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International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire

The festival, first held in 1992, has gained international recognition as one of the most important landscape gardening events. The event showcases the latest trends in parks and gardens.

This year’s edition will focus on colourful gardens designed to engage the senses – with intense reds, deep blues, white and black. The distinctive projects presented in the Chaumont gardens are bound to surprise visitors.

This year visitors will be able to see the gardens by moonlight. Night visits will take place between 10 p.m. and midnight.

Michel Pastoureau – a historian, colour specialist and internationally renowned author of numerous works on the subject – has been entrusted with the chairmanship of the 2009 festival jury, which has selected 20 gardens from among over 300 proposals received from around the world.

Outside of the competition, a number of prominent figures have also been invited to take part. They include Patrick Blanc, who will mark his return to Chaumont-sur-Loire with a new project; Erik Borja and Simon Crouzet, who will intervene in the château grounds; Michel Racine and Béatrice Saurel; painter Christophe Cuzin, a specialist in colour; and renowned colourist Christophe Robin. New coloured versions of three gardens featured at last year’s festival will also be presented.

This year, for the first time, the National School of Higher Studies in Nature and Landscape Architecture of Blois will be contributing to the event. Students will work on the theme of light alongside their teacher, Vincent Thiesson.

More information and contact

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
41150 Chaumont-sur-Loire

Tel.: +33 (0)2 54 20 99 22

• Website of Festival

Source: texts, CDAN; photographs provided by the  press department of Festival. Vue du Domaine - Photo Alex MacLean.

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