It all starts with an accident… That of Edmond Delaporte, a resident of Evreux who spent some time in a wheelchair and who, in search of fresh air and tranquillity, acquired in the mid-1980s this small plot of land, then uncultivated, on the banks of the Seine.
First of all, the garden will gradually become poetry: that of Edmond’s dreams and of her love for Marguerite who accompanies her day after day in the realization of this unique garden that he sets up for her. That of his bright characters. It is also about his vision of the objects he collects and reuses to create his colourful, naive and touching sculptures. Eco-citizen approach ahead of its time?
It is the mill and its irrigation system of the flower bed that will emerge the first from the ground, after which this small garden will take the name of «Moulin Fleuri». Then will come among the flowers and fruit trees all this colorful cement bestiary, imagined and made in winter in a garage in town then transported to the fine days with Marguerite’s little car… And this is how we will see passing on the roads of Normandy and then settling on the banks of the river the singular and joyful inhabitants who are today in front of you!