00:02At France's Chambord Castle, the scene is unusual this year around the chateau.
00:08The once lush gardens now resemble a scorched landscape.
00:12The drought and successive heat waves have depleted the soil and put the vegetation to the dust.
00:17Here the gardeners are seeing the effects of this exceptional year.
00:21Even the trees, which are usually able to withstand harsh conditions, are beginning to show signs of distress.
00:27At the beginning, we did not see too much on the trees.
00:29It was really the small vegetation with the weak roots.
00:34And now we see that this rainstorm starts to impact the roots of the trees.
00:40I think we will have damage, but it will be delayed in time.
00:45There will be two or three years to die.
00:48But the impact this year of the calculation is very, very strong.
00:51For him, there is no way around it.
00:53There needs to be a rethink of how gardens are designed and which trees and plants are chosen in the
00:59coming years.
01:00We can't think about the gardens with the volume of water that we could use before.
01:10I think that now we see that the resource in water is complicated.
01:15I think the new gardens need to think about the smallest volume of water possible, even not at all.
01:24Less water, plants better adapted to drought and more resilient trees.
01:30The gardens of tomorrow will have to adapt.
01:32In Shambour, where nature has been shaped by humans for centuries, it is now the climate that is writing a
01:38new chapter in the history.
01:39The garden, the garden, the garden, the garden, and the garden....
01:42The college youанный the garden was changing.
01:44The garden.
01:44The garden has been antiquated.
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