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 château and its park are open year-round, but the highlight of the calendar is the garden festival from April to November, overflowing with botanical curiosities, rare species, and extraordinary blooms that are usually considered unobtainable.
A Look Back at the 2024 Edition of the International Garden Festival
The “Life-Source Garden” edition highlights the garden as an extraordinary living space, where the forces of nature express themselves in al their forms. It emphasizes the need to protect gardens and their allies - creatures that offer us countless benefits - at a time when insect populations are alarmingly in decline. This theme also sets the stage for the challenge taken on by the designers of the 2024 gardens, who successfully illustrated this issue through creative and innovative projects aimed at raising public awareness of the essential role gardens play.
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? While the winning projects won’t be revealed until February, we already know that the participants which include landscape architects, designers, scenographers, architects, and urban planners, they all have drawn inspiration from the world of tales and poetry which is the theme of the 2025 edition. Visitors to the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire will be able to discover creations by a wide range of talents.
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