The day started out foggy but slowly cleared, and the sights and views from these wonderful gardens was stunning, as they sit along a cliff top ridge overlooking the Dordogne river and valley of Vesac.
In the 1860s, the new owner of the château, Julien de Cervel, began to plant thousands of boxwood trees and had them carved in fantastic shapes, many in groups of rounded shapes like flocks of sheep, laid out amongst five kilometers of walks. Today there are 150,000. The garden is described as a folly, and it certainly makes you smile with delight at the sights.
The gardens were left for some years, but restored and reopened in 1996. Today 4 gardeners maintain the grounds, hand clipping the boxwood, as apparently electric shears cause the plants to yellow.
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