"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
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Monday, 25 May 2009

Potager

 
Cowirl mentioned a potager in her posting the other day. What, I wondered, was a potager. The answer is a traditional kitchen garden; a seasonally used space separate from the rest of the residential garden; a kitchen garden usually taken to mean a formal, decorative kitchen garden.
So now I know!


This is the potager at the Chateau de Villandry near Tours.