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Le Lude\u2019s garden is ranked a \u00ab remarkable garden \u00bb by the French Ministry of Culture.<\/strong>[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1756566939463{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

A Renaissance terraced garden<\/h3>\n

During the XVIIth century, the old fortress surrounded by its wide dry moat gave way to an elegant terrace edged by a stone balustrade of over 200 metres long, while a \u2018suspended\u2019 garden was created in the 18th century on the foundations of the fortress.<\/p>\n

French tradition and English influence<\/h3>\n

The lower gardens, which run along the riverbank, were originally a vegetable garden. This was moved further away to leave space for romantic French-style gardens designed by Edouard Andr\u00e9, the renowned landscaper, in the XIXth century. Parterres of flowers and ponds succeed each other, while an assortment of scented flowering shrubs (chimonanthus, lilac, philadelphus, calycanthus\u2026) form a long border along the wall.
\nAt the same period, the great fields located on the opposite bank were planted as a landscape park.<\/p>\n

The spring garden provides the link to the woodland park. Spring-flowering perennials (hellebore, euphorbia, geranium) surround rockery features built in the 19th century such as a kiosk, grotto and landing stage.<\/p>\n

Recently, a collection of rare trees and shrubs were planted under the supervision of the plant collector Jacky Pousse. A lot of winter flowering shrubs, such as daphne, mahonia, sarcococca and lonicera, can be found in the park, but also several species of maples, limetrees, oaks, styrax etc\u2026<\/p>\n

A chinese rose collection<\/h3>\n

The \u00ab Eperon garden \u00bb, designed in 1997 by Count Augustin d\u2019Ursel, spreads out in front of the Louis XVI fa\u00e7ade. The yew hedges map out the architecture of the fortress and enclose a maze and a rose garden. There, one finds a collection of Chinese, tea and hybrid tea roses such as ‘Mutabilis’, \u2018Sanguinea\u2019, ‘Old Blush’, Le Vesuve\u2019 and \u2018Irene Watts’.<\/p>\n

The family kitchen garden<\/h3>\n

The 2-hectare vegetable garden was designed by Edouard Andr\u00e9 in 1880. It includes several greenhouses, an orangery and beds of seedlings, and is still in use today. Rows of fruit trees, flowers and rare vegetables fill its three terraces. This private garden is currently close to public for renovation until spring 2026. Please excuse us for the unexpected inconvenience<\/p>\n

Our events in the gardens<\/h3>\n

Every year since 1994, on the first weekend of June, a Garden festival<\/a> takes place in Le Lude\u2019s gardens, which welcoms the best nurseries of Western France, and hosts the \u201cPrix Pierre-Joseph Redout\u00e9<\/a>\u201d, which is awarded to the author of the best garden book of the year.[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_custom_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1489054828018{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][mk_custom_box padding_vertical=”56″ padding_horizental=”15″ min_height=”350″ bg_image=”https:\/\/www.lelude.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/home-fond-call.jpg” overlay_color=”rgba(0,84,121,0.9)” bg_stretch=”true”][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-users” color=”white” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:%23|||” el_class=”iconeinfo” css=”.vc_custom_1489153747323{margin-bottom: 16px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h4″ color=”#ffffff” size=”24″ font_weight=”600″ font_family=”none” align=”center”]group booking[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text align=”center”]\n

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