Family owned for 22 generations, the garden is open to the public since 1987. Originally laid out in the 18th century as a formal French garden and redesigned in the 19th century in the English style, the gardens were completely redesigned by the present owner’s father in the 1960s. Today’s appearance is based on old manuscripts and illustrations and combines aspects of a ‘grand siècle’ Renaissance garden with medieval kitchen gardens and a contemporary evergreen design.
More than three hundred box and yew sculptures line large avenues and demonstrate the excellence of the art of topiary with scissors, string, and plumb bob.
The seven landscape gardens include a white rose garden with over five hundred white roses, a water garden with five pools, fountains and water features, a flower garden, a cottage garden, and a kitchen garden. Alongside the structured gardens, which showcase the essential elements of horticulture, there are colourful and poetic worlds of pine, hornbeam and cypress groves and colourful flower beds that create a rural atmosphere. An avenue of Atlas cedars separates the vegetable garden from the flower garden. There is an extensive programme of garden tours given by the head gardener and the owners, as well as courses in tree care and pruning.
