10. Le jardin de méditation

This garden is a meditation and relaxation garden, with a tropical atmosphere, designed as one of the show gardens in the International Garden Festival.

Japanese stepping stones lead visitors towards the back of the garden, a lush green setting in which arborescent ferns, banana trees and other exotic palm trees unfurl as an invitation to another world... This could be an allusion to the Far East, thanks to the presence of a mineral river which winds through the garden, a symbol of freshness on a Summer’s day. Or, at the heart of the garden, the walk on a bed of greenery, covered with a thousand ground-cover plants. And while the visitor is sitting on the planted benches, facing a string of terracotta pots, perhaps they will think of a village in the Mediterranean...

The green curtain created by the bamboos, the plethora of species, the touches of colour provided by several giant cannas under the lush foliage, the light that bathes the garden, filtered by the glistening green dome of trees, are all an invitation to travel, much like French poet Charles Baudelaire, who said “there, there is nothing but grace and measure, richness, quietness, and pleasure.”