Shrubs with persistent sheets, the boxwood can be cut multiple ways. Under the emperor Auguste, they decorate already the gardens of the Roman patricians. Then with the Rebirth, they take the most extravagant forms. They are used for bordering the alleys and forming the reasons for the floors, as recommends it the agronomist Olivier de Serres.

Small flowers blue-mauve which push in a spontaneous way, the aubriètes owe their name to the painter Claude Aubriet. At the beginning of the XVIIIème century, the artist was charged by Louis XIV of a botanical forwarding in minor Asia. He brought back of them these flowers which give, to April, a vibration particular to the stone of the walls which enclose the Garden with the Italian. In other seasons, the aubriètes leave the place with the mufliers and the valerians.

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