Villandry
Chateau de Villandry – a 16th century late Renaissance chateau in the Loire Valley, France…..famous for it’s magnificent gardens.
The Loire Valley, with a great number of chateaux, is listed with UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
This recreated Renaissance garden at Villandry is like a tapestry changing with the seasons.
The gardens are on three levels. At the top, from where this photo is taken, is a water garden fringed with ancient lime trees, then on the next level down, a flower garden level with the chateau and then below that is the world’s largest ornamental kitchen garden.
Eight full time gardeners maintain the gardens at Villandry. They raise and plant 60,000 vegetable and 45,000 bedding plants each year.
It truly is a delight to the senses.
National Heritage and Other Trusts Sites World Wide.
Villandry belongs to the following groups:
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hilarydougill
Fantastic capture, wonderful imagery and colour. Great vista. Fantastic gardens, the topiary is wonderful.
DefyingGravity
OMG, I have to go there! How beautiful! ;D
emele
wow, adding to my favorites so I remember I want to visit!
mieclarke
Fantastic!!
brian pendrey
great angled shot
cdwork
Awesome view! Imagine the work in keeping the maize trimmed
niggle
absolutely a stunning setting, awesome image
Greg Hale
Magic photo….........hope their gardeners are well paid.
jlynn
Wow,, what a great place and image!
Barbara Read-J...
Awesome!
Plexus04
Wow!! That is beautiful
Patricia L. Ba...
Great perspective in this one.
Jennifer Resemius
great angle. what an amazing opportunity to capture something so beautiful and you did it fabulously.
Carol & Kev Ha...
Simply magical, beautifully captured!!
AlexMac
wow simply stunning, how lucky you are to see sights like this and to capture them perfectly like this, amazing :0)
Marinella Owens
very beautiful!!!!
petelangman
lovely image… wouldn’t want to be trimming those hedges though!!!
dinghysailor1
brilliant work! what a place ! and you have captured it in 3D!! wonderful !
joak
excellent just watched a programme on tv about this place well done
coffeebean replied
Thank you very much, it was a magic garden, a great place.
Rosina Lamberti
Excellent shot
J.K. York
very tricky. now thats a full time job! excellent perspective to capture this amazing garden.
Patricia Montg...
What a fantastic capture – great job!
amarica
Wow, thanks for sharing Jenny
Daniel J. McCa...
Super composition. Amazing perspective. Terrific location. Well done, Jenny!!
Sharon Perrett
Wow stunning view jenny and what beautiful gardens, gorgeous
Robin Webster
Amazing shot! Just gorgeous!
Kathryn Potempski
this is an amazing place, we never get any thing this old in Aussie land.
Jeremy Harrington
this is great and those gardens are superb.. nice shot!
Wieberg Photog...
Absolutely beautiful, the topiary is amazing~~great image Jenny!!
Jonicool
wow, this is gorgeous!
Birgitta
Oh I would give anything to be in that maze!
What a great place and capture..
JennyDean
Wow, what a spot, wouldn’t want to lose your way on the way home hey????
coffeebean
Thank you all so very much for commenting on this photo, it was the most amazing garden, very captivating and I’m very glad you’ve enjoyed seeing this. :))
PinkLady
i would not like to get lost, nor drop mykeys halfway in that enormous maze… i thought the hever castle maze was big lol well done great image :)
coffeebean replied
Thank you so much, it really is an amazing place indeed.
Robin Brown
‘A Maze In’ shot Jenny. All the way from NZ to France, so close yet so far from bonnie Scotland. xx
Robin Brown
‘A Maze In’ shot Jenny. All the way from NZ to France, so close yet so far from bonnie Scotland. xx
coffeebean replied
Thanks Robin, yes 2 years ago was my big trip…a long trip for sure…the best thing I’ve ever done…London was as close as I came to Scotland sad to say but one day!! My Great Grandfather was a fiery redheaded Scotsman originally from Edinburgh!!
coffeetea
very beauutiful coffeebean! love to see formal gardens ~ well taken. your cousin coffeetea
coffeebean replied
Thanks so much cousin coffeetea! Glad you like these beautiful gardens.
Thomas Pettit
How classically ornate, what a beautiful capture, well done!
coffeebean replied
Thank you so much Thomas:)
Antanas
great capture
coffeebean replied
Thank you very much Antanas, glad you like.
jwawrzyniak
oh how wonderful!!! so so beautiful!
coffeebean replied
Thank you very much!
Joyce Dickens,...
Incredibly beautiful; terrific perspective…wonderful work here!
coffeebean replied
Thanks so much Joyce!
Nuh Sarche
Wonderful picture!!!
We would like to see it in our European Everyday Life GROUP
coffeebean replied
Thank you so much, sorry for the really late reply.
EarthGipsy
Loved Villandry ~ magic place :)
Stunning image ~ thought about adding it to the Heritage Listed and Other Trust Sites groups challenge
coffeebean replied
Thank you so much!
Cathy Cale
Stunning!! ({:o)
coffeebean replied
Thanks so much Cathy!
fourthangel
Oh my. I can almost imagine kids running around in that maze of a garden, like in the classic old movies! Lovely capture!