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Le
Mesnil Geoffroy
The
castle of le Mesnil Geoffroy was built during the 17th and 18th
century by De La Heuze and Lannoy de Bellegarde in the heart of Normandy
The
park 'a la francaise' was drawn by Colinet, who was the first
gardener to Le Notre, the architect of Versailles' gardens.
The
garden was left neglected for twenty years and the current owners,
The Prince and Princess Kayali, restored the gardens to their
original style, with its perspectives, statues and vases and
the courtyard boarded with buxus' cushions.
Created
in 1998, the two rosaries includes 2500 roses representing 1187
different varieties.
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The
'roseraie des couleurs' (the colour rosary) and the 'roseraie des
parfums' (the perfumed rosary), which allowed its gardener to earn
the prize for the best gardener of France (meilleur Jardinier de
France), is considered as a rosary-conservatory.
In
order to protect endangered roses, the Mesnil Geoffroy's rosary is
exchanging cuttings with L'Haye les Roses, the famous rosary near Paris. |
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