The Garden
"Beauty comes from the diversity of life..."
"La beauté nait de la diversité du vivant ..."
Francis Hallé
"More than ever, we are committed to preserving
the natural environment around us.
The Remarkable Garden label
gives our park a very special value!
At the bend in the Bois Percés, a unique landscape design
in Gironde dating back to the 18th century, we catch sight of the
facade of the Château. At the end of the main driveway, the giant sequoia
marks the horizon...
Here, everything is serenity and wonder!"
The Garden ... a Remarkable Garden
The gently sloping avenue of honour creates a perspective as it passes through a woodland of oak and hornbeam trees, a space created in the 18th century (appearing on Pierre de Belleyme's map in 1766) called Bois Percés, divided by paths with green rooms at the crossroads. Everything is arranged symmetrically. The plant palette consists of pedunculate oaks, red oaks, lime trees, sycamore and plane trees, robinia, hornbeam, ash trees, chestnut trees and plane trees.
The connection between the formal garden and the landscaped garden is organised around the Serpentine. The Serpentine River is the symbol of naturalistic gardens. Its shape was redesigned in the 19th century into a ribbon or S shape by Siaurac.
The landscaped park designed by Louis-Bernard Fischer is home to some remarkable trees: a 350-year-old holm oak, a 250-year-old pyramid oak, an Atlas cedar, a Virginia tulip tree, a giant sequoia, and more. The walking paths are laid out in a flowing pattern from the castle steps. Groves of trees and shrubs surround the park: sweetgum, chestnut, birch, Apollo and Alexandria laurel, boxwood, and more. The grand perspective from the steps offers a unique view of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Emilion.
The Garden a Remarkable Garden
The gently sloping avenue of honour creates a perspective as it passes through an undergrowth of oak and hornbeam trees, an area shaped in the 18th century (appearing on Pierre de Belleyme's map in 1766) called Bois Percés, divided by paths with green rooms at the crossroads. Everything is organised symmetrically. The plant palette consists of pedunculate oaks, red oaks, lime trees, plane trees and sycamores, robinia, hornbeams, ash trees, chestnut trees and plane trees.
The connection between the formal garden and the landscaped garden is organised around the Serpentine. The Serpentine river is the symbol of naturalistic gardens. Its shape was redesigned in the 19th century into a ribbon or S shape by Siaurac.
The landscaped park designed by Louis-Bernard Fischer* is home to some remarkable trees: a 350-year-old holm oak, a 250-year-old pyramid oak, an Atlas cedar, a Virginia tulip tree, a 130-year-old giant sequoia (36 m), and more. The walking paths are laid out in a flowing pattern from the castle steps. Groves of trees and shrubs enclose the park: sweetgum, chestnut, birch, Apollo's laurel, Alexandrian laurel, boxwood, and more.
The sweeping view from the steps offers a unique perspective of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Emilion.
Who is Louis-Bernard Fischer? (lien vers le site)
Louis-Bernard Fischer, born on 3 April 1810 in Villenave-d'Ornon and died on 19 August 1873 in Bordeaux, Gironde, was a French gardener, horticulturist, landscape designer and even architect.
Louis-Bernard Fischer's most famous creation is undoubtedly Bordeaux's Jardin Public park, the plans for which he submitted to the city in 1854 with the help of his partner and friend Jean-Alphonse Escarpit, a renowned landscape architect. He was the one who breathed new life into this garden, which had almost disappeared during the Revolution, damaged by lack of maintenance, revolutionary celebrations and the passage of Napoleon's armies.
Several dozen English-style parks in the Bordeaux region are the fruit of their imagination and artistic creativity, embellishing grand cru vineyards: in Bordeaux, the Carmes Haut-Brion; Cantemerle for the Villeneuve de Durfort family in Macau; Château Tauzia in Gradignan for the wine merchant and Swedish Consul General Gustave Petersen; and the grounds of Château Filhot in Sauternes... Château de Roquetaillade, Château de Pitray and Château Siaurac in Néac.
Louis-Bernard Fischer died on 19 August 1873 in Bordeaux without any descendants or children. His sole heir was a Bordeaux nurseryman named Jean-Pierre Borderie, from whom he used to buy supplies, and who consequently inherited several uprooted trees and horticultural equipment worth 7,979 francs, as well as 34 acres of land. A more detailed study of his holographic will, if it is still in the records of the notary Rambaud in Bordeaux, would provide more information about Fischer's furniture and other personal effects.
Although his talent as a landscape architect was recognised by many notable figures and landowners, he has not been the subject of much interest among historians. However, his remarkable career serves to highlight the contribution made by Bordeaux's German community to the economic and social development of the city.