n°6 Les Cuillers de Merquetot

Jobourg

With Alderney as a backdrop, a young garden with plenty of promise

This is a newish garden, full of flowers and at the mercy of the coastal winds sweeping the tip of the Hague Peninsular.  It has a remarkable view of Alderney over the sea where the strongest currents in Europe race past the lighthouse at Goury.

Some dry stone walls, typical of the Hague area are incorporated along with two little water features, raised ponds jealously guarded by their gargoyles.  All around the house you will find a variety of different spaces (a pot garden, a vegetable plot, mixed borders) where Sophie and Alain Marchant joyfully indulge their imaginations and creativity.

Collections

• Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans …) and biannual (Echium pininana, E. simplex, E. wildpretii…)
• Annuals and perennials

Outstanding plantes

• Metrosideros x subtomentosa
• Dasylirion acrotrichum
• Eucryphia nymansensis ‘Nymansay’
• Eucryphia lucida
• Tibouchina urvilleana
• Romneya coulteri
• solanums (amygdaloides, rantonetti and jasminoides)
• Sciadopitys verticillata....

Surface

• 3 500 m²