Les jardins de cougouille
150 rue Les Hauts du Vivier, 12100 Millau
On the slopes of Millau, facing south, English gardens on a slope of 2,300 m² arranged in small terraces. Bordering the ring road but wonderfully exposed, this land has been modeled in a botanical walk with corners of greenery and views of the famous viaduct and the beautiful valley of the Tarn. Over the years, the garden has been carefully designed, structured, without precise plans but a succession of universes depending on the exposure and the soil. Stone walls and wooden palisades hold the earth and form terraces. Many varieties of plants and shrubs rub shoulders. The plants are adapted to the cold of winter, drought and the hot winds of summer. Common trees have been pruned in cloud: tamarisk, juniper, chamaecyparis. Flowering perennials such as sage, gauras, coreopsis, asphodels. Grown in respect of the environment (winner of the 2012 competition «Gardenez autrement»): compost, mulching, hand weeding, planting in the right place, preservation of regional species, these dry garden
Tags
English garden, Private garden
Access
in Millau, take boulevard du Puech d'Andan then street parallel to the ring road (150 les Hauts du Vivier).
©Andrée Lebrou
