I decided that creating a garden around the Urn en Flambeau would be a great way to enhance it as a feature of the park, so I've designed a circular parterre to surround it. It was originally designed as a correctly oriented compass rose, but has been redesigned upon interlacing circles. It will stand in the middle of the Versailles Lawn, in a direct line of site from the centre of the terrace, and also in a line of sight from the Roman Rotunda down the central avenue of Lime trees.
Below: The circular garden at Kew which gave me the idea on our last holiday. It has a stone urn as a centrepiece.
Other circular parterres based on compass stars...
Below: The current design for the project...
Pink Lavender ...
maybe with a few fragrant malmaison carnations mixed in and some pink hyacinths for seasonal variation...
Purple Salvia...
Yellow/Orange Tulips...
With some cheerful marigolds mixed in...
and finally the dramatic red tulips around the base of the urn...
We will have to come up with a variety of flowers to keep it looking dazzling all year round. The horizon is the limit when is comes to planting the flowers...
.jpe)
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