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LA BONNE MAISON

Jardin privé de
bulbes, clématites, iris, pivoines et roses anciennes.

Website: labonnemaison.org

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Located on a hill, overlooking the river Saône, south of the city of Lyon, is a garden of 2 and ½ acres enclosed with high walls : the garden of La Bonne Maison.

More than 800 cultivars of labelled roses bloom there from mid-April, for the first Chinese and Central Asia species, until the frost.

65 arches divided in five pergolas, underlined some paths, or the entrance of the different gardens. There is the pergola of the Dirt path, the pergola of the Cobbled path, the pergola of the Yucca garden, the pergola of the Orchard, the pergola of the Secret garden.

Everywhere, roses entangle themselves with clematis, and invade cedar trees, cypreses, pawlonias, Juda trees, weeping sophoras and prunus. The old fruit trees carefully maintained and pruned support many of them. Some clematis as CL spooneri or Cl. armandii climbed up to 18 feet.

So major bloomings follow one another from March until the end of June.

March sees the bulbs, tulips, crocuses, cyclamens, narcisses bloom under the prunus. April is the month of species peonies, tree peonies , chinese species roses

May the one of roses, irises and oriental poppies . June the one of perenials : geraniums, daylilies, hostas, sages, and the hydrangeas' border.

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Visits :
sculptures

  • The garden is open to members of the Association of La Bonne Maison every morning except Sundays and August, from 9 :00 am to 1 :00 pm and on appointment.

  • Open to the Public from March 1st to June 30th every morning except Sundays from 9am. until 1pm.

  • Free entrance under 18

Contact :

  • Mme Odile Masquelier
    La Bonne Maison
    99 chemin de Fontanières
    69350 La Mulatière
    France

  • labonnemaison.org

  • Tél. (33).04.78.37.38.37
    Fax (33).04.78.37.21.27

  • e-mail : contact@labonnemaison.org

  • Bus N°29 : Stop at Léon Favre

  • At 15 minutes from the TGV station Lyon-Perrache by Taxi

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Texte de madame Odile Masquelier et photographies extraites de l'ouvrage :
La bonne maison, jardin de roses anciennes, Odile Masquelier,  ed. Flammarion, La maison rustique, novembre 2001.
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