The Jardins du Château Val Joanis are a private garden, open to the public, recreating an 18th century French kitchen garden and Garden à la française

Garden à la française

The French formal garden, also called jardin à la française, is a style of garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order over nature. It reached its apogee in the 17th century with the creation of the Gardens of Versailles, designed for Louis XIV by the landscape architect André Le...

, in the town of Pertuis

Pertuis

Pertuis is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.Located south of the Luberon, this town is also near Aix-en-Provence, a famous town. Pertuis has existed since at least 981, while a castle was first built in the 12th century...

 in the Vaucluse

Vaucluse

The Vaucluse is a department in the southeast of France, named after the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.- History :Vaucluse was created on 12 August 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes...

 Department of France. They are classified by the French Ministry of Culture among the Notable Gardens of France

Notable gardens of France

The Remarkable Gardens of France is intended to be a list and description, by region, of the over two hundred gardens classified as "Jardins remarquables" by the French Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France...

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Description

The gardens are laid out on three terraces, and are designed to resemble a French garden of the eighteenth century, combining both ornamental plants and selection of vegetables and fruits. It features rose trees, ornamental bushes, and old varieties of pears, apples and other fruit attached to the walls in the style of the 18th century. It also has vineyard, a garden of herbs, a collection of asters, and boxwood hedges trimmed in ornamental forms. An arbor covered with climbing roses joins the three terraces. They also incorporate stones from an old Roman basin.

History

The gardens were begun in 1978 by the owner of the property, Cécile Chancel, with landscape architect Tobbie Loup de Viane. They were completed in their present form in 1990.

Sources and Citations

The history and description of the garden is taken from the site of the French Committee for Parks and Gardens of the Ministry of Culture.

External links

• Site of the Jardins du Chateau Val Joanis
• Pictures and description on the site of the French Committee of Parks and Gardens