Or should that be French formal garden? I'm not sure. Anyway, there is one, a big one, the Chateau Vaux le Vicompte, at Melun, a suburb of Paris, and we took a quick away day (and night) to go and see it.
Yep, it's big, with fountains, statues, formal plantings and (surprisingly) a very nice informal planting. Fireworks and candle illuminatins in the evening too, if you go on a Saturday. The mansion is grand too, and looks out over the garden.
You can rent handy little electric carts to travel around the grounds, they're neat, and they're worth using, as well as being fun, and not too expensive.
The weather wasn't kind to us - I experienced a genuine cold front - it was warm, and there there was a cold gust of wind, and the temperature was down 5 degrees C. Oh and rain came. But it was well worth the visit in any case.
The garden looks delightful. Is the house open for visitig?
ReplyDeleteI've spent many an hour in Melun, not a long way from Orly, then road down to Fontainebleau.
ReplyDeleteHello Cherie, French formal gardens were designed to be viewed from the house and you can go inside, see the rooms and the garden
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