n°22 La Deurie

La Mouche

A huge botanical collection

On more than 5 acres, and since 2005, Marie-Claude Corbin has put together a unique collection of rare trees and bushes, old roses, specimen perennials; an arboretum, ‘spring’ and ‘autumn’ borders, a lush mixed border in the English Style, a prolific vegetable garden.

Although the garden is relatively young in its present location, the Corbins transplanted their old garden with a tractor (luckily it was quite close by) so there are some mature specimens. Low walls contain the flower beds and give the garden a harmonious continuity from one side of the house to the other.

Collections

• roses, notably old roses, ‘Belle de Crécy’, ‘Gerbe Rose’, ‘Mme de Sancy de Parabère’, ‘Félicité Parmentier’…
• perennials: aconite, Dierama, euphorbias, Veronicastrum…
• Acer (maples): A. capillipes (splendid bark), A. discolor, A. tegmentosum (gold in the autumn), A. stachophyllum (a small tree whose new growth is scarlet), A. pensylvanicum (new growth striped like toothpaste)
• Aesculus (horse chestnuts): A. assamica, A. chinensis, A. wangii
• Euonymus: E. bungeanus (pale yellow in autumn), E. hamiltonianus ‘Popcorn’, ‘Poort Bulten’, ‘Rising Sun’, E. oxyphyllus (red foliage and fruits), E. planipes (seeds like little crimson jewels).
• Nyssa: N. sinensis and hybrids of N. sylvatica
• Pterocarya
• Prunus
• Viburnum
• Exochorda...

Outstanding plants

• impossible to list them, and anyway according to Marie-Claude, ALL plants are remarkable!

Surface

• 5 acres