Sunday 24 July 2011

Parterre fleuri au château

The flower beds à la française at the palace.

29 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a dream to get lost in !


Please have a wonderful Sunday.

daily athens

Diane AZ said...

Fabulous, looks like a post card!

Lowell said...

I remember my first sight of the flower beds at the palace...unbelievable! I took so many photos. And I can see they are constantly changing in shape.

Nefertiti said...

magnifique,ne manque que le soleil ;O)

Kate said...

The formal gardens are works of art! Quite lovely!!

Sharon said...

I really like formal gardens. How beautiful!

Sharon

Anonymous said...

My gardener needs to step their game ;-)

Lovely, I can't imagine the hours it takes to keep it this beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Randy said...

That garden must be a full time job. It's beautiful.

Jack said...

It is beautiful and remarkable, Ciel. It is hard imaginine how much work it takes to maintain these gardens.

Dianne said...

Pretty gardens - love those low growing flowers.
How fortunate you are Ciel to live so close to the chateau.

Thirtytwo degrees said...

Lovely photo..I am reading a book about Marie Antoinette and just read about the famous Labyrinthe which was renamed later...it must have been great fun to design and build these beautiful gardens for the King and his court! The chateau belonged to all of France then and all were welcomed so long as they wore proper attire. If they could not afford it, it was lent to them at the chateau.

Malyss said...

encore un jardin que j'ai envie d'ebouriffer! lespetits massifs fleuris lui donnent un air moins coincé ceci dit. Et malgré tout, bravo au jardinier!

Bon dimanche à toi!

PerthDailyPhoto said...

I just loved the gardens at the palace, can only imagine the hours it takes in the upkeep, beautiful shot Ciel.

Dave said...

The gardens are fantastic. There must be an army of gardeners....I wonder how many?

Cezar and Léia said...

Amazing garden so well elaborated and with beautiful flowers!
Happy Sunday
Léia

brattcat said...

this is the sort of 'bed' i could linger in all day.

Kaori said...

I'd feel like Alice in the wonderland of flowers :D

VP said...

We saw something like this recently!

Rune Eide said...

Flowers like these can but put one in a better humour :-)

Thank you so much for your condolences and kind words. They were highly appreciated.

Dimple said...

Lovely! I would like to get higher, to see the overall design...

Olivier said...

une tres belle vue sur ce jardin

Thérèse said...

On ne peut que s'imaginer le travail derriere ces parterres.

Suzanne said...

These gardens are beautiful. Is it also a walkable labryinth as well? How lovely to walk it with the beauty of the flowers.

cieldequimper said...

@ Suzanne: I wouldn't try to walk there if I were you! You'd get shooed away in no time!

EG CameraGirl said...

Very lovely garden! I wish I were patient enough to garden like this!

Chattahoochee Valley Daily said...

How beautiful...I would love to stroll though here.

Mary Joy said...

What a beautiful garden! Love it.

Mary Joy from Electric Bass Guitar

Francisca said...

Ciel, slap with a wet noodle, but I must say that although your image looks fabulous, my impression is that the flowers are a bit hodge-podge...? Could just be my taste in formal gardens.

Anonymous said...

I may have accidentally hit the "yuck" button when trying to comment! So sorry. This garden is gorgeous!