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Our experts


Our landscape expert


Guillaume Gosse de Gorre

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A passionate landscaper

Guillaume Gosse de Gorre, a landscape architect, joined the Draw Me A Garden adventure to make landscaped gardens accessible to all and to reconnect with nature. Motivated by the idea of reintroducing biodiversity in urban areas depleted of Guillaume selects for Draw Me A Garden quality plants, adapted to different terrains and made to live in interaction with each other. to live in interaction with each other, to create a symbiosis throughout the seasons. He therefore designs gardens that are aesthetically pleasing, affordable and easy to set up even when you don't have a green thumb.

Guillaume Gosse de Gorre trained at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles, which has as its setting the king's vegetable garden at the foot of the Château de Versailles. In 2007, he took over the management of the Séricourt Gardens, created by his father, then a nurseryman/landscaper and botany enthusiast. This park of more than 4 hectares, recognized as one of the most beautiful gardens in France, is labeled "Remarkable Garden" by the Ministry of Culture and was elected "Garden of the Year 2012" by garden journalists.

It is from the Gardens of Sericourt that Guillaume conceives the structure of the gardens of Draw Me A Garden and chooses the adapted plants to allow you to have at home the most beautiful garden you can imagine.

The Gardens of Séricourt

Located between Le Touquet and Arras in the south of Pas-de-Calais and created on more than 4 hectares, the Gardens of Séricourt were created in 1983 by Guillaume's father, Yves Gosse de Gorre, then a nurseryman and landscape gardener.

Labelled "Remarkable Garden" in 2004, when the label was created, and elected "Garden of the Year" in 2012, the Gardens of Séricourt promise visitors a walk that goes beyond the imagination and awakens their love for nature.

It is on a place strongly marked by the History of battles (100 years war and Great War) that the gardens of Séricourt come to life, which gives them a very special soul. They are real places of discovery with various themes and universes They are real places of discovery with varied themes and universes: the cathedral of roses, the sea alley, the warrior garden and the garden of topiaries...

Well of biodiversity and artistic creation, the Gardens of Séricourt are a set of poetic gardens that serve as laboratories of ideas, both botanical and laboratories of ideas, both botanical and aesthetic.

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Our botanical advisor


Didier Willery

view of the Vastérival

A botanical expert

A true enthusiast, Didier Willery is the botanical manager of Vasterival, one of the most beautiful gardens in Europe. Created in the 1950s by Princess Greta Sturdza, this magnificent green space of 12 hectares located in Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer (Normandy) includes no less than 8000 plant species offering an incredible show in all seasons. Didier Willery is in charge of the botanical Didier Willery is in charge of the botanical follow-up and the enrichment of the collections, in the respect of the traditions established by the Princess.

On the left and below, magnificent views of the Vastérival.
Photo credits : © Didier Willery

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A seasoned look at the Draw Me A Garden line of plants

Didier Willery, a curious and passionate gardener, has never stopped learning from nature, especially in his test gardens in the Nord Pas-de-Calais. It is by observing plants and their interactions in their ecosystems that he has forged his expertise and his seasoned eye. Today, he puts these skills at the service of Draw Me A Garden. He supports Guillaume Gosse de Gorre in the choice of the plants composing the Draw Me A Garden Draw Me A Garden, in order to guarantee associations of plants ensuring a beautiful garden with the minimum of maintenance, and this, all year long. What to seduce most of us!

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photograph of Didier Willery's test gardens
portrait of Guillaume Gosse de Gorre, landscape designer and Didier Willery, botanist photograph of Didier Willery's test gardens

The test gardens of D. Willery. Bottom left, G. Gosse de Gorre and D. Willery.
Photo credits : © Didier Willery

cover of the book by Didier Willery, dingue de plantes

"Dingue de plantes", Didier Willery.
Ulmer Editions, 2015.

A distinguished journalist, author and photographer

In addition to being an active contributor to several French and foreign magazines specializing in gardening, Didier Willery is also the editorial director of Editions Ulmer, a reference in the field. A recognized author, he has 36 magnificent works to his credit to date.

His love of the plant kingdom and his desire to transmit it have also led him to create his blog, whose evocative name takes the title of one of his best-sellers: "Dingue de plantes". This platform allows him to highlight this inexhaustible source of inspiration and reveal to his public one of his multiple (other) talents through his 150,000 photos!

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