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La clef des champs Agnès BALLAND, Marianne ROELSGAARD |
Follow the undulating summits of the willow walls that take you, as if you were carried by waves, to the centre of the garden. There floats a great boat tree, symbol of the travels of mankind and of the vegetable kingdom. With its sail-like tree, a Cornus controversa pivoting slowly on its axis, this vessel carries you on its trip around the world.
Heading out in the footsteps of La Pérouse, it pays tribute to the great explorers who criss-crossed the globe to discover and bring back unknown plants: François-Amédée Frézier who acclimatized the strawberry (called “fraise” in french) in Plougastel, Brittany, Jean Nicot who offered tobacco (also called Nicotania) to Queen Catherine de Medici to treat her migraines. Louis-Antoine Bougainville and his famous bougainvillea, and many others…
| Garden's plants Cornus controversa Salix viminalis Allium Bougainvillea glabra Chamaerops humilis Chasmanthium latifolium Dahlia nain ' Felina Blanc' Dahlia ' Volcane' Eragrostis curvula Fragaria 'Marie France' Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' Hosta Juncus effusus Musa Nicotiana sylvestris Papaver nudicaule Rheum Solanum jasminoides Symphytum caucasicum Verbascum |
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Garden created with the support of Architectonia, Etablissements TURC, Louis Vallin, Daniel Lang and the Parc Corbière le Pecq (78).
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