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The house sits beyond the lavender field
and overlooks the water – with beehives
in the garden.

much sand to fill the great big hole and I hoped for the best.” And she got it. The
thought, what a waste of sand and space.” sunflowers that bloomed in Summer 2020
He came up with the idea of turning the were spectacular.
cave-like space into dedicated wine stor- “They’re such joyful flowers, and we
age. Smart. needed that this year. I didn’t want people
“Of course I’d have separate spaces for to be disappointed if they turned up after
the commercial wine and my personal the lavender had finished its bloom. The
wine,” he grins. Just how much each one sunflowers gave them something else
gets remains to be seen! beautiful to enjoy.”
They decided not to charge an entrance
THE FLOWERS fee this year, but many visitors slipped cash
Wilma is an avid gardener but she’s practi-
into the little collection box anyway – and
cal, too. “We planted the lavender field Wilma gave it to the food bank.
with lavender plugs, not seeds which
Millefleurs was an instant hit with
would have been even more exhausting,” Instagrammers. A little bridge Sylvain and
she says. But she used seeds to sow a sep-
Wilma built themselves inspires a lot of
arate patch of florious sunflowers close to posing and lavender is a fabulous selfie
the visitors entrance.
backdrop. Cars screeched to a halt and did
“I knew nothing about sunflowers except U-turns as soon as the Millefleurs sign
that people love them,” she admits. “But I
went up.
put in eight different varieties and just

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