Guided tours of the gardens of the manor of Favry
Discovering the art of gardens in Favry, passion sharing
In the middle of the fields, these gardens, as anchored in the past as they are contemporary, blend so well that they give the impression of having always existed. They succeed each other, splitting the places in a mixture of themes, leading us skilfully towards a final climax....
Attached to the seigneurial dwelling, the Daedalus, graphically purified, structured by topiaries of Japan and its checkerboard play in counterpoint, leads to the ornamental orchard. On the square plan, a linear walk is inscribed around the apple trees led in cords and those domesticated in ogive on a central gloriette. The vegetable garden, punctuated by fruit trees in espalier, is guessed through the wicker claustras and willow groves that border the river A surrounding it with its artificial canes of the islands and peninsula, vegetable undulations lead to a very ordered garden. Effect of total surprise!
The charmilles, sublimated by a sculptural cut in waves scenographically baroque, draw cabinets of greenery whose undulating line cuts and intersects. The profile of the cut, its fruit, the rhythm of the undulations, the play of the curves, are a box with geometric topiaries on green carpet. Vanishing lines draw the eye to a rose garden that borders it. Declined in a palette of white, it is embedded in a cross of boxwood punctuated with topiaries and leaning against a bench of laurels from Portugal.
Far from an agreed decor, in a contrast of combed and wild, a theater of greenery was born marrying the landscape in an unexpected refinement.