Château de Vandrimare

Seeing the park at Château de Vandrimare was very interesting, I think it was the one garden that I missed the first time I was in Normandy since for some reason I had the wrong opening times. Seeing it now with our wonderful group did not go quite perfectly either.

We were shown around by the owner himself who was really knowledgeable and had collected some wonderful trees, shrubs and perennials to the garden. The problem was just the weather that did not play ball. Despite our visit being in the middle of May, it was very windy and at one point it hailed!

It hailedMespilus germanica, one of many rare trees

I suspect this was a Magnolia sinensis

The flower on this tree peony was enormous.