Comments on: Please visit the Jardin Plume before it becomes over copied

By: Adam Hodge

Adam Hodge — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:12:39 +0000

I recently visited Le Jardin Plume having previously looked around Jardins d’Angelique. Perhaps the visit should have been done the other way round ! Whilst Le J P was interesting, for me it seemed almost embryonic in its potential ! The views are lovely and yet it has a simple sqaure pond -le Bassin Mirroir which seemed such a timid piece of water..it needed some of the boldness of Courance, Champ de Bataille or even V le Vicomte to complement the borrowed landscape. The French have used water in amazing ways { I think especially of Parc de Sceaux, not to mention Versailles or Vaux le Vicomte and Le J P could add a very exciting element with a similarly bold use of water.

By: Brian Webster

Brian Webster — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:48:04 +0000

Dear garden Creators….I recently visited your Delightful garden, as a member of the Country-farm-perennials Group, from Australia, and would like to say how much I enjoyed our Visit, to your beautifull, & imaginative Gardening Concept… Well done !!!!
Over the period of the whole Month of September, we visited many Grand Chateaux, and their very elaborate Partere Gardens, but yours stays in my mind for both Originalty & Presentation.

Warmest Regards…..Brian

By: Marian

Marian — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:57:22 +0000

Thanks for the book tip Tom, I had been wondering what to write about.. I have been pondering your classification and thought it wonderfully down to earth after having heard all sorts of hyperbole about the garden being compared to the columns in Cordoba etc. However my immediate reaction was that the garden is more original than French Arts and Crafts, being quite monumental in layout albeit soft in planting effect. I asked Patrick Quibel whether he saw the garden as Arts and Crafts but he did not really get a chance to reply, perhaps he will join our debate! Could you give me your reasons for seeing it thus?

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:38:00 +0000

Jardin Plume looks fantastic! And for such a formal inspiration – it seems to have the relaxed feel (ambience) of a true country property in Australia.

I am particularly taken by the Bassin mirror!

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:11:51 +0000

Thank you: I have put Jardin Plume on my, rather long, ‘gardens to visit’ list. After looking at your photographs and reading your text, I feel challenged to categorize the style and my prima facie attempt is ‘French Arts and Crafts’. There is a book to be written on the way in which the A&C aesthetic has been, and is being, interpreted in different countries.