Notable gardens of France
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The Notable Gardens of France is a list and description of the two hundred and some gardens classified as "Jardins Remarquable" by the French Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France. The complete list and the criteria for selection (in French) can be found on: site of the Comité des Parcs et Jardins. Other gardens not on the list can be found or added to the categories 'Gardens in France' and 'Gardens.'
[edit] Gardens of Alsace
[edit] Bas-Rhin
- Kintzheim - The Park of ruins of the Château de Kintzheim. In 1802 Matthieu de Favier, a future baron of the French Empire, bought a former feudal domain and a ruined 12th century castle on a mountain, and built a mansion in the new Directory style. In 1803-1807, he created a romantic landscape garden, or jardin tableau, to highlight the view of the ruined castle, inspired by the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorraine, and Hubert Robert. (See photos)
- Kolbsheim - The Garden of the Château of Kolbsheim. Located 15 kilometers southwest of Strasbourg, overlooking the plain of Alsace. The chateau has two wings, the oldest built in 1703. The upper part of the garden is geometric French garden, decorated with ponds, fountains, hedges and sculpted trees. The lower part is an English park, with many hundred-year old trees. Much of the garden was destroyed in the First World War, but was restored by the Grunelius family, the present owners. (See photos)
- Ottrott - The Domaine of Windeck. The house was built by an Alsatian nobleman, Joseph Pescalis, in 1770. The park was begun by Armand Theodore de Partein in 1835. It built in the romantic style, with clusters of trees, ponds and views of the ruined castle of Ottrott. Later trees from America and Asia were added. It includes a beech tree 20 meters high, several sequoia trees fifty meters high and four meters in diameter; American oak trees; cryptomeria trees from Japan; and groves of bamboo. In spring the garden has colorful displays of rhododendrons. (See photos)
- Plobsheim - The Garden of Marguerite. A small English "secret" garden created by Marguerite and Michel Goetz in 1990, in the heart of the Alsatian village of Plobsheim. The garden features a stream, bridge, fountain, 2000 varieties of plants, and 150 varieties of old roses. (See photos)
- Saverne - The Botanical Garden of the Saverne Pass. An enclave in the Vosges Forest, featuring local trees, bushes and herbaceous plants in their natural setting. The garden is also known for its bracken, iris from Siberia, and its collection of carnivorous plants.(See Photos)
- Strasbourg - The Botanical Gardens of the Universite Louis-Pasteur were originally founded by the French Academy of Sciences in 1619, and were the second-oldest botantical gardens in France. During the French-German War of 1870, the gardens were turned into a cemetery and largely destroyed. The gardens were recreated between 1880 and 1884. Today the gardens, located on 3.5 hectares, have 6000 species of plants, including a collection of rare trees from around the world, including a giant sequoia from California a massive pecan tree, and a walnut tree from the Caucasus. Greenhouses shelter a remarkable collection of tropical plants, including giant waterlily (Victoria regia) from the Amazon River basin.(See photos of the garden)
- Uttenhoffen - The Garden of La Ferme Bleue. A modern garden built around a farm from the time of the Thirty Years War in the 17th century, whose buildings, like those of other Protestant farmers of the time, were painted blue. The garden features sculpture, fruit trees and fountains, and colorful seasonal displays of flowers. The garden was created by landscape architect Jean-Louis Cura.(See photos)
[edit] Haut-Rhin
- Guebwiller - The Park of the Marseillaise is a public botanical garden and arboretum in the center of the town of Guebwiller, created by landscape designer Edouard Andre between 1897 and 1899. It contains a large fountain, bandstand, a great variety of trees, rhododendrons and roses, and colorful seasonal flower beds of begonias, dahlias and iris. (See photos)
- Husseren-Wesserling - Parc of Wesserling. Created beginning in 1699 at the site of a the hunting lodge of the prince-abbey of Murbach, the garden contains formal French gardens and an English park,as well as contemporary statues. Trees include a giant sequoia, Virginia tulip, red oak, cypress, linden and maple, plus acacia, plus many kinds of seasonal flowers. (see photos)
- Mulhouse - The Zoo and Botanical Park of Mulhouse Sud-Alsace The park was created in 1868 as a romantic landscape garden, with a zoo whose collection included kangaroo, deer and birds. Today the zoo has more than 1200 animals, and is dedicated to preserving rare species of plants and animals. It contains many species of tropical birds and monkeys, 400 kinds of iris in spring and dahlias in summer, and trees shaped into fantastic forms. It also features a garden of the senses for the blind, with signs in braille and plants chosen for their smell and touch.(See photos)
- Riedisheim - Park Alfred Wallach. Created in 1935 by Paris landscape architect Achille Duchesne, the Park has all the elements of a classic French garden; a large lawn; ornamental flower beds bordered by hedges; a rose garden with 136 varieties; a salle de repos (eng: place of repose) with statues and trees; a basin and fountain; a small labyrinth; stairways connecting the different parts of the garden; and tree-shaded alleys. (See photos)
[edit] Gardens of Aquitaine
[edit] Dordogne
- Domme - Park and Boxwood Garden of the Château of Caudon. A French garden and romantic English landscape park, created between 1808 and 1814 by the Marquis Jacques de Malville, one of the authors of the French Civil Code. Located on a hill above the left bank of the Dordogne River, the chateau dates to the Louis XVI-French Empire period. The garden features an alley of thirty-two plane trees, all nearly two hundred years old; a remarkable topiary garden of boxwood hedges, and labyrinth; A Cedar of Lebanon tree and a giant sequoia.
- Eymet - Park and Kitchen Garden of Pouthet. A small 18th century chateau in the valley of the Dropt River features an alley of cedar planted in 1860; cyclamen, crocus and jonquille in season; and a garden of vegetables and flowers grouped by color. (See pictures.)
- Hautefort - Gardens of the Château de Hautefort. The chateau was reconstructed in the 17th century, and embellished with a garden in the French style. In 1853 the gardens were redone by the celebrated landscape architect the Count of Choulot, and the chateau, gardens and landscape were unified, with geometric flower gardens, topiary gardens imitating the domes of the chateau, and a long tunnel of greenery. Next to the formal gardens is a hill with an Italian garden with winding shaded paths. Notable trees in the park include a Magnolia Grandiflora and a Cedar of Lebanon. (See pictures)
- Le Buisson-de-Cadouin - Garden of Planbuisson. The garden presents two hundred and sixty four different types of bamboo, from dwarf bamboo to giant, as well as exotic trees, such as Paulownia fortunei. The garden is particularly attractive at the end of summer, autumn and winter. (See photos)
- Saint-Cybranet - Gardens of Albarede An unusual modern garden, created by landscape architect Serge Lapouge. The garden features one thousand species adapted to the dry and rigorous climate and poor soil of the region. It presents fruit trees, aromatic plants, a topiary garden, old types of vegetables and roses, as well as examples of the rural architecture of the Perigord region. (see photos)
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- Saint-Germain-de-Belvès - Garden of Conty. A French hilltop garden in Perigord, inspired by the gardens of Tuscany. The garden features cypress trees from Italy, chestnut, plane trees, walnut and oak, a wide variety of fruit trees, and a Medieval kitchen garden. (See Photos)
- Salignac-Eyvigues - Gardens of the manor of d'Eyrignac The gardens and forest. from the 18th century, surround a 17th century manor house on a hill, with water coming from seven springs. Only a pavilion, fountains and basins remain from the original 18th century garden. In the 1960s, the new owner. Giles Sermadiras de Cuzols de Lile, created a new garden, inspired by gardens from the Renaissance and Italian gardens to the end of the 18th century. The garden features topiary sculptures, vistas. fountains, statues, and an alley of vases.
- Thonac - Gardens of the château de Losse. The pleasure garden of a Renaissance chateau next to the Vezere River, with gardens atop the walls overlooking the river, a tunnel of vines, a fine rose garden, a courtyard with squares planted with lavander, edged with romarin, and guarded by cypress trees.
- Vézac - Gardens of Marqueyssac. Built in the 17th century by Bertrand Vernet, Counselor to the King. The original garden was created by a pupil of Le Notre, and featured gardens, terraces, and a kitchen garden surrounding the chateau. A grand promenade one hundred meters long was added at the end of the 18th century. Beginning in 1866, the new owner, Julien de Cerval, who was inspired by Italian gardens, built rustic structures, redesigned the parterres, laid out five kilometers of walks, and planted pines and cypress trees. (See Photos)
- Terrasson-Lavilledieu - Gardens of the Imagination (fr: Jardins de l'Imaginaire). This contemporary garden, a public park of the town of Terrasson, was designed in 1996 by landscape architect Katheryn Gustafson to present thirteen tableaus of the myths and legends of the history of gardens. It uses simple natural elements; trees, flowers, water and stone to suggest the passage of mankind from nature to agriculture to the city. It uses a symbolic sacred wood, a rose garden, topiary art, and fountains to tell the story. (See Pictures)
- Vélines - Gardens of Sardy. A small garden from the 1950s built around a country house, with a shaded terrace for tea, and intimate landscapes and views inspired by English and Italian gardens.
- Issac - Gardens of the Château de Montréal. The Chateau was built in 1535, in the Renaissance style, on the site of a fortress dating to the 13th and 14th centuries. The gardens were built upton the ramparts of the fortress at the beginning of the 20th century by Achille Duchene. The lower garden is in the Italian style, and features hibiscus and yew trees, and walls covered with white roses and white clematis. The upper garden is in the French style, with ornamental flower beds and a topiary garden. The garden was badly damaged by a storm in 1999, and has been replanted.(see pictures)
- Urval - Gardens of la Bourlie. Originating as the gardens of the chateau of a noble family of Perigord in the 14th Century, the original 17th century gardens featured a kitchen garden and an early French ornamental garden surrounded by a wall. Later, in the 18th century, a grand axis between the village and the woods was created, along with an alley of linden trees, and a topiary alley of yew trees. In the 19th century a landscape garden was added, with coniferous trees and varied plants. The chateau also has fine collection of old roses and fruit trees.
[edit] Gironde
- Cussac-Fort-Médoc - Park of the Château Lanessan. The garden is surrounded by the vineyards of the Chateau, in the Medoc wine region of Bordeaux. The Chateau and gardens were built in 1878 by the architect Duphot. The gardens are in the English style, with alleys, lawns, and cedar, cypress and plane trees.(see photos)
- Portets - Gardens of the Château de Mongénan. The chateau was built in 1736 and the botantical gardens created in 1741 by the Baron de Gasq, inspired by his friend and music teacher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the theories of the botanist Linnaeus, who believed that all plants were valuable, whether they were ornamental, medicinal, wild, or for food. The garden was made to resemble the ideal pre-romantic garden Rousseau described in La Nouvelle Heloise, full of aromas and colors. The current garden is kept as it was in the 18th century, with vegetables of the era, local varieties of fruit trees, 18th century varieties of roses, asters, iris, dahlias, aromatic plants, and plants used to make perfume. The tuberoses and jasmine fill the gardens with their aromas.
- Preignac - Gardens of the Château de Malle. These gardens, adjoining a chateau famous for its sauterne wines, were designed between 1717 and 1724 by Alexandre Eutrope de Lur Saluces, and are considered among the finest gardens of the French classical age. They were inspired by the gardens that he saw in Florence during his grand tour of Italy and his time spent at the court in Versailles. The park has a wide central axis and two terraces, with groups of statues and vases. The statues were done by Italian artists brought there for that purpose in the early part of the 18th century, and represent figures from Greek mythology: Cephale, Aurora, Cupid, Venus, Adonis, and Flore, the goddess of flowers and gardens. Other statues represent wine-making, the joys of the hunt and fishing, wine and intoxication. To the east of the first terrace is a small theater, decorated with figures from the the Italian commedia dell'arte: Pantalon, Scaramouche and Arlequin. A stairway leads to a second terrace, where there are statues symbolizing of earth, wind, air and fire. [1](see photos)
- Vayres - Gardens of the Chäteau de Vayres. The chateau was built on a mound on the edge of the Dordogne River in the 15th century, then rebuilt in the Renaissance when it was given by King Henry IV to the Gourgues Family. It was rebuilt one more time at the end of the 17th century. The gardens were rebuilt in 1938 by the landscape architect Ferdinand Duprat. A monumental stairway leads from the chateau across the old moat to the French gardens by the river, where there are parterres bordered with hedges of yew, and boxwood trees sculpted into cone shapes. There is also a flower garden of medieval inspiration, and an English-style park, with cedar, oak, linden, hornbeam and copper beech trees.
[edit] Landes
- Dax - Park of Sarrat. The park, formerly the home and garden of architect Rene Guichemerre, was created by him from the 1950s until his death in 1988. It contains his modern house, inspired by the architects Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright; an impressive alley of plane trees; A French garden with fountain and cascade; an extensive kitchen garden; and a botanical garden with 320 kinds of trees, many of them rare.
[edit] Lot-et-Garonne
- Le Temple-sur-Lot - The Gardens of Latour-Marliac, created in 1870 by Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac, are devoted entirely to different species of aquatic plants, particularly the water lily. The gardens feature a grotto, a cascade, thermal springs, a wide variety of tropical vegetation, and the oldest nursery for aquatic plants in the world. In 1894, The Gardens of Latour-Marliac furnished the water lilies for the garden of Claude Monet in Giverny.
[edit] Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Cambo-les-Bains - Gardens of the villa Arnaga. These gardens were created beginning in 1903 by the French playwright Edmond Rostand, the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, next to his home, which is now the Edmond Rostand Museum. The house, in the Basque style, looks out at the Pyrenees. To the east of the house is a formal geometric French garden, with fountains, statues, three basins, a topiary garden, an orangerie, a belvedere apergola, and a "poet's corner". The garden has colorful annual displays of rhododendron and azalea. Around the French garden is a wooded English landscape garden, with clusters of oak, maple, chestnut, walnut, linden, and fir trees. The park descends to banks of the River Arraga, where there is a picturesque water mill.
- Momas - Garden of the Château de Momas. The chateau is surrounded by gardens inspired by medieval gardens; with sculptures, fountains, a kitchen garden and an aromatic garden; old varieties of fruits and vegetables, and two-hundred year old oak and fig trees. (see photos)
- Viven - Gardens of the Château de Viven. The chateau was first mentioned in the 11th century; it was completely rebuilt in the 18th century. The gardens were redesigned after the original plan in 1988. The French garden features a colorful mosaic of 2500 begonias, and more than a thousand roses, adorned with hedges and topiary gardens, a fountain and a pavillion. There are annual displays of camelia, azaleas, rhododendron, hydrangea, and bougainvillia.
[edit] Gardens of the Auvergne
[edit] Allier
- Villeneuve-sur-Allier - The Arboretum of Balaine is the oldest private botantical garden in France. It was begun in 1804, but largely was the creation of Aglaé Adanson, the daughter of French naturalist Michel Adanson, who was responsible for the Trianon botanical garden of Louis XV. She settled there in 1812, at the age of thirty, and established it as one of the earliest acclimatization gardens in France, designed to accustom exotic plants from France's colonies to the climate of France. Despite the blockade of Napoleon's Europe by the British fleet, Adanson was able to assemble a remarkable collection of plants from around the world. The garden features a romantic promenade around a pond, and more than twenty-five hundred specimens of trees and plants, including a giant sequoia tree from California six and half meters in diameter, a taxodium distichum thirty-five meters high, and an abies pinsapo planted before 1850. In spring the garden has colorful displays of camelia, rhododendron, magnolia, davidia, viburnum, and cornus. In the fall the garden is noted for its iris, old varieties of roses, and hydrangeas.
[edit] Puy-de-Dôme
- Issoire - The Gardens of the Château d'Hauterive were originally part of the domaine of the Abbey of Issoire, founded in the 10th century. The present buildings date to the late 17th century; documents and old watercolors show that the gardens existed in 1680-1691, with much the same plan as today. The gardens are a classical composition of lawns, alleys, eight parterre around a central basin, hedges, and small groves of trees. Flowers include peony, iris, lis, delphinium, sage, lupin and dahlia. The gardens were badly damaged in the storm of 1999- 500 to 700 trees were uprooted or broken. The gardens are being restored.
- Orcival - The Park and Gardens of the Château de Cordès. The chateau, dating to the 15th century, with an interior redone in the 17th and again in the 18th century, is located atop a hill nine hundred meters high in the Massif of Mont-Dore. The owner, the Marechal d'Allègre, commissioned the workshop of André le Nôtre to design the gardens in 1695. The gardens feature hedges of hornbeam five meters high; a labyrinth with the center filled with roses; and classical lawns, alleys, parterres and topiary shrubs and trees.
- Romagnat - Gardens of the Château d'Opme. The chateau was first built in the 11th century, and belonged to the Counts and then the Dauphins of Auvergne. It was rebuilt in the 17th century by Antoine de Ribeyre, treasurer to the King. The garden dates to 1617. The garden has two parts; a classical garden in the French style, with a circular basin, fountain, and lawns and tree-shaded alleys; and a lower Renaissance garden with fruit trees, flower beds and vegetable gardens laid out in geometric designs. The two parts of the garden are connected by an unusual stone stairway with two revolutions.. The fountain with two basins dates to 1617.
[edit] Gardens of Burgundy
[edit] Côte D'or
- Arceau - Gardens of the Château d'Arcelot.
The gardens, located on a gentle slope between the chateau and a large pond, were created in 1805 by architect Jean-Marie Morel. They feature a Chinese pavilion, old trees, including a giant bald cypress large enough to hold a man inside; and an orangerie, with vegetable gardens and an orchard. (see photos)
- Athie - The Mill of Athie.
The mill was built in the 16th century and continued to operate until the early 20th century, when it was made into a cheese-dairy. The garden was created in the late 1970s. It contains a large variety of trees, including chestnut, maple, and sequoia; four hundred fifty varieties of rose, including three hundred old varieties; one hundred kinds of peony; a gloriette; a pond of water lily; and topiary shrubs. (see photos)
- Barbirey-sur-Ouche - Garden of the Château de Barbirey].
A 19th century English landscape garden surrounding an 18th century country house. The garden fatures terraces, kitchen gardens, an orchard, belvedere, and grotto. Trees inclue plane trees, cedar, maple, chestnut, and sequoia. The orchard contains pear, plum, apple, cherry, apricot, and quince trees. Seasonal flowers inlcude dahlia, peony, iris and tulip.
- Lantilly - Kitchen Garden of the Château de Lantilly.
A garden from the mid-19th century which contains groves of century-old plane, cedar,sycamore and catalpa trees; yew trees carved into fantastic shapes; a large variety of rose, fruit trees, heliotrope, zinnia, peony, geranium, masterwort, and anemone from Japan. (see photos)
- Saulieu - Park of Saint-Léger de Fourches.
The park once surrounded a large 15th century chateau, which is now more modest in size. The present park, created in 1840 and enlarged since 1972, features many old local trees; oak, hornbeam, beech and copper beech; holly and larch; more exotic trees, such as sequoia, tzugas canadensis and cladastris lutea; and a spectacular display of rhododendron in bloom between May 15 and June 15. (see photos)
- Talmay - Garden of the Château de Talmay.
The Chateau is from the mid-18th century; the the gardens date to 1752. The gardens have 280 applie and pear trees carved into the shape of bowls; a labyrinth of box trees; hedges of hornbeam; eight giant plane trees planted in 1752; and alleys of peony, iris and rose.
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- Alligny-en-Morvan - Park and Garden of the Chateau de La Chaux.
A pastoral garden created in the mid-19th century, around a small chateau and a hamlet of farm buildings. The garden features many trees planted in 1850, including a double alley of giant sequoia; a grove of Cedar of Lebanon; Copper beech, ash trees and tulip trees; as well as beds of glycine, rose, hortensia, alleys of pink peony and blue iris; lavender; a medicinal herb garden; magnolia, rhododendrons, and a carpet of heather. (See photos)
- Châtillon-en-Bazois - Park and Garden of the Château de Châtillon-en-Bazois.
An English landscape park, a classic French garden, and a modern garden of fountains and basins are placed between a medieval chateau and a busy canal. The garden has an Orangerie with rows of fruit trees and hedges beside the canal; a traditional kitchen garden; and boxwood hedges sculpted into shapes like flocks of sheep. (see photos)
- Coulanges-lès-Nevers - Gardens of Forgeneuve.
A site of an old iron forge, dating from 1660 and 1820, beside the river Nievre, restored in 1981-1990 and turned into gardens. They feature an English landscape garden, a kitchen garden, flower beds, and many monumental old trees, including a plane tree two hundred and fifty years old.
- Limanton - Garden of the Château de Limanton.
The original gardens had been completely abandoned, and were recreated beginning in 1994 following the inspiration of the 17th century and 18th century gardens of the school of Le Notre. The garden is laid out in three terraces; the first terrace contains two lawns with sculpted yew trees at the angles; the second has a secret garden, with boxwood hedges, old roses, and a palisaded fig tree; and the third is divided into flower beds and lawns separated by pallisades and rows of fruit trees.
[edit] Saône-et-Loire
- Anglure-sous-Dun - The Garden of the Zéphyr.
A private garden of one hectare in the English and contemporary styles, created beginning in 2000 by a couple passionate about gardening, which takes perfect advantage of its hilly site. The wooded portions contain twenty varieties of maple, 10 varieties of birch, and oak, conifers, beech, and hornbeam. Bushes and flowers include hyrdangea, cornus, dahlias and three hundred varieties of rose. (see photos)
- Curbigny -Gardens of the Château de Drée.
The chateau was built in the 17th century, rebuilt in the 19th century, then restored in the 20th century to the way it looked in the 18th century. The gardens, in the French style, feature squares of white and pink roses and lavander; large terraces of flower beds; A fountain with statues by Jean de Bologne from the fountain of Neptune in Florence; a long perspective; a folly called "The Tower of the Demoiselles"; and an elliptical rose garden, with over 1300 rose bushes in pastel colors around a basin.
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- Oyé -Gardens of the Château de Chaumont .
The present chateau and gardens in the French style were created in the 18th century, and restored in the 20th century. Parts of chateau date to the 16th century. The principal feature of the garden is a grand alley from the gate to the chateau lined by yew trees shaped into cones, alternating with statues and vases. There are two secondary alleys of double rows of linden trees. The gardens also feature a large rectangle of chestnut trees providing shade, and alleys of hornbeam hedges 350 meters long on the west and south.
- Palinges -Château de Digoine,
- , Sully -Park and Gardens, Chateau de Sully
- Varenne-l'Arconce - The Roman Gardens.
[edit] Yonne
- Thorigny-sur-Oreuse - Park of the Château de Thorigny.
[edit] Gardens of Brittany
[edit] Côtes-d'Armor
[edit] Finistère
- Batz - Garden of Delasselle.
- Combrit - Botanical Garden of Cornwall.
- Huelgoat - Arboretum of Poërop.
- Quimper - Garden of the château de Lanniron.
- Roscoff - Exotic Garden of Roscoff
- Saint-Goazec - Park of the château de Trevarez.
[edit] Ille-et-Vilaine
- Antrain - Park of the château de Bonnefontaine
- Bazouges-la-Pérouse - Garden of the château de la Ballue.
- Bécherel - Park of the château de Caradeuc.
- Bréal-sous-Montfort - Gardens of Broceliande.
- Le Châtellier - Flower Gardens of Haute-Bretagne.
- Pleugueneuc - Gardens of the château de la Bourbansais.
- Pleurtuit - Gardens of Montmarin.
[edit] Morbihan
[edit] Gardens of the Center of France
[edit] Cher
- Ainay-le-Vieil - Gardens of the Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil.
- Apremont-sur-Allier - Flower gardens of Apremont.
- Bourges - The Prés Fichaux.
- Chassy-Villiers - Gardens of the Château de Villiers.
- Maisonnais - Gardens of the Priory of Notre-Dame-d'Orsan.
- Loye-sur-Arnon - The artistic gardens of Drulon.
[edit] Eure-et-Loir
- Illiers-Combray - Le pré Catelan.
[edit] Indre
- Bouges-le-Château - Château de Bouges.
[edit] Indre-et-Loire
- Azay-le-Rideau - Gardens of la Chatonnière.
- Chançay - Park and Gardens of the château de Valmer.
- Chenonceaux - Park and Gardens of the Château de Chenonceaux.
- La Riche - The Gardens of the Priory of Saint-Cosme.
- Lémeré - The gardens of the Château du Rivau
- Tours - The Prébendes d’Oe.
- Villandry - The gardens of the Château de Villandry.
[edit] Loir-et-Cher
- Blois - Rose gardens and terraces of the bishop's residence.
- Cellettes - Château de Beauregard.
- Sasnières - Domaines of Sasnières.
- Talcy - Château de Talcy.
[edit] Loiret
- Ingrannes - Arboretum of grandes bruyères.
- La Bussière - Garden of the Château de la Bussière.
- Meung-sur-Loire - Les prés-Culand.
- Nogent-sur-Vernisson - National Arboretum of Barres
- Triguères - Gardens of the Manor of Grand Courtoiseau.
[edit] Gardens of Champagne-Ardenne
[edit] Aube
- Barberey-Saint-Sulpice - Park and Garden of the Château.
[edit] Marne
- Nanteuil-la-Forêt - Botanical Garden of la Presle.
[edit] Haute-Marne
- Joinville - The garden of the Château.
[edit] Gardens of Franche-Comté
[edit] Jura
- Arlay - The Park and the "Garden of Games" of the château d'Arlay.
- Dole - The Garden of la Faulx.
[edit] Haute-Saône
- Battrans - Park of l'Etang.
[edit] Territoire de Belfort
- Anjoutey - The Rose Garden of le Chatelet.
[edit] Gardens of the Île-de-France
[edit] Paris
- Paris - The Garden of the Palais-Royal.
[edit] Seine-et-Marne
- Champs-sur-Marne - Domaine national.
- Fontainebleau - Domaine national.
- Maincy - Park of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
[edit] Yvelines
- Choisel - Park of the Château de Breteuil
- Rambouillet - Domaine national
- Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Domaine national of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
- Versailles - Gardens of Versailles
- Versailles - Vegetable Garden of the King
- Thoiry - Château de Thoiry
[edit] Essonne
- Chamarande - The Park of Chamarande.
- Courances - The Park of the Château de Courances.
- Courson-Monteloup - The Park of Courson.
- Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard - The Park of the Château.
[edit] Hauts-de-Seine
- Châtenay-Malabry - The Valley of the Wolves/ house of Chateaubriand / arboretum.
- Rueil-Malmaison - Domaine of Malmaison.
- Saint-Cloud - Domaine national.
- Sceaux - Park of the domaine of Sceaux.
[edit] Val d' Oise
- Château d'Ambleville - Domaine of Ambleville.
- Asnières-sur-Oise - Park of the Royaumont Abbey.
- Chaussy - Domaine of Villarceaux.
[edit] Gardens of Languedoc-Roussillon
[edit] Gard
- Concoules - The Garden of Tomple.
- Générargues - The Bamboo Garden of Prafrance.
- Nîmes - The Garden of la Fontaine.
- Ponteils-et-Brésis - The Garden of the mas de l'Abri.
- Saint-André-de-Majencoules - The Garden of Sambucs.
[edit] Hérault
- Margon - The Park and Garden of the Château de Margon.
- Montpellier - Flaugergues.
- Servian - Saint-Adrien.
[edit] Gardens of Limousin
[edit] Corrèze
- Voutezac - Saillant.
[edit] Creuse
[edit] Haute-Vienne
- Ambazac : The Garden of the Château de Montméry.
- Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre : The Garden of Liliane.
[edit] Gardens of Lorraine
[edit] Meurthe-et-Moselle
- Fléville-devant-Nancy, The Park of the château (XVI°-XVIII°)
- Gerbéviller The romantic and art nouveau park of the château
- Villers-lès-Nancy - The Botanical Garden of du Montet
[edit] Meuse
- Ville-sur-Saulx - Park of G. de Tréves.
- Haironville - Park of la Varenne.
[edit] Moselle
- Pange, parc du château
[edit] Vosges
- Ban-de-Sapt - Garden of Callunes.
- Xonrupt-Longemer - Mountain garden of Haut-Chitelet
[edit] Gardens of the Midi-Pyrénées
[edit] Ariège
- Lapenne - Broques - Park of Bamboo.
[edit] Aveyron
- Salles-la-Source - Garden of Eden of the Château du Colombier [1]
[edit] Haute-Garonne
- Larra - Garden and park of the château de Larra.
- Loubens-Lauragais - Garden and park of the Château de Loubens.
- Bagnères-de-Luchon - Hot springs park of Quinquonces.
- Bagnères-de-Luchon - Park of the Casino.
- Merville - Park of the Château.
- Montréjeau - Gardens and park of the Château de Valmirande.
- Toulouse - The Royal Garden.
- Toulouse - Parc de la Reynerie
- Toulouse - The Japanese Garden in Compans-Caffarelli.
[edit] Gers
[edit] Lot
- Cahors - The Secret Gardens.
[edit] Haute-Pyrénées
[edit] Tarn
- Castres - Garden of the Bishop.
- Cordes-sur-Ciel - Garden of Paradise.
- Giroussens - Garden of Martels.
[edit] Gardens of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais
[edit] Nord
- Cassel - The Farm of Mont des Récollets.
- Halluin - The Garden of the Manoir aux Loups.
- Maroilles - The garden of Sylvie Fontaine.
[edit] Pas-de-Calais
- Chériennes - The garden of Lianes.
- Séricourt - Park of the Château de Sericourt.
[edit] Gardens of Lower Normandy
[edit] Calvados
- Cambremer - Gardens of the Pays d’Auge.
- Castillon - Plantbessin.
- Mézidon-Canon - Canon.
- Ouilly-le-Vicomte - Boutemont.
- Saint-Gabriel-Brécy - Gardensof the Château de Brécy.
- Vendeuvre - Gardens of the Château de Vendeuvre
[edit] Manche
- Cherbourg-Octeville - Park Emmanuel Liais.
- Martinvast - Château of Beaurepaire.
- Saint-Germain-des-Vaux - Garden Jacques Prévert.
- Saussey - Argences
- Tourlaville - Château des Ravalet
- Urville-Nacqueville - Château de Nacqueville
- Vauville - Château of Vauville
[edit] Orne
- Le Champ-de-la-Pierre - Parc du Domaine.
- La Rouge - Parc du Château de Lorière.
- Préaux-du-Perche - Le Jardin François.
- Rémalard - Jardin de ma petite Rochelle.
- Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet - Sassy.
[edit] Gardens of Upper Normandy
[edit] Eure
- Giverny - The Gardens of Claude Monet.
- Harcourt - Arboretum of Harcourt.
- Le Neubourg - Gardens of the château du Champ-de-Bataille.
- Miserey - The Gardens of the château de Miserey.
- Saint-Just - The Gardens of the Château de Saint-Just.
- Vandrimare - Gardens of the château de Vandrimare.
[edit] Seine-Maritime
- Auffay - Gardens of Bosmelet.
- Auzouville-sur-Ry - Jardin Plume.
- Beaumont-le-Hareng - Garden of Bellevue.
- Doudeville - Park of Galleville.
- Normanville - Garden of art and essays
- Tourville-sur-Arques - Garden of Miromesnil.
- Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville - Abbey Saint-Georges.
- Varengeville-sur-Mer - The Bois de Moutiers.
- Étaimpuis - The Clos du Coudray.
[edit] Gardens of the Loire Valley
[edit] Loire-Atlantique
- Nantes : Garden of Plants.
[edit] Maine-et-Loire
- Maulévrier : Oriental Park
- Breil - Park de Lathan.
- Champtocé-sur-Loire - Pine Gardens.
[edit] Mayenne
- Craon : Park and Gardens of the château de Craon
- La Pellerine : Gardens of la Pellerine
- Mailland - Park and Garden of Clivoy.
[edit] Sarthe
- Crannes-en-Champagne - Gardens of Mirail
- Poncé-sur-le-Loir - Gardens of the château de Poncé
- Le Lude - Park and Gardens of the château du Lude
- Louplande - Garden of the château de Vilaines
- Saint-Christophe-en-Champagne - Gardens of la Massonnière
[edit] Vendée
- Thiré - Gardens of Bâtiment
[edit] Gardens of Picardy
[edit] Aisne
- Bosmont-sur-Serre - Garden of Bosmont-sur-Serre.
- Largny-sur-Automne - Garden of the château de la Muette.
- Orgeval - Le Vendangeoir.
- Puisieux-et-Clanlieu - gardens of the château.
- Viels-Maisons - Gardens of Viels-Maisons.
[edit] Oise
- Chantilly - Park and château of Chantilly
- Chantilly - Potager des Princes
- Compiègne - Park and château of Compiègne
- Fontaine-Chaalis - Rose garden of the Abbey of Chaalis
- Senlis - Park of the château de Valgenceuse
- Vez - Garden of the castle-keep of Vez
[edit] Somme
- Abbeville - Gardens of the Château de Bagatelle
- Argoules Gardens of Valloires
- Maizicourt - Garden of the château de Maizicourt
- Morvillers-Saint-Saturnin - Park of the Château de Digeon
- Rambures – Park and rose garden of the château
- Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme - Herbarium of the ramparts
[edit] Gardens of Poitou-Charentes
[edit] Charente
- Mouthiers-sur-Boëme : Logis de Forge
- Tusson : The Medieval Monastic Garden.
[edit] Charente-Maritime
- Saint-Porchaire : La Roche Courbon
- Saint-Dizant-du-Gua : Parks and Gardens of the château de Beaulon
- Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron : Gardens of la Boirie
[edit] Deux-Sevres
- Beaulieu-sous-Parthenay : La Guyonnière
[edit] Vienne
- Aslonnes : Laverré
- Bonnes : Touffou
[edit] Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
[edit] Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Mane : Gardens of the Priory of Salagon
- Mane : Gardens of the château de Sauvan
- Valensole : Clos de Villeneuve
[edit] Hautes-Alpes
- Gap : Domaine of Charance
- Villar-d'Arêne : Alpine Garden of Lautaret
[edit] Alpes-Maritimes
- Mandelieu-la-Napoule : Park of the château de la Napoule
- Menton : Garden of the palais Carnolès
- Menton : Greenhouse of la Madone
- Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat : Gardens of the Villa Ephrussi
[edit] Bouches-du-Rhône
- Eguilles : Garden of Eguilles
- Eygalières : Garden of the Alchemist
- Marseille : Park Borély
- Marseille : Park Longchamp
- Marseille : Garden of la Magalone
- Marseille : Park of the 26 centuries
[edit] Var
- La Londe-les-Maures : Garden of Tropical Birds
- Le Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer : Domaine of Rayol
- Saint-Zacharie : Park of the Moulin Blanc
- La Valette-du-Var : Domaine d'Orvès
[edit] Vaucluse
- Pertuis : Garden of the château de Val Joanis
- Sorgues : Garden of the Château de Brantes
[edit] Gardens of the Rhône-Alpes
[edit] Drôme
- Beaumont-Monteux : Gardens of Erik Borja
- La Garde-Adhémar - Herb Garden.
- Valence : Park Jouvet
[edit] Isère
- La Tronche : Garden of the Museum Hébert d'Uckerman
- Le Touvet : Gardens of the Château du Touvet
- Vizille : Park of the Château de Vizille
[edit] Loire
- Usson-en-Forez - Garden of the EcoMuseum.
[edit] Rhône
- Saint-Georges-de-Reneins : Park of the château de Laye.
- Lyon - Park of the Tête d'Or.
- Lyon - Park de Gerland.
[edit] Savoie
- Le Bourget-du-Lac - The Gardens of the Priory.
[edit] Haute-Savoie
- Evian : Water Garden of the Pré Curieux
- Samoëns : Alpine botanical garden of La Jaÿsinia
- Yvoire : The Labyrinth, the Garden of the Five Senses
[edit] Guadeloupe
- Sainte-Rose - The Jardin Créole.
- Petit-Canal - The Landscape Park.
- Petit-Bourg - The Domaine of Vallombreuse.
- Deshaies - The Botanical Gardens..
[edit] Bibliography
- Michel Racine, Jardins en France - Guide illustré,, Actes Sud, 1999
- Lucia Impelluso, Jardins, potagers et labyrinthes, Éditions Hazan, Paris 2007
