Wednesday, July 30, we will, at 4 (auntie, Claude (a friend of Normandy), Amandine and I) visit the Gardens of the Imagination in Terrasson-Lavilledieu. We take the entrance tickets Genouillace Square, right next to the parking lot and in front of the entrance to the Gardens. We can not visit the gardens that tour. We cross the road where the guide gives us some information about the fountain and the fact that it is part of a theme gardens: the melody of the water.

The entrance to the Gardens consists of a meandering walkway side-by-side with a kind of small aqueduct. The grids are straight, while the path is curved, it will be found anywhere between the lines and curves of human nature. The first ascent, we find ourselves surrounded by boxwood, following the contour of the land.

Gardens, established in 1996, cover an area of a little over 6 acres, all stepped terraces overlooking the Vézère and leaning against the old town of Terrasson.

Having passed the green tunnel (consisting of hops, wisteria, jasmine and other climbing plants), we follow the breadcrumb trail, a gold ribbon suspended between trees and that leads us to the garden of moss:

Here is 2,000 roses, 20,000 perennials, 2,500 feet of boxwood (currently form due to parasitic caterpillar from China worries voraciously devour the box. It takes a special double products to eradicate them, with difficulty ...), 120 water jets, 8,000 trees and shrubs (including rare species). In all, more than 150 plant species are found in gardens and carefully maintained. Next the top, overlooking the town of Terrasson terrace, we came in sight of the fountains just past the vegetable theater.

There, on the site, a source of water, but so small that it takes a minute to fill a bottle of 2L. So, for the 120 water jets are on a closed loop system, the small source being absolutely unable to provide water for all that. This does not take away in any case the charm of the arrangement.

As people watch the fountains, I took the opportunity to do some macro on various flowers around, gleaned by wasps, bees and other insects:

Going down, we pass under a steel structure following the contour of the ground (again) and housing the roses.

Continuing down, we follow the canal from water jets. Along the way, small waterfalls offer us small light melodies to the famous small natural source who dug through the rock on its merry way.

Near the exit, a beautiful gazebo carved in boxwood, with a view of Terrasson and gardens. In the distance, on the other side of the Vezere, smoke emerges beside a long building, fire maybe?

A last round, we go through the false greenhouse, built dry stone, glass and metal which is currently the Bolide Z1 exposure. The artist LO-renzo built his bolide in 2013, expressed through its contemporary art around the theme of territory, its boundaries and the resulting potential conflicts.
Leaving, small bell-shaped flowers hang above a dry-stone wall.

End of the visit, on the way back to Brive, we stop at the Chocolate Bovetti to do some stock of chocolate and spread chocolate and hazelnuts.
I will do a report on it next year probably.