n°17 Le Haut-Dy

Créances

A bewitching succession of different garden settings 

A dip into an exotic world is what visitors are offered behind the house where, protected by old stone walls, Hélène and Pierre Lefillastre have acclimatised palms, cestrums, abutilons and Citrus x paradisi  (grapefruit)  in the open ground.

After this veritable jungle, the garden calms down beside a vegetable patch, then opens out to fruit trees and a play area.  This first part covers 4,500 m².  More recently the second, and larger section comprises a water feature which is surrounded by an opulent planting of choice shrubs and perennials, as well as  naturalised undergrowth below indigenous trees growing on the property.

Collections

• perennials (in the main damp and shade lovers)
• 20 cranesbills
• roses, old and modern
• 40 clematis
• Viburnum plicatum…

Outstanding plants

• Fuchsia regia
• Decumaria barbata
• Cornus ‘Eddie’s White Wonder’
• Cistus x oblongifolius, incredibly generous flowering
• Salix alba ‘Nova’, a willow with bright orange stems in winter
• A special mention for two roses : ‘Bonica 82’, a shrub unequalled for its flowering season, and ‘Ethel’, a rambler with pink pompoms!

Surface

• 2.5 acres