The Seasons at Eyrignac

You may remember that we went on a guided tour of the gardens at Eyrignac, a Manor house garden known throughout France.  We have visited this garden a few times with guests but, seeing it out of 'tourist' season was a lovely different experience and we decided to take out a season ticket so that we could see the changing seasons in this impressive garden.

The first change we noticed was in the sculpted Hornbeam hedges.

 These hedges are impressive winter or summer but our guide did mention that every 15 to 20 years they cut them hard back ... and the time had arrived!

They were cut back in February and will take about 2 years to grow back to size!

One area is known as the White Garden and is planted with white daffodils and white hyacinths.  It gets whiter as the year progresses.

We will report further after subsequent visits.