Does anyone believe in coincidence?
Having just covered the Everedge lawn edging here on Landscape Juice, I got a call from Alex at
Everedge to say that they have a customer in France who is just 45 minutes from me and in the middle of installing their product.
Alex told me that the installation was taking place in Duras and invited me to contact their client direct to discuss a possible visit to see Everedge in situ.
I did indeed call and had a pleasant conversation with the owner of the house and learnt, to my astonishment, that the house was attached to the historic Château de Duras overlooking the Dropt Valley.
I was invited over and asked to contact the gardener who was undertaking the project on the owners behalf.
I spent a good half an hour talking to gardener, Guy Robinson - an Englishmen who has lived in France for the last four years who had set himself up as a Micro Enterprise. We agreed to meet on site the following day and wow! was it a visit that I enjoyed immensely.
The Orangery looks as though it formed part of the fortified hilltop attached to the lower part of Château de Duras with massive walls holding the house into place some sixty feet about a lower garden terrace.
didn't get too much time to take in the house itself because the owner was having a meeting. However, I was taken down through stone caves, which are lines in dressed stone beneath the house, to the garden below where guy was working and overseeing the levelling of hogging as a blinding layer to the stone pathways.
As you can see in the photographs, the layout is impressive with the grid system no dissimilar to the way a French Bastide is laid out.
The 200 metres ProEdge lawn edging will form the definition between the internal grass areas and the gravel pathways.
I had an opportunity to get close up and personal with ProEdge and I must say, it really is a very robust product. ProEdge comes in 2.5m lengths and is 2.5mm in thickness and will quite literally last a lifetime.
Guy showed my some that had already been installed along the drive which formed the practical and visual border between the shrubs and the gravel and I must say, as an alternative to labour intensive brick or concrete edging, the ProEdge carried the job off superbly.
View Everedge technical data here.
Further reading: Everedge - the 'Forever' edge
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