Summer

Summer : the floral symphony. 

June:  the beginning of the month will enchant the lovers of the blue and mauve garden. The blue, mauve or crimson irises, set in sheets or borders, reign on both gardens. The blue ones often being planted as a light shade in order to highlight it at best. Among the flowers associated to irises, it is good to add the lavand-blue small bells of the precocious "Phacelia tanacetifolia’’. On the banks of the water garden, the irises rise in groups separated from each others by marsh marigolds (Caltha palustris), yellow flower large buttercups (Ranunculus), purple ‘’salicaires’’ (Lythrum). The season advances towards flaming red and high rose colors. Sawn in deep earth, oriental poppies (Papaver orientalis) start their ravishing show, as well as vivid peonies. Rose trees rise up in unreal blossoming by means of exuberance ! Modest and wild rose trees such as (R. eglanteria), botanic rose trees (R. pimpinellifolia), remarkable ones as the "English climber’’ one (R. ‘Paul’s Scarlet Climber) or Monet’s favourite rose tree (R. ‘Mermaid) the one he had settled down just below his bedroom’s window. At this time, the six arches of the large lane are submerged by a profusion of roses. At their feet, ribbons of crawling nasturtium, emerging from hundreds of flowers lining the lane, look like stretching out toward the house. In the water garden, the Japanese bridge almost disappears under the glycines which express themselves in sumptuous cascades of perfumed mauve flowers (Wisteria floribunda "Multijuga" and W. sinensis) and white flowers. (W. f.‘Alba’ et W. s. ‘Alba’). A little bit farther, on the banks, rhododendrons and ‘’kalmias’’ are still flourishing. ‘’Nymphéas’’ start their blossoming successively until September.

 
July : new blossoming appear, among them, a large amount of holly-hock roses (Alcea), "pieds-d’alouette’’ (Delphinum) and "cléomes’’ (Cleome) with their captivating perfume. Large plants, high on their stems and often held by stakes dominate the clumps and flower beds.
China asters (Callistephus chinensis) arrive in the garden indicating the end of annual plantations which are closely supervised in order to avoid their proliferation.
 
August : the garden reaches its apogee. Every four years, irises are taken off; the only sound parts of the rhizomes are kept and then replanted. The clumps are sterilized in order to avoid proliferation of leaf devourers cockchafer grubs and slugs. During this month, gardeners are paying a very big attention to the barometer, because every stormy rain would mean the fall of long stems and the chopping of flowers. In the water garden, glycines are trimmed in order to encourage a new blossoming. Ferns and large bamboos bring their coolness to the place while creating again the illusion of a Japanese landscape.
 
 
Flowering at summer:
 
Jully : Roses, and all annual plants at the beginning of their blossoming: Nasturtium, Snapdraggon, Tobaccos, Salvias, Vervains, Sunflowers, Sanvitalias, Coréopsis, Dahlias, Cleomes, Cosmos, Rudbeckias, Gladiolus, Ageratums, Holly hocks... Beginning of the Nenuphars (water lilies)
 
August : Dahlias, Cosmos, Hibiscus... End of the "Nenuphars’’.