n°14 Le Presbytère de Brucheville

Brucheville

The exuberance of a cottage garden

Still in its early years, this garden started in 2004 happily juxtaposes its three separate spaces, where old roses and hydrangeas rule the waves.

There is the courtyard (350 m²), the vegetable garden (300 m²) and the garden itself  (950 m²) where Irène and Jean-Pierre Duchemin have artfully grouped plantings in separate beds.  There is the exotic bed, the hydrangea bed, the seaside bed (mainly in greys), and the specimen bed with euphorbias, cornus and viburnums competing for pride of place.  The common denominator to be found in all the various plantings schemes, is an urbane sense of good taste.

Collections

• roses (climbers, English and old roses)
• hydrangeas

Outstanding plants

• Hydrangea seemannii, an evergreen climber
• Schizophragma hydrangeoides, a rare climber with hydrangea-like flowers
• Cornus florida ‘White Cloud’
• Viburnum dilatatum

Surface

• 1 600 m²