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This is a list of Remarkable Gardens in France, arranged by Regions of France. The title of Remarkable Garden (French: 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.

Alsace

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View of the chateaux of Kintzheim and of Haut-Kœnigsbourg from the road between Châtenois and Kintzheim

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Aquitaine

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Dordogne

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Manoir d'Eyrignac (Dordogne)
  • 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.
Rose Garden, Chateau de Losse (Dordogne)
  • Manor d'Eyrignac in Salignac. A recreated Italian Renaissance garden and topiary garden around a hilltop manor house from the 18th century.
Gardens of Marqueyssac (Dordogne)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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Auvergne

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Basse-Normandie

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Bourgogne

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Côte D'or

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

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  • 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

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Saône-et-Loire

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Château de Drée
  • 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

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  • 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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Botanical garden of Upper Brittany
  • 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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Bibliography

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  • Michel Racine, Jardins en France — Guide illustré,, Actes Sud, 1999.
  • Lucia Impelluso, Jardins, potagers et labyrinthes, Éditions Hazan, Paris, 2007.

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