IN BRIEF
Name Jardin du Mont des Récoletts.
What Country garden featuring 22 rooms, each with its own character.
Where Flanders, northeast France. Soil Ranges from light sand to heavy clay.
Size Three acres of formal garden within an 86-acre landscape.
Climate Mostly mild with some winter frosts. Hardiness zone USDA 9.
Emmanuel de Quillacq spent most of his childhood moving all over France. But after studying landscape design at the distinguished École du Paysage in Versailles, he felt a deep need to reconnect with his roots. So in 1990 he moved to his grandparents’ farm in French Flanders, a
