Bonnieux
La Louve Garden
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The garden was awarded the status of 'Jardin Remarquable' (Outstanding Garden) in December 2007 and is planted with a variety of species, arranged in a succession of terraces. Stone elements play an important design role - with stone balls, stone angels and pebbles from the Durance river. There are also a number of wooden benches designed by Nicole de Vésian, offering visitors space to reflect.
La Louve is a complex garden that blends wonderfully with the surrounding countryside - 'the borrowed landscape,' using a restricted range of plants. Its beauty is partly due to the play between the green foliage and landscape.
La Louve was designed and created by Nicole de Vésian, a designer at Hermès who specialised in textiles and turned to gardening later in life. She purchased La Louve in 1986 as a village house with a plot of south-facing wasteland. Over the course of ten years, she transformed the space into a complex work of art, combining stone and topiarised scrubland plants, and thus transformed La Louve into a true Provencal garden. As she turned 80, Nicole de Vésian decided to build a new house, with a garden on a single level, near the top of the village. She then sold La Louve to Judith Pillsbury, an art dealer from Paris and garden expert, who has tended the garden like a curator.
Nowadays Sylvie and Pascal Verger-Lanel maintain the character of each one of the four major garden spaces, replacing plants when necessary with total respect for the original design and layout.
La Louve was designed and created by Nicole de Vésian, a designer at Hermès who specialised in textiles and turned to gardening later in life. She purchased La Louve in 1986 as a village house with a plot of south-facing wasteland. Over the course of ten years, she transformed the space into a complex work of art, combining stone and topiarised scrubland plants, and thus transformed La Louve into a true Provencal garden. As she turned 80, Nicole de Vésian decided to build a new house, with a garden on a single level, near the top of the village. She then sold La Louve to Judith Pillsbury, an art dealer from Paris and garden expert, who has tended the garden like a curator.
Nowadays Sylvie and Pascal Verger-Lanel maintain the character of each one of the four major garden spaces, replacing plants when necessary with total respect for the original design and layout.
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Contact
La Louve Garden84480 Bonnieux
E-Mail :
lejardindelalouve@gmail.com