Visit of the Colombier garden

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It is in the heart of Aveyron, in a setting steeped in history that you can visit the charming Colombier garden, a garden that is as much of the Garden of Eden as the parish priest's garden. To conceive the layout, the cultures and the smallest details, its creators extensively documented themselves through writings and iconographic documents dating from medieval times. They thus rebuilt the garden in the immediate vicinity of the castle, on the site of the old walled garden. After the earthworks intended to level the ground and remove the rocks, the ground was ready to receive the fruitful inspiration of its creators. A few years later, he presented five faces to visitors who had come to dream of stories of princesses and beautiful knights of yesteryear: the Garden of Curiosities, the carpet of a Thousand Flowers, the Garden of References, the Orchard and the Grande Rocaille. In total, nearly 350 species of plants and shrubs flourish there, all already cultivated in Europe between the 5th and 15th centuries. Let's go for a lesson in botany mixed with the history of long ago!

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Lapeyre Like the medieval gardens, the Colombier garden was created in an enclosed space. What happiness for insects and lizards that these dry stone walls overflowing with nooks and warmth!

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Arthus In the interior space thus delimited, the cultures are carried out in square or rectangular flowerbeds, delimited by boards.

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Peony and iris colonges brighten up the garden with their spring blooms. Apple and quince trees planted along the stone wall will wait for fall to offer their fruits to visitors.

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Bourgeois In its layout and its cultures, the medieval garden makes many nods to the Garden of Eden. Is this beautiful apple tree a descendant of the one who caused the fall of Eve?

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Arthus Chairs scattered here and there under the arbors covered with vines indicate to the passer-by that it is time to take the time…

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Arthus What symbols in this beautiful scene! From this octagonal basin spring four jets which start from the four cardinal points and which each represent one of the four rivers of paradise: the Tiger, the Euphrates, the Gihon and the Pishon.

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Arthus What better setting than that of a medieval garden to taste the charm of the Damascus roses?

Visit of the Colombier garden

Le Colombier - Lapeyre When history looks at us, we leave nothing to chance! Thus, the choice of cultivated plants which is limited to varieties listed in Europe between the 5th and 15th centuries.