Jardin et arboretum de Coursiana
Jardins de Coursiana, 32480 La Romieu
Created in 1992 by their owners, private and hilly park of 6 ha. Today composed of four theme gardens and a leisure lake: • Romantic country-style English garden surrounding the old farmhouse and its stone dovecote, offering a cordial blend of grasses, perennials, 350 roses, annual, evergreen and deciduous shrubs that create a variety of attractive mass effects with heady fragrances such as sarcococca ruscifolia, osmanthus (10 different species and varieties) or chimonanthus praecox, splendid and very rare chestnut tree of California with generous flowering planted in 1961; • garden of medicinal, aromatic and fragrant plants, composed of 400 species and plant varieties installed in the raised plots and paths leading to the basin populated by water lilies and irises surrounded by santolines; • arboretum planted with 400 different species and varieties in 1974 by Gilbert Cours-Darne, eminent botanist who received in 1995 the Olivier de Serres prize (the highest distinction of the Academy
Tags
Jardin remarquable, English garden, Botanical garden or arboretum, Vegetable garden, orchard, Private garden
Access
of Condom, take the D931, then D41 direction La Romieu, place called «La Bourdette» 43° 97' 76.53'' – 0° 49' 31.19''
©M.Delannoy
