n°13 La Poterie

Lithaire

Shop window for unique garden pottery and stoneware

This garden started in 1999 by Isabelle and Thierry is added to every year by rarities the owners find amongst their plantsmen friends’ collections. Quite strict plantings around the house become more and more effusive on the other side of a riotous curtain of purple phormiums, and finishes by melting into the surrounding hedges of the property.

Nestling under sizeable trees is the shade garden with its luxuriant ferns, mosses and heucheras in juxtaposition with the gravel garden nearby, a minimalist and zen place, where mineral and vegetable elements are married harmoniously. Acess to the oldest part of the garden takes you past damp lovers like ferns and gunneras, after which you wind your way through the sumptuous mixed borders.

Every part of the garden is enhanced by the striking and practical products of the potters’ ovens - time and weather proof pots, borders, labels and decorations for the house, garden, and patio.

Collections

• euphorbias: 25 varieties including ‘Efanthia’, ‘Helena’, ‘Copton Ash’…
• Heuchera: 20 varieties including ‘Lune Rousse’, ‘Petite Pearl Fairy’…
• alpines: Thymus, Acaena …
• ferns: Cyrtomium fortunei, Polystichum...
• Gunnera, 6 different species notably the tiny Gunnera hamiltonii, miniature copy of the giant Gunnera manicata.
• Fuchsias: 10 varieties including ‘Whiteknights Ruby’

Oustanding plants

• Poncirus trifoliata, the woodstock used for citrus fruits with its marvellous white flowers in April
• Hakea microcarpa, a rare Protea
• Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dotty’
• Polygonum scoparium

Surface

• 4 000 m²