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Les Jardins de Séricourt : la transmission d’une passion by Guillaume GOSSE DE GORRE – Château de Bénouville
The Jardins de Séricourt : passing on a passion
The Jardins de Séricourt were initiated in 1983 by Yves Gosse. Since 2007, along with Guillaume Gosse de Gorre, he has been working towards developing these gardens and creating new areas. The gardens are a laboratory within which they explore the great wealth offered by plants, via ideas inspired by their cultivation and their history (at both regional and personal levels). These gardens are places where man connives with nature to present it in all its complexity and in its finest expression. At Séricourt, they are not looking to create a consensual or polished area; there are not “flowers all the time”, but there is (or at least they strive to create), “all the time”, a poetic and surprising atmosphere in which, via the opening of its buds, its blossoming, its structure, its foliage, its bearing… each and every plant fully expresses its wealth over the seasons. Perhaps it is by passing on a certain philosophy and a passion that one passes on a garden…
Guillaume Gosse de Gorre
Guillaume Gosse de Gorre is an engineer (La Salle Beauvais) and an ENSP – National School of Landscape Architecture (Versailles) graduate. And even if he had it “in his blood”, he owes his vocation as a landscaper to his travels and the many gardens he has visited across the globe. Without for as much renouncing the legacy left by his father, he is particularly attached to creating atmospheres in which order and disorder, structure and fantasy intermingle. He is also in tune with the times via his great attachment to environmental preservation.
Further reading :
Les Jardins de Séricourt, Franck Boucourt, Ulmer, 2014