• Portfolio

    Portfolio

    Perennial morning glories

    The blue trumpets of the essential morning glory ‘Heavenly Blue’ are familiar to us, but we are less familiar with the perennial varieties of which the botanist Patrick Blanc has gathered a collection brought back from his travels around the world in the arboretum of La Vallée-aux-Loups in Châtenay-Malabry (92).

  • Mediterranean gardens

    Mediterranean gardens

    Hanbury Gardens, a century and a half of brilliant acclimatization

    The Mortola Gardens, created in 1867 by Thomas Hanbury, are revered as a botanical and landscaped oasis, demonstrating the immense potential of acclimatization.

  • New Plants

    New Plants

    The new award-winning dahlias

    A farandole of superb new dahlias awarded at the international competition in Paris, the Criterium d'Orléans and the Coutances Dahlia Festival

  • Mediterranean gardens

    Mediterranean gardens

    Mediterranean perennials and bulbs, the all-rounders

    The range of cold-resistant Mediterranean plants is wider than one might imagine. These species, accustomed to dry summers, are adapted to a rather autumnal and winter rainfall regime… while always avoiding their roots stagnating in waterlogged soil.

  • Mediterranean gardens

    Mediterranean gardens

    Eternally Provençal, the Jean Mus style

    On the terraces of the Grasse region, landscaper Jean Mus has highlighted the uneven terrain and the shape of the old basins, with a series of paving stones and steps that disappear beneath the olive trees.

  • Between art and botany

    Between art and botany

    In Ardèche an open-air gallery

    Mercurart is as much a garden with varied spaces, rich in numerous botanical collections, as an open-air gallery where works are exhibited that respond to the sometimes scientific, sometimes poetic speculation of their designer.

  • Discovery

    Discovery

    Corfu, an island floating on the Ionian Sea

    Corfu, nicknamed the "garden of the gods", combines the Mediterranean sun with a climate a little less arid than that of the continent. On its reliefs, many gardeners have come to set up their gardens, which they open to visitors for a few days in the spring: an opportunity for multiple discoveries.

  • Mediterranean gardens

    Mediterranean gardens

    Torre d’Ariant, a founding Mediterranean garden

    Created by Heidi Gildemeister on the island of Majorca, Torre d’Ariant was the founder of a new culture of gardens in the Mediterranean climate.