Jardin de Sericourt
Winner of the "Best Park in France 2005 prize" . This large garden, which covers 4 hectares, has a series of garden "rooms" and alleys linking different areas. A lot of the structure is given with clipped box and there is one particularly beautiful alley which passes through box clipped into cones and spirals and balls all along the route. Another area has an "army " of clipped box with lots of upright columns all grouped together
The "rose cathedral", a massive rose tunnel is a highlight but also the use of climbing roses to cover large trees in the garden is a treat .
The geometric garden is a kind of parterre filled with hemerocallus, asters and other perennials and is particularly beautiful in the autumn.
In the canopy of the trees are some incredibly large hostas. One of my favourite plants I must admit and a pleasure to see growing with such abandon.
Jardin de Sericourt
It always cheers me up to find there is a garden centre attached to a beautiful garden so that I can buy some of the plants that have inspired me and take them back to try and recreate some of the planting combinations or layouts I have seen. Here there is a very good "pepiniere" (garden centre), so good it has been featured in magazines in the UK, Holland and Italy!
Garden Guide:
The garden is open the first of May to the 31 October from 9h00 - 18h00 Tuesday to Saturday and 15h00 to 18h00 Monday and Sunday. From the 1st November to the 30 April, Monday to Saturday 9h00 - 18h00.
This garden is situated to the West of Lille, south of Dunkerque
Address:
Le Jardin de Sericourt
62270 Séricourt
Tél : 03 21 03 64 42