{"id":1369,"date":"2024-01-17T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesjardinsdekerdalo.com\/?page_id=1369"},"modified":"2024-03-01T16:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:42:31","slug":"the-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lesjardinsdekerdalo.com\/?page_id=1369&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Born in 1901 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, as a child, Prince Peter Wolkonsky discovered a passion for plants while sneaking into the kitchen garden of the czar, who lived in the palace next door\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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He spent the first part of his life painting plants and landscapes during a Grand Tour that would take him from North Africa to Provence, passing through Italy. Then, he took up residence near Paris and conceived his first garden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In 1965, he discovered the Orchard that would become Kerdalo, a former farm overlooking the Jaudy river, which faces the old town of Tr\u00e9guier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A visionary, he already realized that importance water would have in the flourishing of his garden, and he chose to situate in on a hilly piece of land on which several springs flow. He harnessed their waters to create a garden punctuated with ponds, waterfalls, water stairs, an Italian grotto and pavilions decorated with shells.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab Over the last 25 years, what I have tried to accomplish at Kerdalo is an enclosed world, both natural and constructed, as if it had been retouched with a personal sensitivity and taste. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P. Wolkonsky<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With the help of some great nurserymen like Harold Hillier of Winchester, he created a painter\u2019s garden of English-Italian inspiration, the very opposite of academic landscaping, which places plants in circles and squares according to a plan controlled by metrics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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He visualized in his head associations of colours and textures that would evolve over the seasons. More than 5,000 plants have thus found their place in these 17 hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon his death in 1997, his daughter Isabelle and her husband Timothy took responsibility for Kerdalo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fragile, and at the mercy of time, climatic changes and pollution, Kerdalo is a magical world, nestled up, enclosed, secret, both natural and designed, a cross between a botanical and a romantic universe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/main>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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