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La Louve (2008 Film)
La Louve is a private French contemporary garden, open to the public, in the town of Bonnieux in the Vaucluse department of France. It was created beginning in 1986 by Nicole de Vésian, textile designer for the Paris fashion house of Hermès. It is classified by the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Remarkable Gardens of France. Description The gardens are laid out on a series of terraces, and are designed to be in harmony with the surrounding natural landscape. They incorporate local rocks and stones, including stone balls and smooth stones from the Durance River, trees and bushes trimmed into geometric shapes, and wooden benches placed for meditation and contemplation. The garden includes an Arbutus tree shaped by artist Marc Nucera; fig, cherry, apricot and apple trees; roses and iris; and native fragrant plants of the region, including lavender, rosemary, and santolina. History The site was purchased by Nicole de Vésian when she retired from Hermès and devote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnieux
Bonnieux (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,206. In the plain below the village stands the notable Roman bridge the Pont Julien. Geography Bonnieux is one of the many historic "hill villages" in the region. Dating back to Roman Empire, Roman times, it rests on top of the Luberon hills casting a watchful gaze across the rest of the valley. Next to the village is a cedar forest that began with trees imported from North Africa during the Napoleon I of France, Napoleonic era. It sits opposite Mont Ventoux, other notable villages in the area include Ménerbes, Lacoste, Vaucluse, Lacoste, Roussillon, Vaucluse, Roussillon and Gordes. The commune is traversed by the river Calavon. History The region has been occupied since Neolithic times, with evidence scattered throughout the Luberon. Monuments dating from Ancient Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaucluse
Vaucluse (; or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.Populations légales 2019: 84 Vaucluse INSEE The department's is . It is named after a spring, the Fontaine de Vaucluse, one of the largest karst springs in the world. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermès
Hermès International S.A. ( , ) is a French Luxury goods, luxury fashion house established in 1837. It specializes in leather goods, silk goods, lifestyle accessories, home furnishings, perfumery, jewelry, watches and ready-to-wear. Since the 1950s, its logo has been a depiction of a Duke, ducal horse-drawn carriage. History Beginnings in the 19th century Thierry Hermès was born in Krefeld, Germany, to a French father and a German mother. The family moved to France in 1828. In 1837, Hermès first established a Harness saddle, harness workshop in the Boulevards of Paris, Grands Boulevards Quarters of Paris, quarter of Paris, dedicated to serving European noblemen. He created high-quality wrought harnesses and bridles for the carriage trade, winning several awards including the first prize in its class in Exposition Universelle (1855), 1855, and again in Exposition Universelle (1867), 1867, at the World's fair, Expositions Universelles in Paris. Hermès's son, Charles-Émi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remarkable Gardens Of France
The Remarkable Gardens of France is intended to be a list and description, by region, of the more than three hundred gardens classified as ''"Jardins remarquables"'' by the Ministry of Culture (France), Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France. Gardens of Alsace Bas-Rhin * Brumath - Jardin de l'Escalier. (1973) Small private modern romantic floral garden(See Photos)* Kintzheim – The Park of Ruins of the Château de Kintzheim. An early 19th-century romantic landscape garden(See photos)* Kolbsheim – The Garden of the Château de Kolbsheim. (1703) French garden and English landscape park.(See photos)* Ottrott – Le Domaine de Windeck. (1835). Romantic landscape park, with views of the ruined castle of Ottrott(See photos)* Plobsheim – Le Jardin de Marguerite. (1990) Small private English "secret" garden in the Alsatian village of Plobsheim(See photos)* Saverne – Jardin botanique du col de Saverne. Botanical garden in an encl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durance
The Durance (; ''Durença'' in the Occitan classical norm or ''Durènço'' in the Mistralian norm) is a major river in Southeastern France. A left tributary of the Rhône, it is long. Its drainage basin is .Bassin versant : Durance (La) Observatoire Régional Eau et Milieux Aquatiques en PACA Its source is in the southwestern part of the , in the Montgenèvre ski resort near ; it flows southwest through the following |
Arbutus
''Arbutus'' is a genus of 12 accepted speciesAct. Bot. Mex no.99 Pátzcuaro abr. 2012.''Arbutus bicolor''/ref> of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, the Canary Islands and North America, and commonly called madrones or strawberry trees. The name ''Arbutus'' was taken by taxonomists from Latin, where it referred to the species now designated ''Arbutus unedo''. Description ''Arbutus'' are small trees or shrubs with red flaking bark and edible red Berry (botany), berries.Mabberley, D. J. 1997. ''The plant book: A portable dictionary of the vascular plants''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Fruit development is delayed for about five months after pollination, so that flowers appear while the previous year's fruit are ripening. Peak flowering for the genus is in April with peak fruiting in October. History The smooth wood of the tree is mentioned by Theophrastus in his Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris (plant)
''Iris'' is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species with showy flowers. As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common name for all ''Iris'' species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera. A common name for some species is flags, while the plants of the subgenus '' Scorpiris'' are widely known as junos, particularly in horticulture. It is a popular garden flower. The often-segregated, monotypic genera '' Belamcanda'' (blackberry lily, ''I. domestica''), '' Hermodactylus'' (snake's head iris, ''I. tuberosa''), and ''Pardanthopsis'' (vesper iris, '' I. dichotoma'') are currently included in ''Iris''. Three ''Iris'' varieties are used in the ''Iris'' flower data set outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1936 paper ''The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems'' as an example of linear discriminant analysis. Description Irises are perennial plants, growing from creeping rhizomes (rhizomatous irises) or, in drier c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavender
''Lavandula'' (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the sage family, Lamiaceae. It is native plant, native to the Old World, primarily found across the drier, warmer regions of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, with an affinity for maritime breezes. Lavender is found on the Iberian Peninsula and around the entirety of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coastline (including the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coast, the Balkans, the Levant, and coastal North Africa), in parts of East Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa and the Middle East, as well as in South Asia and on the Indian subcontinent. Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. Lavender is used in traditional medicine and as an ingredient in cosmetics. Description The genus includes annual or short-lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary
''Salvia rosmarinus'' (), commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers. It is a member of the sage family, Lamiaceae. The species is native to the Mediterranean region, as well as Portugal and Spain. It has a number of cultivars and its leaves are commonly used as a flavoring. Description Rosemary has a fibrous root system. It forms an aromatic evergreen shrub with leaves similar to '' Tsuga'' needles. Forms range from upright to trailing; the upright forms can reach between tall. The leaves are evergreen, long and broad, green above, and white below, with dense, short, woolly hair. The plant flowers in spring and summer in temperate climates, but the plants can be in constant bloom in warm climates; flowers are white, pink, purple or deep blue. The branches are dotted with groups of 2 to 3 flowers down its length. Rosemary also has a tendency to flower outside its normal flowering season; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santolina
''Santolina'' is a genus of plants in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family, primarily from the western Mediterranean region. They are small evergreen shrubs growing tall. The leaves are simple and minute in some species, or pinnate, finely divided in other species, often densely silvery hairy, and usually aromatic. The composite flowerheads are yellow or white, produced in dense globose capitula 1–2 cm in diameter, on top of slender stems held above the foliage. There are no ray florets. ''Santolina'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including '' Bucculatrix santolinella'' (feeds exclusively on ''S. chamaecyparissus'') and the ''Coleophora'' case-bearers ''C. albicella'' (recorded on ''S. chamaecyparissus''), ''C. involucrella'' (feeds exclusively on ''Santolina spp'') and ''C. santolinella'' (feeds exclusively on ''S. chamaecyparissus''). Species [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardens Of Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur
The Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur () is a list and description of the parks and gardens in the region, which are classified by the Committee of Parks and Gardens of the French Ministry of Culture as among the Notable Gardens of France. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence *Jardins de Salagon in Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Mane. Five modern gardens, including a garden of perfumes, surrounding a 12th-century priory. * Château de Sauvan in Mane. 18th-century château with a ''French formal garden, jardin à la française''. * Clos de Villeneuve in Valensole. 18th-century Provençal bastide with a garden ''à la française''. Hautes-Alpes * Conservatoire botanique national alpin de Gap-Charance in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, Gap. A botanical conservatory devoted to Alpine plants. * Jardin botanique alpin du Lautaret in Villar-d'Arêne. A botanical garden specializing in the flowers and plants of the high Alps. Alpes-Maritimes * Château de la Napoule in Mandelieu-la-Napoule. A res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
