A Romanesque bell tower dominating the Cisse valley, 10 km northwest of Blois, a priory built in 1060 by the Marmoutier monks, damaged by the Hundred Years’ War, then rebuilt in the 15th and 19th centuries… the Orchaise park could give an image of eternal France.
But Hubert Treuille, amateur botanist and tireless traveller, imagined this 3-hectare park as an ode to the diversity of nature. This globe-trotter, curious about everything, brought back in his luggage birches from the Himalayas, cryptomers from Japan, American hornbeams, great cedars from Lebanon… More than two thousand two hundred varieties of plants and trees from every continent, which he has brought together in the grounds of the Orchaise priory.