Every year, the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire offers a multitude of surprises to visitors who discover the new plant creations.
Less than 200km from Paris between Tours and Blois, lies a natural oasis perched 40 metres above the wild River Loire: the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire. The doors to its chateau and surrounding park are open all year round, but the arguable star of the calendar is the garden festival from April to November, bursting with plant curiosities including some rare species, and unusual blooms usually considered unobtainable.
Back to the 2024 edition of the International Garden Festival
The "Life-source garden" edition highlights the garden as an exceptional place to live, where the forces of life unfold in all their forms. It underlines the need to protect the garden and its allies, who offer us so many benefits, in the face of the alarming disappearance of insects. It also presents the challenge faced by the designers of the 2024 gardens, who have succeeded in illustrating this challenge through creative and innovative projects aimed at raising public awareness of the essential role of gardens.
French or English, geometric or wild, always beautifully blooming, with vegetables or fragrant rose bushes: the gardens and parks of the Loire Valley amaze visitors as much as the chateaux they surround. Experience the art of outdoor living as it was during the Renaissance.
A very poetic 2025 edition
What can we expect from the new edition of the Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival? Although the winning projects won't be announced until February, we already know that the participants - landscape architects, designers, scenographers, architects and urban planners - have been inspired by the world of tales and poetry, the theme of the 2025 edition of the Festival. Visitors to the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire will be able to discover the creations of various personalities.
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