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A landscape architect, winner of the prize of the Assembly of Old French Houses (Vieilles Maisons Françaises) and the Reader''s Digest magazine prize.

Over the last 25 years, P. Joyaux has been devoting specially attention to the restoration of historical gardens of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, French gardens of the 17th-18th centuries, 19th century Romantic parks and themed public parks.

An experienced master, Joyaux has made a reputation for himself, thanks to his ability to “read” the features of a historical design in a landscape and to find, conceive and recreate gardens, including the parts about which archival information is unavailable.

His work includes the Heltorf castle park in Germany, the park and other facilities of the Marisol de la Tour d''Auvergne castle, the garden of Christian Dior, the garden of priory of Orsan, the garden of the castle Lignières of Prince Bourbon-Parma, the gardens of the castles of Bellechasse and Limanton, the garden of the University of Lome, Togo, and dozens of private estates.

Pierre Joyaux is the owner of a major boxwood nursery, in which all of the plants are regularly shaped. Driving to pass on his experience, he instructs student gardens in the forgotten techniques of plant cutting and much more.

At the master class, which Pierre Joyaux will hold on the opening day of the festival, he will demonstrate old methods of creating trellises using lattice forms covered with live flowers and describe the creation of unusual forms using roses, methods of increasing the effect of the roses’ blooming and answer many other questions.

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In 2013, in the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, the historic French private garden of the Château d’Ainay-le-Vieil is recreated for the Festival of the Imperial Gardens of Russia organized by the Russian Museum. The project made by the French landscaper Pierre Joyaux, is sponsored by both Meilland International who has been present in Russia and linked to its history since 1914 and by the château d’Ainay-le-Vieil owners. In order to show the profusion of great gardens in the Loire Valley, photographs of Villandry, Nohant, Chaumont, Apremont and Ainay-le-Vieil are presented in one part of the garden.
Located in the Loire Valley- Berry, the medieval fortified chateau of Ainay-le-Vieil flanked with high towers and surrounded by a moat, houses a Renaissance dwelling built in 1467 by Marie-Sol de La Tour d’Auvergne’s ancestors the Bigny when they bought it and decided to renovate it. It is still lived in by their descendants.
Ainay-le-Vieil gardens planted on three different levels, date from four different periods: Renaissance water gardens, ancient architectural enclosures built for fruit production, a 19th century park and contemporary gardens. They have been classified Historical Monument and labelled “Remarkable gardens” by the Ministry of Culture.
In front of the château, Renaissance water gardens with their square or rectangular islands invite us to an initiation walk into the art of garden, as after a storm in 1985, contemporary gardens were created in place of those which had disappeared. The first creation was the rose garden with its numerous varieties of old roses and rose banks invading the trees of the Renaissance Pavilions and offering a profusion of colours and perfumes. A collection of around 200 varieties outlines the history of the rose, starting with the simple hawthorn found in our thickets, roses of Provins and Damask introduced after crusades or other travels and the famous tea rose imported from Asia which gave birth to the current hybrids scented until autumn.
On the second level, the "Square Island" surrounded by canals is boarded with high palisades of hornbeams and planted with many yew topiaries.
On the third level, the "Chartreuses", old architectural enclosures were built to ensure the best quality of the fruits. Made of five different rooms equal in size, they are linked by a series of arcades and each one is a different type of garden telling the history of the art of garden in France: a mixed-border, a regular orchard with espaliers, a medieval meditation garden, a renaissance cloister and a formal boxwood garden.
The partners of the Marisol de la Tour d'Auvergne project at the 6th Imperial Gardens of Russia Festival in the Mikhailovsky garden were:
• Pierre Joyaux – http://pierrejoyaux.com/;
• Usadba Maryino – http://www.usadbamaryino.ru/, which took on the task of giving the French garden a true life of its own in its park
• Philip Mangi and the Meilland Company, a famous French rose producer http://www.meilland.com/ along with its branch in Russia, Pulkovskie Tzveti – http://piterflowers.ru/;
• Saint Petersburg Artistic Restoration Lyceum No. 3

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MARIE-SOL DE LA TOUR D’AUVERGNE

MEILLAND INTERNATIONAL