Garden Visit: Les Jardins de la Poterie Hillen

It was the end of August 2013 when I was last fit enough to go out anywhere for pleasure, so I wanted my first day out on the slow road to full health again to be somewhere special.  Oh, and with benches!  Les Jardins de la Poterie Hillen in the Hautes-Pyrenees has been at the top of the To Visit list for several years and was well worth the anticipation. The garden is a fabulous mixture of formal, funny and rampant, with sculpture around almost every corner, and well worth its status as a Jardin Remarquable.

We visited in the middle of June when a period of hot weather - it was nicely in the low thirties - had the flowers open wide and the insects buzzing.