French Garden
A country of the potager. Le Potager du Roi planted at Versailles in 1683, Villandry’s ornamental garden recomposed in 1908, the espaliered pear trained six tiers high on a Loire wall, the salade composée cut at five o’clock in Nice, fines herbes picked at first light in a Bourgogne plot, blette and chard rotated at Cap Ferret, fraises des bois ripening under a Vosges hedge, the haricot vert harvested at four millimetres — a garden built on the parterre, the espalier, and the geometry of the bed.