From a very private
garden to an ‘intensive working place’ in the country site, a stud farm in
Normandy. Recently Pierre has been working at Stud farm in Normandy. The place
is expanding rapidly and it’s an ongoing building site. As the previous owner
cut all the trees, as he had plans to build a landing strip of small planes.
This was never executed but the trees are gone. Nothing around the house nor at
the stable yards.
It’s vital to
reintroduce a vegetal structure, to give the place comfort and well being apart
from the aesthetic point of view. It’s the only way to create comfort for
horses as well as the people working and living there!
The challenge for
Pierre is to imagine a very quite atmosphere for the horses and people to live
and work on a daily basis.
The structure is
created by planting lines and squares of
trees from the same variety. While on the ground creating a low level by
planting lines of box plants and create corners with Round box plants. The
inside of this structure is filled with flowering plants starting with the
bulbs for early spring, when the mounting season for the horses start and 500
mares come and visit to be covered by the sires.
Another important
season is autumn when the foals are separated from the mares and the young
horses start their training.
In the middle of this
newly created structure Pierre has planted a mixed border in grey – blue and
white with a preference off scented plants to have waves of perfume passing.
To quote Pierre: ‘I
cannot forget I am in Normandy with of course the influence of the tradition of
big English gardens’.
Some place for lunch
and break are organised with a pergola of chestnuts beams, to be covered by
climbing plants. Like oblong, climbing roses, jasmine.
Parking lots are well
defined to create order in this domain.
Things are still in
an early stage but the structure is there and it’s already immensely
appreciated.
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