The Experimental Garden Designed by Bernard Wolgensinger, a renowned architect who has devoted 10 years to landscape design. He is, along with Mark Rudkin, the co-designer of Palais Royal gardens in Paris. Version française

This experimental garden was inspired by the first botanical garden of Europe, created in Padua, Italy, in 1545. Here we present the best creations from past garden festivals from a new angle: plant walls, woven willow trees, gabions (woven-branch retaining walls), etc. We also use this site to test new plant associations and behaviours over the span of the four seasons.
The garden features lilies from the Incas this year, a collection of geraniums and of peonies. The Horticultural School of Blois is installing a demonstration on the pelargonium : the original plants, mutations and interesting hybrids to show how this plant, incorrectly called "geranium", offers more benefits that we may know.

The circular garden is divided into four quarters. Square beds, hollowed out on ground level or raised, create different environments to experiment with. A rounded planting surface, terraced like steps, accommodates newcomer plants from Asia with maximum exposure to the sun. In these beds, we sometimes mix strange bedfellows. Japanese carps swim lazily in the crescent-shaped pool. Interwoven willow stalks take on astonishing shapes, guided by the iron blades that reinforce the pergolas. Pear and apple trees pruned in a palm-leaf shape continue the effect, as espaliers. Bulb flowers grow at their feet. An enormous crouching rabbit shaped from a yew tree supervises the whole garden, or perhaps is ready to chew it up.

Garden created with the support of Pépinières Crosnier, de Serrurerie ADRAST, de la SIREV, de Alture (Mulcao), d'Amboise Paysages & de Robinet Frères.