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Olive-tree of Provence decorates the blank with the hills, defies the wind, the seasons, the time which passes. Its full rustic fruit bitterness restores so many savours and smoothness.

"In Provence as somewhere else, it is necessary to remind itself that the black olive, it is the green olive which is walls up."

The little cottage where farmer of Provence was restored and rested when the cultivated grounds was far from the country house.

"Nowadays the meals in the small house of the big father gather regularly the families of Provence. The friends also are welcome!"

A concentrate of Provence: The shutters 'blue charrette' , the lavenders, the figs, the niches flowered, the potteries surrounds our symbolic olive-tree.

"This paint blue pastel take away insects, it comes to us from our ancestors in Provence who painted everything with this tint: door, shutters, carts.."

The hyacinth: Bulbous plant of the family of liliaceous which one cultivates a species of Minor Asia for these flowers in decorative bunch.

"Spaces of relaxation decorated with flowers which make the Provence charm"

The Provençal fountain in the middle of the garden decorated with Mediterranean succulent plants and with shrubs sculptured in the tradition of the topiary art.

"The secret place of the first steps for two, the first kiss, the puppy love."

The lavender pot at the edge of the window moves away with its powerful smell the turbulent fly.

"We see the lavender far off in fields then we find it very near the Provençal ancient country-house, in paths or entrances."

Art to cut the hedges, shrubs, bushes the made-to-order of the sculptors with a decorative aim.

"Hidden recesses of provençal garden where we like trailing round it shielded from the time which passes."

Except the first year, very little water for the lavender, accustomed to the arid climates.

"The lavender takes root in a ground so difficult, with little ground and so many pebbles, as too much attention perturbs it."

Garlic,major ingredient of Provence kitchen makes it possible to carry out our, impossible to circumvent, "Aioli of Provence". " Aahhh!! "

"The aioli, in Provence, amounts how one mayonnaise but only with some olive oil and the garlic, crowned performance!"

The boxwood likes moisture, originating in the Mediterranean it adapt to the plantation out of pot. It is let cut with leisure.

"If you watch it the box tree is tamable, otherwise it is fast intrusive. It is its Provençal side!"

Plant your lavender in pot and don't forget to cut it at the end of summer, it will be reinforced following year.

"Only the bee will have the favours of lady lavender, this agreement will engender the famous lavander honey."

Trim of olive-tree is a thousand-year-old art. The branch seized by the dove to indicate the appeasing.

"The olive-tree, in Provence, decorates the nature but also the inside of the house"

On the terasses, In the gardens, the lavender always finds its place.

"Its essence will come to relax you to the bath."

The dimension of olive-tree trunk forces the respect of the age. Certain olive-trees could have to be go alongside to several millenniums.

"The Olive tree of Provence likes the heat, resists to the icy cold and to the fires."

Quiet but odorous, the hand coffee machine waits the hour of the breakfast, the end of the meal, a friendly visit. It would have anecdotes of them to tell you.

"At daybreak, precedent allocates him in fields, its smell wakes the still sleepy Provençal ancient country-house."

Our grandmothers kettle, installed at the edge of the stove, always ready to whistle with hour of infusion or tea.

 "In winter, by evaporation, it was in charge of of hydrating the air of all the Provençal house."

The preserve pot in the past was used to keep food in salt, oil or straw.

"The strong hot season of Provence obliged the ancient to find all the craftiness to protect the food"

In the sun laying down the ochre color of the ground is reflected in nature. Sleep the little cottage.

"But the evening continues between friends or by a solitary meditation under a starry sky."

In winter as in summer the blue sky azure illuminates the little cottage in middle of day.

"In the Provençal small little cottage the life concentrates on little space: the farmer eats, sleeps, tidies up these tools in a single room, but past door, there is Provence."

Under the olive tree, against the wall, it was good to make a nap before turning over to work.

"The profound notches in dry-stone walls correspond in habits of passage of the Provençal farmer or of his animals"