds, leading to...

who knows what? This is a corner of one of the barns, covered in climbing roses,

and full of Swallows, flying in and out as we watched. This white single Peony is in the 'Perfumed Garden',

but it seemed to me that all the garden is awash with scents.

Roses tangle with clematis, Mock orange bushes lead you into

areas full of old fashioned roses......by the hundred.

The perfume from this rose was so strong you didn't need
to lean down to smell it.


A little path might lead to an arbour,
or to a piece of statuary.



This building is being renovated inside, maybe to let for holidays.
I'd love to wake up each morning to the sounds and the scents.

At about 6pm there was a musical Aperitif. Rose champagne was served

to the music of this quartet. Three fiddles and an accordion played

bouncy Breton music
.

And at the end, Madame and Monsieur served a wonderful

light supper in the garden.

What an imaginative afternoon it was.