Partners: Public Garden

The Garden of Vaux-le-Vicomte is organized around a brilliantly controlled perspective , more than three kilometers long. By composing the staging of the castle and its setting in the space of 33 hectares cut in the heart of nature,  André Le Nôtre and Louis le Vau achieve the most perfect harmony between architecture and landscape of the entire 17th century . The strength and nobility of its overall design, the abundance of water and surprises and its theatrical majesty make the garden of Vaux-le-Vicomte the founding work of a new art, that of French gardens. . They also make this theater an invitation to knowledge, imagination and pleasure.

The neo-futurist Jardins d’Étretat extend over the cliffs of the Côte d’Albâtre, one of the wonders of Normandy with a view listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The gardens are part of a set of volumes in topiary where the landscape, contemporary art, and architecture dialogue in all poetry.

The Château has boasted gardens since the Renaissance from the 16th century, French in the 18th century and transformed into a landscaped park in the 19th century, the gardens of Villandry, which were redesigned by Joachim Carvallo in the early 20th century, are an original creation blending tradition and innovation.

Endemic Reunionese plants unique in the world, world collection of coffee trees, tropical fruit trees, palm trees, large variety of cacti, Creole orchard, cathedral bamboos, orchids and mixed ferns, Creole residence

Since its public opening in 1933, the Exotic Garden of Monaco has stayed totally unique. It gathers, outdoor, in a prestigious setting, a big variety of plants called “succulent”. Built on the cliff-side, the Exotic Garden offers a breathtaking view of Monaco where you discover succulent plants with extravagant shapes.

With 7 hectares of greenery in the city center, 10,000 living species, 800 square meters of greenhouses and 50,000 flowers planted each season, the Jardin des Plantes de Nantes, labeled Remarkable Garden, is one of the four major gardens of France. 2 million visitors a year enjoy Claude Ponti’s playground, entertainment, concerts and exhibitions.

The Botanical Garden highlights plant biodiversity and presents more than  3,000 plants  in two exceptional gardens. Unique in the world, the botanical garden offers in its gallery of environments 11 natural landscapes of the Aquitaine basin reconstituted.

Botanical garden rich in four centuries of scientific adventures, the Jardin des Plantes is the historic heart of the National Museum of Natural History. Every day, thousands of visitors, hundreds of researchers and students meet there. This extraordinary place is a museum, a botanical and zoological garden, a research center and a university.