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The Loire
Valley is the home of many excellent gardens; indeed, every farmer’s vegetable garden is a thing of beauty.
A few of the more interesting gardens are found at:
Villandry
A team of 8 fulltime gardeners maintain this 17-acre
Renaissance garden. Combining the monastery kitchen garden
tradition and the ornamental garden of Italy with fountains
and arbours, this immense garden has 3 levels containing 4
different gardens; kitchen; ornamental (subdivided into the
Gardens of Love, Music and crosses); herb and water.
Doue la
Fontaine
The
Roserie du Parc Foulon has more than 5,000 rose bushes all
of which are identified.
Chateau
du Pin
A
19C Eng. Garden with 14 reflecting pools and beautifully sculpted
Yew trees.
Nantes
The Jardin des Plantes combines a large park with an unusual
encyclopaedic classification of plants by species and medicinal
usage.
Japanese gardens and Pagoda sit proudly on the bank of the
Erdre River.
The
Parc du Grand-Blottereau is pure “folie” with
ancient Colonial greenhouses, species of exotic plants and
camellias; it is a marvel of 2,000 plants of 600 different
species.
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