2026 International Garden Festival visit...some of the gardens.

Below are some of the gardens from this year's 'International Garden Festival' at Chateau de Chaumont sur Loire. The theme this year is 'The garden goes to the movies' you can click on the garden names to check out the artist's inspiration. 

 

 'The Cannes Film Festival'

 'The red-kiss garden'

 'Window overlooking the courtyard'

'The Garden of Minâb'

'The Little Shop of Horrors'

Something else for the weekend

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Full weekend of music with everything from jazz to brass bands this weekend here in Touraine plus you can get out and about in the garden events taking place.

Fete De La Rose At Chateau Du Rivau

Springing forward...

Spring at Chateau Villandry

With the first real taste of winter arriving here in the Loire Valley,we are looking forward to Spring already.

Spring at Chateau Cheverny

Spring in the gardens at Loches

Something for gardeners this weekend...at Chateau Villandry gardens.

Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th, September:

Come and meet the gardeners at Chateau Villandry

This weekend the gardeners of Villandry avail themselves to amateur and professional gardeners keen to take advantage of their expertise. There are also exhibitors of local produce plus something to amuse the children…as if the gardens weren’t enough!

So whether you are an experienced gardener or just a novice you should find something of interest.  

Check their website for full program

Tulips from...Cheverny

See more pics here

Experience Loire: Spring at Chateau Villandry Gardens...

Experience Loire: Sprimg at Chateau Villandry Gardens...: Spring is a lovely time to visit the Loire Valley in France.You can see the gardeners response to the season at the wonderful gardens at Chateau Villandry...

'Bedding' plants

Seemed a shame to be putting the geraniums to 'bed' for the winter yesterday...especially when their seemed to be still a reasonable 'show' from them but needs must..

A walk in the park...

On Sunday afternoon we took a walk through the park/gardens in Descartes...it was a lovely afternoon but there were not many people out walking. which is such a shame as it is a great asset to the town and area.Here is our walk in pictures.

Living it large...

After posting the photograph of Mike and Liz's 'Albizia' tree's progress earlier in the week I couldn't help but notice its big brother in the garden of Malc.and Sue on the Lesigny road from Barrou.  

I wonder if they are aware of just how large they can get?

Flowering in France...

Friends Mike and Liz are back in England at the moment taking advantage of Olympic games tickets - they were sorry that they might not see the recently planted tree in bloom ...well here it is...very pretty.

A walk around...Villandry gardens.

The gardens at Chateau de Villandry here in the Loire valley are one of the 'must see' visits of any trip to this beautiful part of France. Split on three levels, the ornamental garden, the water garden and the kitchen garden.The gardens change with the seasons... here a picture is certainly worth a thousand words...