User:SlaveToTheWage/List of Remarkable Gardens of France

This is a list of Remarkable Gardens in France, arranged by Regions of France. The title of Remarkable Garden (Jardins Remarquables) is awarded by the French Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France. There are over 200 such gardens in France.

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 * Jardin de l'Escalier - (1973) A small private modern romantic floral garden in Brumath.
 * The Park of Ruins of the Château de Kintzheim. An early 19th century romantic landscape garden in Kintzheim.
 * Garden of the Château de Kolbsheim - (1703)  French garden and English landscape park in Kolbsheim
 * Le Domain de Windeck - (1835). Romantic landscape park, with views of the ruined castle of Ottrott.
 * Le Jardin de Marguerite - (1990) Small private English "secret" garden in the the Alsatian village of Plobsheim.
 * Jardin botanique du col de Saverne - Botanical garden in an enclave in the Vosges Forest.
 * Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg - Founded in 1619, the second-oldest botantical garden in France.
 * Jardin de la Ferme Bleu - Modern garden on the site of a 17th century farm in Uttenhoffen.
 * Parc de la Marseillaise. Public arboretum and botantical garden, designed by Edouard Andre between 1897 and 1899.
 * Parc de Wesserling  (17 hectares) Private garden at the site of a the hunting lodge of the prince-abbey of Murbach (1699).  Formal French garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, field garden and contemporary garden.
 * Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse. (25 hectares) Public botanical gardens and zoo, English landscape park.
 * 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 allées.

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Aquitaine
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Dordogne

 * - Château de Caudon in Domme .  Garden a la francaise and English landscape park, created between 1808 and 1814 by the Marquis Jacques de Malville, one of the authors of the French Civil Code.


 * Park and Kitchen Garden of Pouthet in Eymet. A small 18th century chateau in the valley of  the Dropt River  features an avenue of cedar planted in 1860 and flower gardens.


 * Château de Hautefort in Hautefort - . 17th century chateau, Garden à la française, landscape park, Italian hilltop garden.


 * Garden of Planbuisson in Le Buisson-de-Cadouin.  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.


 * Gardens of Albarède in Saint-Cybranet A modern garden featuring 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, and examples of the rural architecture of the Perigord region.




 * Garden of Conty in Saint-Germain-de-Belvès. A modern 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.


 * Manor d'Eyrignac in Salignac. A recreated Italian Renaissance garden and topiary garden around a hilltop manor house from the 18th century.


 * Château de Losse in Thonac . Recreation of a Renaissance pleasure garden on the walls of a château next to the Vézère River.




 * Château de Marqueyssac at Vézac. 17th century chateau and 18th century gardens, transformed in the 19th century into an Italian garden and filled with fanciful topiary sculptures.


 * The Gardens of the Imagination (Jardins de l'Imaginaire) in Terrasson-Lavilledieu. This contemporary garden, a public park of the town of Terrasson, presents in thirteen tableaux the myths and legends of the history of gardens.


 * Gardens of Sardy in Vélines. 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.


 * The Château de Montréal in Issac . The Chateau was built in 1535, in the Renaissance style, on the site of a fortress dating to the 13th and 14th centuries.  Within the ramparts are Italian gardens and a Garden à la française.


 * Gardens of La Bourlie in Urval. A private 14th century chateau with a 17th century kitchen garden, 18th century Garden à la française, and English landscape park.

Gironde

 * Château Lanessan in Cussac-Fort-Médoc.  An English landscape garden, surrounded by vinyards, created in 1878 at one of the wine-producing chateaux of the Medoc region of Bordeaux.


 * Château de Mongenan at Portets. Botanical gardens and pre-romantic garden created in 1741 by the Baron de Gasq in the spirit of his friend and music teacher,Jean-Jacques Rousseau.


 * Château de Malle at Preignac.  Garden à la française created and 1724 at a chateau famed for its sauterne wines.


 * Château de Vayres at Vayres. - A medieval castle on the Dordogne River rebuilt in the Renaissance. The Garden à la française was recreated in 1938.

Auvergne
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Basse-Normandie
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Bourgogne
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Côte D'or
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 * Château d'Arcelot in Arceau. Landscape park, created 1805.   Chinese pavilion and orangerie.


 * The Mill of Athie in Athie. Private aboretum and botanical garden created in late 1970s. 16th century mill.  Water lilies, topiaries. (see photos)


 * Château de Barbirey in Barbirey-sur-Ouche. 19th century English landscape garden surrounding an 18th century country house. (See photos)

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 * Château de Lantilly in Lantilly -19th century arboretum and botanical gardens.


 * Park of Saint-Léger de Fourches in Saulieu. Landscape park created in 1840, that once surrounded a large 15th century chateau. (see photos).


 * Château de Talmay in [Talmay]] The Chateau is from the mid-18th century; the gardens date to 1752. Labyrinth, topiaries, eight giant plane trees planted in 1752; and alleys of peony, iris and rose.

Nièvre

 * Chateau de La Chaux in Alligny-en-Morvan. 19th century landscape garden and arboretum, with many trees planted in 1850. Small chateau and hamlet. (See photos).


 * Château de Châtillon-en-Bazois in Châtillon-en-Bazois. An English landscape park, a classic French garden, and a modern garden of fountains and basins placed between a medieval chateau and a busy canal. (see photos)


 * Gardens of Forgeneuve at .Coulanges-lès-Nevers. Landscape garden, kitchen garden and floral garden on the site site of an old iron forge, dating from 1660 and 1820, beside the river Nièvre.

Saône-et-Loire



 * Garden of the Zéphyr in Anglure-sous-Dun. A private English landscape garden and contemporary garden, created in 2001. Three hundred varieties of roses.  (see photos)


 * Château de Drée in Curbigny. 17th century chateau and garden a la francaise, with a fountain, folly, and 1300 rose bushes.


 * Château de Chaumont at Oyé 18th century chateau and gardens a la francaise.  Alleys of linden trees and chestnut trees, and  grand alley of yew trees in topiary forms.


 * Château de Digoine at Palinges 18th century chateau set in a garden a la francaise and a 35 hectare landscape park, with a neoclassical greenhouse from the 1830s. the flower garden was redesigned in the 1920s by landscape architect Achille Duchene.
 * Chateau de Sully, in Sully 18th century chateau with an 18th century garden a la francaise, and an English park with forested alleys and a giant sequoia tree.


 * Jardins Romans at Varenne-l'Arconce A contemporary botanical garden with five themes, including aquatic plants, an aromatic garden, a tunnel of roses, a medieval medicinal garden, and a garden of plants useful to mankind.

Yonne

 * Château de Thorigny in Thorigny-sur-Oreuse. Originally the domain of Jean-Baptiste Lambert, the treasurer of the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV, who built a chateau there around 1641, and who commissioned Andre Le Notre to design the gardens. The chateau was destroyed during the French Revolution, and the park was recreated in the 19th century by Pierre Carlier, the Chief of the French Police from 1849–1851, with canals, a stream and cascade, hedges, roses, plane trees, fruit trees and flower beds.

Bretagne
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 * Le Châtellier - The Gardens of Haute-Bretagne, Botanical garden of Upper Brittany.  The Manor of Foltière, which stood in the gardens, was the headquarters of an uprising against the government of the French Republic in 1796 led by the comte de Puisaye. In 1847, the land surrounding the pond in the park was redesigned as an English romantic landscape garden, with winding paths that followed the terrain, and a perspective from the lawn in front of the manor to the church tower of the village.

The botanical park is made up of 24 gardens and three parts : the Arcadia' gardens that refer to classical antiquity and recall  the youth, the romantic gardens represent maturity and plenitude, the twilight' gardens offer a timeless composition which represents the old age. The gardens have over seven thousand varieties of plants, particularly those that grow well in an acid soil, including camelias, magnolias, rhododendrons and hydrangeas. The four hundred camelias reach their peak around 20 March, while the azaleas flower in April. (see photos)
 * Parc Botanique de Haute-Bretagne

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Champagne-Ardenne
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Corsica
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Franche-Comté
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Haute-Normandie
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Île-de-France
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Languedoc-Roussillon
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Limousin
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Lorraine
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Midi-Pyrénées
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Nord-Pas de Calais
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Pays de la Loire
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Picardie
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Poitou-Charentes
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Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Rhône-Alpes
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