Un petit coin de Zen

We've had a long-standing interest in Japanese garden designs and Japanese gardens. We built two Japanese gardens in the UK and relocated some of our prized granite items to France with us when we moved.

In April we visited Japan on an intensive Temples, Shrines, Cherry Blossom and Gardens tour for some inspiration at the Adachi garden in Matsue:

And the Kokedera Moss Garden at the Saiho-ji temple in Kyoto:

What we've done at La Basse Cour isn't quite in the same scale but maybe we've turned a little part of Morbihan into a small corner of Japan:

The Natsume-bachi (granite basin) weighs 180kg and was brought over from our garden in Fleet

The pebbles for the basin area came from the quarry at Peaule, ex-SNCF railway sleepers aren't a common component of Japanese garden design but they work in this situation

Sparse planting of bamboo, Nandina Domestica, dwarf larch and a Heuchera complete the garden.