Parc botanique de Haute Bretagne

parc botanique de Haute Bretagne

THE REST OF EVENING HARMONY​

«Voici venir le temps où vibrant sur sa tige,

Chaque fleur s’évapore ainsi qu’un encensoir, Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige

Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir»

Charles BAUDELAIRE, Harmonie du soir

This garden features a collection of kalmias and moschata roses whose flowering follows one another. It is composed of three parts:

A first terrace surrounded by a charmille.

A central promontory, a plant transposition of the Tetrapylus of Palmyra (monument destroyed in Syria in January 2017 by the Islamic State) which allows you to take a look at the heart of the botanical park.

Then a perspective on the large pond dominated by a turret, marked by two rows of Florence cypresses. This garden is the ideal balcony for observing the twilight sky.

the kalmias

The botanical park maintains a large collection of kalmias grouped around the first terrace of the garden and the tetrapyl. Native to North America, they grow in acidic soils. Their flowers, corymbs of small cups, are particularly spectacular during the first half of June.