Friday, 4 June 2021

Les Montils

 Les Montils is a lovely little town, but you need to get out and walk it to see the best of it.

Irises, Loir et Cher, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Irises, squeezed into a tiny bed designed to protect a house on a tight corner.

Garden gate, Loir et Cher, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
A well used back entrance to a quite grand property.

Orange Trumpet Vine Pyrostegia venusta, Loir et Cher, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
A well established Orange Trumpet Vine Pyrostegia venusta (Fr. la Liane aurore) which covers a pergola in the garden behind this wall.

Medieval gateway, Les Montils, Loir et Cher, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
One of the two medieval gateways into the town. The other has been destroyed.

Astronomical observatory on a house, Loir et Cher, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Doesn't everyone have an astronomical observatory attached to their house?!

Pierre de Ronsard rose growing up a house, Loir et Cher, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Perennial favourites, Pierre de Ronsard climbing rose one side of the steps, lavender the other.


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4 comments:

Colin and Elizabeth said...

That's one hell of a chimney stack on the grand property...

chm said...

Is that tetragon spinach growing at the feet of Pierre de Ronsard?
Lovely irises, my favorite flower. Interesting little village.

Carolyn said...

chm, it looks like a salvia to me. I don't think you'd want to eat this one; the smell would put you off.

chm said...

Lol, Carolyn, thank you. In my youth we used to eat tetragon spinach often. Here, I should have said giant tetragon spinach!!

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