A real balcony on the sea, this Cotentin garden houses botanical rarities

As for many years and in connection with the Cotentin Côté Jardins association, the Jardin de la Blanche-Maison in Urville-Nacqueville (Manche) opens its doors to visitors THE Sundays July 20 and 27, 2025 then them August 3, 10 and 17 From 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. as well as by appointment in July-August.

It has been more than thirty years since 1986, that Isabelle and Michaël Potel have brought together hydrangeas in their vast steep field in Urville-Nacqueville, real balcony on the sea.

Over 500 varieties

Extremely rare subjects, some with a rusticity so weak that they can only proliferate on this North Coast of Cotentin favored by a extreme sweetness. Today, this Dazzling collection brings together more than 500 varieties. She enthusiastically enthusiastically and the different shades subtly juxtaposed declining in seven gardens.

Approved by the CCVS (Conservatoire des Collections Vegetales Specialized) for 12 years as a collection of Hydrangeas, the Jardin de la Blanche-Maison has obtained this year the label Collection nationale For Hydrangeas Asperaes in association with the city of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.

There is several new features to have this year including Hydrangea Kazan, recent creation Japanese to big flower balls of a pearly pink, or the Robusta hydranga brought back by an botanist of an expedition to the Arunachal Pradesh (northern Bengal).

Arborescent ferns

All the new leaves of this Hydrangea are red with bush, the flat -headed flower is purple and white. Other botanical raritythe Hydrangea Aspera Gongshan discovered about twenty years ago by Tom Hudson, an English botanist owner of the garden of Tregrehan, in Cornwallduring a shipping In the southwest of Yunnan in Chine.

In addition to the Hydrangeas, you can also discover a rich diversity of arborescent ferns, many of whom in acclimatization And from various countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile or Malaysia and New Caledonia.

Of our correspondent Philippe Quevastre

Access: From Cherbourg, take the coastal road (D45) Direction Urville-Nacqueville. At the roundabout, 3ᵉ outing, access path signalized by Blanche-Maison. Parking at the entrance to the garden. Isabelle and Michaël Potel, Blanche-Maison, 874 rue Saint-Laurent, Urville-Nacqueville. Telephone: 06 87 55 15 42.

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