Please browse below, for descriptions and information on lovely gardens in our garden tours of France:
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- Ile de France
- Bagatelle - Not only an atmosphere of poetic beauty and serenity close to the bustle of Paris, but also a place of great historical and horticultural interest.
(Mairie de Paris) (P)
- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte - Designed by André Le Nôtre, the master of 17th century layout, this magnificent formal garden on the grand scale is a landmark in garden history (P)
- Roseraie de l'Haÿ-les-Roses - Claiming to be the first rose-garden in the world, here you will find over 3,300 different varieties of the species Rosa. (Departement du Val de Marne) (P).
- Haute-Normandie
- Monet's garden A beautiful garden of ethereal colour harmonies and contrasts and the famous artist's reflective water-lily ponds (Fondation Claude Monet) (P).
- Le Bois des Moutiers A spring garden by the famous English designers Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. (Mallet family) (P)
- Le Vasterival. A garden for all seasons, created by Princess Sturdza since 1957. (Princess Sturdza)
- Basse-Normandie
- Musée Christian Dior Family house and exhibition of Dior's original designs surrounded by his restored garden on a cliff above the sea. (Fondation Christian Dior) (P)
- Le Jardin de l'Hôtel le Poupinel. A harmonious compromise between the English style and the rectilinear allées charactaristic of French gardens. (Ville de Coutances) (P)
- Le Jardin de Château de Brécy. One of the last remaining classical French early 17th-century gardens, well ornamented with lichen covered stone walls and statuary (M. et Mme. Wirth)
- Le Jardin de Plantbessin. A 50m square space, with diverse planting and intimate and compact design (Mme Colette and M Hubert Sainte-Beuve.)
- Loire Valley
- Parc Floral de la Source. Thousands of spring bulbs; thousands of summer bedding plants; 400 different rose cultivars; thousands of late summer flowers; all beneath avenues of trees and flowering shrubs.
- Château de Villandry. The ultimate parterre garden with the famous potager, beside a magnificent French chateau of 1536. (M. et Mme R. Carvallo)
- Jardin des Plantes, Nantes. A botanic garden, with greenhouses and order beds, streams, pools, cascades, rhododendrons, camellias, roses, aromatic trees and magnolias descended from originals introduced here from Virginia. (Ville de Nantes)
