Leaving the house and walking out onto the grounds we discover the hand of landscape designer Louis Schreyer - wide perspectives and poignant highlights. A low-lying stone wall marks the passage from stonework to greenery. The pergola is inviting and guides us to the swimming pool and the pool house. It is a tunnel of foliage laden with the scent of honeysuckle, roses and jasmine. The Florentine cypress trees reach upwards to add rhythm while a blue hued carpet of lavender leads to the green grass that surrounds the pool. The pool is a long Roman basin. The wrought iron lounge chairs lay in the shade of the tau. Native plants such as agapantes, teucrium and phorenium add touches of colour and punctuate the space around the pool. The olive trees offer a full palette of shades of green to enchant the cicadas. The evening breeze lofts lightly across the bordering brook and in the distance the old stand of cypress rise between us and the Plain of Crau.