The twisting lanes of the Mont-Saint-Michel countryside lead to one of the most clever and remarkable garden of the late twentieth century.
La Ballue Garden, with its structure of “ourdoor rooms”, linked by vistas and furnished with all sorts of topiary, recalls the Italien mannerist style and the japanese Yin Yang inspiration of its creators Paul Maymont & François Hebert Stevens.
Laid out over thirty years ago an astonishing variety of effects have
been created which are marked intrinsically by a sense of «wonder». «Wonder» is the key-word of the mannerist celebrations held at La Ballue, celebrations in which phantasmagorical images changed form and meaning, dramatic effects distinguished by the three dimensional & organic design, groups of sculptured allegorical figures in movement..
Variety and liveliness as characteristic of the baroque garden is achieved here by variation in all the structural elements, in scent and colour, in appearance and sounds and in the contemporary statues, mostly grotesques & monsters.

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