In the landscape adjacent to the house, the leap of weeping trees and trees ends in the Davidia tree planted at the lower end of the hill. He takes and wipes the tears of all the scarves he has at the top. Not in vain the tree of scarves (handkerchief tree or pocket-handkerchief tree for the English, arbre aux mouchoirs for the French, tree of scarves for the Spanish, Taschentuchbaum for the Germans...). This eccentric name is due to its flower. By the month of May, the flowers open in groups and each one has a pair of bracts. The bract has the shape and the tendency that a white male scarf hung from one end would take: it flies to the wind's edge. This flight has also given this tree another special name: dove tree in English, the pigeon tree.

Over the past two centuries, this tree has generated many interrelationships between botanists: The classification salsa for families such as Cornaceae, Nysaceae or Davidiaceae has not yet matured properly, although it is currently considered the earliest. It was discovered in China by the missionary Jean Pierre Armand David Halsouet, a lazarist priest, born in the Bergara house of Ezpeleta (Lapurdi) in 1826. Next to this tree he found the panda bear, the imperial deer, the short golden monkey and many other species. Passionate about nature, he neglected his missions and acted at the orders of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. The group of hungry researchers from Europe and America of the 19th century was equipped with enough working tools, so many species carry the name of davidii or armandii in their honor. Instead of her last name, the scarlet tree has a name, Davidia.

Like Davidia, he's doing well with the name of a scarlet tree. Because of the appearance of the gardens, but also because of its aquatic aspect, everything would be dried up and not whatever... However, he likes water sometimes. They are not altered in permanently flooded clay or tupa grounds, in istingas or cienagas. If you don't, you'll have to shake the scarf yourself when you know you've killed it.

• For those who want to know more about Armand Davidi, the book written by Kepa Altonaga Armand David, aita de Panda (Elhuyar, 2001) is unique.