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Always present in nature, the kitchen, a pot or a basket thyme is the inevitable meeting of Provence.

"In the Provençal cooking, thyme is the most used by far. Of the grill in simmered flat youngs, it perfumes quite as one pleases."

With summer rages the heat wave. Against the little cottage the olive tree delivers shade so much required.

"Walls around the Provençal small little cottage result from numerous stones removed from the ground to be able to cultivate it."

The oil pot in the past was used to preserve olive oil with shelters of the light in the part pantry.

"In Provence the olive oil serves for all the recipes and it support easyly the strong temperatures of cookings."

In Provence the worship of the lavender is present everywhere. You can even taste ice cream with lavender.

"The use of the aforementioned grass of Provence in the Provençal cooking lives however almost nobody."

Another odor of Provence. In ballade rosemary rubs with you and still scents your atmosphere during long days.

"The rosemary is long-lived and acclimatizes easily far from its native Provence."

The scrubland, the secret garden of the childhood. Ceaseless discoveries, unforgettable flavours real presents for our memoirs.

"The evening, the return in the ancient country-house posthaste, the burnt legs by the scratches of the Provençal vegetation."

In Provence orchards illuminated, the complicity of the sun fills fruits of sweetness.

"Apricot trees, cherry trees, apple trees, pear trees are held side by side in this space of Provençal light."

Greek or Chinese recognized her medicinal properties. Visually, the peony amazes above all by the depth of these red.

"As it is not said when we were ashamed: I became red as a peony"

The solidity of the olive tree unites hearts for ever, strengthens the adventure of the life in the peace and the love.

I bloom in abundance in all weathers, in all periods and in different colors. I am miss clematis.

"The clematis is often next of too much near the climbing rose of the Provençal vine arbour."

The clematis Madam le Coultre distinguishes himself by the big dimension of these flowers which do not prevent it from climbing, climbing, climbing...

Armand's clematis is a big explorer in our gardens who installs on its passage a sensual white curtain.

"Albertine" is an ancient rose, color salmon, which catches on our walls or our arbour in search of the sun.

The wheat symbolizes the happiness, the prosperity, the fertility. Not insignificant to envisage a fascinating life for two!

A hot and very trendy decoration resulting from the marriage of two cultures: flax and olive-tree.

"These two noble cultures are exploited since the antiquity. The one is Provençal, the other one not, but their colors are very complementary."

Symbol of abundance, immortality or knowledge, the fig tree didn't finish surprising us.

"In Provence, with the figs leaves, the ancient prepared effective herb teas for the blood circulation, the digestion, to check the cough."

The laurel has patience in the garden before to be dried in the cusine to adapt many provencaux dishes.

"Attention on this grass of Provence, especially for the children, because when it is green the leaf of the laurel is toxic"

The crassula or " Tree of Jade" , come from Africa adapted easily to the climate of Provence. She adores the sun and requires little water.

It crossed the Mediterranean sea, come to acclimatize in Provence allowing to our grandmother cultivate it and invent the famous recipe: "artichokes barigoule".

L' aloe symbol of sorrow also drives out the bad mind. These African origins allow it to acclimatize easily to the Provençal life.