From dreams to reality
a photo gallery of our gardens

The Mediterranean garden, the unveiling of a garden

The Mediterranean garden is inspired by all the beauty found in our southern landscapes. It does however require careful structuring, and needs a certain amount of watering. Cistus, lavender and rosemary, as well as different sages, gauras, and perovskias share the scene in well-planned harmony.

Our eyes follow a paved “calade” pathway to a fountain whose gentle splashing calms all around.
Stacked “lauze” stone slabs give a delightful structure to the garden and create a home for carefully selected Mediterranean plant varieties. Like all other types of garden, the Mediterranean style creates an additional open-air living place for your home.

Colors and scents

The wonderful blue sky and sunshine of our Provence give you a never-ending incentive to be outdoors.
A flowering jasmine beside a window, rosemary on a planted bank, verbena in pots, and a gentle morning breeze merge to create heady fragrances.

Beside the swimming pool, outdoor living as soon as summer is on the way

When spring arrives, we can’t wait to spend time outdoors. The sun, the singing cicadas, and the rising temperatures all push us to abandon our sober work clothes for a light summer wardrobe, and stretch out on a sun lounger facing the pool, where the blue water reflects the sky. Surrounded by a flourishing garden, sitting or lying in the shade while you read the latest from a favorite author, you soak in the pleasure of your poolside haven.

Summer goes by so quickly, you need to make the most of:

• the pool house, with its wood-fired oven that is the centerpiece of memorable evenings
• the wooden decking, where you gently acquire the perfect summer tan
• the surrounding green of the garden, contributing its freshness
• the relaxation offered by a spa pool

The composition of your pool’s surroundings is a major factor contributing to summers full of laughter, joy, relaxation - and calm breaks, in peace and quiet.

Property entrances, an irresistible invitation

The property entrance is the gateway to a world full of gentle beauty. Driveways bordered with ancient olive trees and lavender, rows of Florentine cypress or lines of rose bushes call out an invitation to come in and see more.
The creation of a traffic circle or a rotunda encourages gradual discovery of the property, and simplifies vehicle movement.

Fountains, the living spirit of the garden

"Water has always been an essential element in the life of gardens, it gives life in all senses of the word … But it is also a gentle, discrete presence, musical, a metaphor we can find in the form of ponds, fountains, or little canals …"

from Jacques Boysseau de la Barraudière.
— Treatise on gardening based on the reasons of nature and of art (1638).

An invitation to a stroll…

• Japanese stepping stones
• Paving
• Provencal Calade paths
• Gravel or grass alleys
• Clapicette sand
• Slates

There are so many materials possible when designing the paths through and around a garden, to guide walkers in their discoveries. When we prepare a garden plan, we can associate the walkways with their structural elements to contribute texture, for example with a calade pathway that will add refinement and perspective to your stroll.

Lavender fields, a purple sea

Lavender fields are well known worldwide for their hypnotizing purple color, fascinating for photographers, bridal couples, and beekeepers.
Here in Provence, the rows of lavender that in some places can extend out of sight offer an enchanting, colorful scene. Peaceful areas, they encourage contemplation and relaxation.

For your future garden, we can create lavender fields, alleys, or borders.

Balls and Karikomi

Ball-shaped trimming is a decorative technique applied to certain trees or bushes. It is used especially for trimming ornamental trees.

Most dense, low-crowned trees can be trimmed into ball shapes. However, the most common ball-shaped varieties include box, yew, privet, holm oak, viburnum, and also rosemary, bush honeysuckle, teucrium, etc.

The Karikomi style is a Japanese trimming method somewhat like topiary art.

Planted steps – aromatic staircases – stone or wood steps…

A garden is rarely flat – especially here in Provence.

With different levels, areas developed around different styles can be created. To link these spaces, steps from the most basic to the most sophisticated not only take you up and down, but also contribute their own charm, and give a touch of poetry to the whole garden.

Fieldstones, shaped stones, Provence calade stones, lauze slabs…

Structuring the space, a functional or aesthetic element, the mineral touch in harmony with the vegetation contributes its own architecture and texture, its character, to your garden. Walls, low dry stone retaining walls, upright lauze slabs, in lines and many other shapes, participate in the overall balance and coherence of the landscaped area. From contemporary to the purest traditional style, we can implement our know-how, putting our skills in construction techniques and the use of different materials into practice when creating the masonry work for your garden.

What Nature offers and what Human Beings shape…

With their different uses and construction techniques, dry stone (also called companion stone) and cut stone (as found in the great classical works) are part of garden architecture, structuring the space and adding the atmosphere given by their particular nobility and character.

Or the art of reusing the leftovers

Calade paving – paving – stonework
Unlike the noble paved grounds of rich mansions, the Provencal calade has its roots in the working class, as can be seen in its very simple basic materials and construction techniques.

The vegetable garden

A vegetable garden is a sector that needs to be decided on at the very beginning of the planning studies, as its layout must take many technical criteria into account. The best results are associated with a south-facing location, protected from the fierce Mistral wind and basking in the best sun exposure possible.

Your vegetable garden can be arranged in different ways: decide if you prefer a ground level layout, surrounded by wooden beams, metallic or upright lauze borders, or perhaps aboveground boxing customized with the same materials, or even pottery containers.

It may just contain aromatic herbs such as rosemary, savory, oregano, verbena, thyme, sage… or be composed of colorful, delicious vegetables. With so many elements possible, you are sure to give a special touch to your little pleasure garden.

Remember that a vegetable garden requires special daily care. New shoots must be attached, watering must be managed, wilted leaves cut off, long-stemmed vegetables staked, and weeding done… but all these efforts will be rewarded by the harvest!

What can give greater satisfaction than preparing your summer salads or winter soups with your own vegetables and aromatic herbs, whose development you have followed with so much love and excitement. The fragrances of fresh herbs delight the nose, and encourage us to plan delicious future meals.

The vegetable garden is also a place the family can share. It’s a wonderful way to make lasting memories, sharing a common goal. Children can learn to plant, look after, and harvest their own fruit and vegetables.
As parents, you can pass on your knowledge about how important healthy food is. Working together in the garden as a family is a satisfying activity where your shared emotions bring you even closer.

Petanque court: do you shoot or point!

A petanque court or boules alley is a fun place where young and old unite in fiercely-fought or hilarious competitions. Carefully positioned benches enable spectators to encourage the players and comment on the games.

By day or night, with the cicadas’ song or the cheers of the spectators, the petanque court will be a lively place where it’s fun to spend some time.

It can even be transformed into a reception area when needed.

Pot gardens, a style apart

Today pot gardens are recognized as having their own style. Planting the flowers or the trees and shrubs is only the final touch: the deciding factor is your choice of pots. This concerns the size, the material, the manufacturing quality, as well as the model and the home atmosphere sought.

A pot garden can host oleanders, boxwood, olive trees, citrus trees, hydrangeas, geraniums, fuchsias, dipladenias, rose bushes... There are so many colorful – and fashionable - varieties that can give a unique personal touch to your garden.

Contemporary gardens, where design goes with minimalism

This uncluttered garden with its geometric lines focuses on the modern spirit given to contemporary gardens.
It is the extension of a house, and is as important as the interior layout of your home.
Rectilinear, cubic, with touches of color, the minimalist garden can highlight key elements of your property.

A garden inspired by Japan

The composition of a Japanese garden follows three main principles: a miniature reproduction of nature, symbolism, and the capture of landscapes.

Miniaturization seeks to represent different scenes (mountains, lakes, rivers, a sea) within a limited space.
Not just a size reduction, it reduces complexity, and simplicity is an important feature in most Japanese styles.

The symbolism comes from the religious aspect of the first proto-gardens. It is also part of simplification.

Lastly, capturing landscapes makes use of more distant aspects outside the garden itself (buildings, hills, the sea) in the composition of a scene.
It acts in harmony with the limits imposed on the garden to merge with a wider context.

The classical garden, a well-tended extended garden

The classical garden, which can also be called a French-style garden, is structured, tamed, playing on perspective and symmetry. It is a meticulously trimmed garden, highlighting topiary art. Its rows of greenery must be perfectly aligned. Nothing is left to chance.

The special features of this kind of garden are order and rigor. It seeks perfection, balance, and harmony, and has the advantage of being beautiful throughout the year. Complex and very elaborate, it requires especially demanding care (trimming, planting, monitored watering …) to keep it in a perfect state.

Synthetic lawns, green all year round

Synthetic lawn areas surrounded by discrete metal borders and set in scented flower-filled massifs, creating a green Eden all year round.

Gardens around a pond, in harmony with the water

Gardens surrounding a pond can be perfect places to relax and make the most of nature’s beauty. Plants such as water lilies, water irises, and reeds add to the color and texture of your garden. A pond gives a new personality to your garden, and creates a peaceful atmosphere.