Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Floral Park Apremont-sur-Allier

    Second post for you today.

    Floral Park Apremont-sur-Allier, in France, is simply breathtaking. Open to the public in 1977, it receives around 40,000 annual visitors. Here is part of the story behind it.

    As a teenager, Gilles de Brissac visited England and and was spellbound by its wonderful gardens. At the end of the summer of his fifteenth birthday, Gilles returned to France and started passionately to restructure the gardens of the family castle in the Chevreuse Valley, under the watchful eye of his mother May, Duchesse de Brissac. Continuing his training, especially alongside Russell Page and Charles de Noailles, and perfecting his taste by visiting gardens around the world, Gilles becomes a professional landscape gardener.

    Thirty years later, he became a landscape painter, and created one of the most beautiful parks in France.

    Until his death in
    2002, Gilles de Brissac continued refining his work. Today, the torch was taken over by his sister, Elvira.


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    The pergola is covered with white, fragrant clusters of wisteria, Wisteria floribunda 'Alba'.

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    Photography by Patrick Smith.
    All images and information from here.

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Interiors and Gardens by Sandy Koepke

Celebrity Home: Sting's Backyard


    Typical Tuscan architecture. The 16th-century villa was built as a hunting lodge for the dukes of San Clemente.


    Chinese wisteria covers the 118-foot-long oak pergola.


    An antique marble fountain rises out of the boxwood parterre.


    Clipped boxwood frames beds of lavender, santolina, and white oleander.


    An ancient cedar of Lebanon overlooks the parterre, formally known as Il Giardino dei Limoni, or garden of the lemon trees.


    Sting came up with the idea for the oversize chessboard.




    Lunch on a gravel terrace in the shade of an oak tree.


    The pool, installed by a previous owner, overlooks the Valdarno Superiore valley.

    Photography by Giancarlo Gardin
    Portrait by Jaime Travezan
    All images and information from Architectural Digest.

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Photographer Robin Stubbert

    Good Monday morning to all of you dear readers!

    Back in April 2010 I featured the work of oh so talented photographer Robin Stubbert. I'm not quite sure what happened but after some time the pics looked fuzzy so I have deleted that post and am making a new one with the same photographs and some new ones she has added to her site as well.
    Robin specializes in interiors, still life, gardens and lifestyle, and books and magazines.
    Come enjoy with me!

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