Menton Daily Photo

Isn't he a beautiful cockerel? He's a Wyandotte and lives with his three females in the gardens of the Clos du Peyronnet in Ment...

Yellow irises at the beautiful garden of the Clos du Peyronnet, in Menton. ~ Les iris jaunes dans le beau jardin du Clos du Peyronnet...

A demijohn in the garden of Le Clos du Peyronnet. ~ Une dame-jeanne dans le jardin Le Clos du Peyronnet.

The wisteria-clad pergola at the Clos du Peyronnet. This beautiful privately owned garden is occasionally open to the public and otherwi...

The simplicity of  succulents displayed in a stunning vase in the beautiful gardens of the Clos du Peyronnet in Menton. ~ La simplici...

A row of old demi-johns that appear to float on the water at Le Clos du Peyronnet. ~ Une rangée de vieilles dame-jeannes qui semblen...

A beautiful double Peony currently in flower at Le Clos du Peyronnet in Garavan. Perhaps like a woman of a certain age and past her prim...

Ipheions are normally white (there are some in my own garden) but this is a rarer variety called Ipheion Rolf Fiedler.  It sat in it'...

Yesterday we saw the demijohns at the Clos du Peyronnet.  Today we see the 'guardian of the glass' - William's dog, Prickle. ...

The Clos du Peyronnet is one of my favourite Menton gardens. It's privately owned but open to the public on occasion and you can a...

Menton is famous for its gardens of which the Clos du Peyronnet is one of my favourites. Here's a pretty corner with Rosa Gigantea tumb...

Remember the wisteria the other day? This is another part of the same romantic garden. The splash of pink is a Judas tree and in the foregr...

We're still at Le Clos du Peyronnet looking at the facade of the Old Town from William's belvedere. We see a hedge in the foregrou...

Today, we are inside the wisteria-clad pergola at Le Clos du Peyronnet and so is Prickle, William Waterfield's little Jack Russell terr...

Wisteria! When the wisteria is in bloom, then you know it's springtime in Menton. Here you see the glorious wisteria covering the pergo...

Another pergola at the beautiful Clos du Peyronnet . This glorious garden is in Garavan and just 200 metres from the Italian frontier. A cu...

Here we see the enormous size of these wisteria plants, the trunks almost as wide as the columns. There is more than one variety planted al...

Indulge me! I know we are supposed to be continuing our visit to Rue Longue - and we will, we will, but I just wanted to show you some of ...