Parc et jardin du Château de Beauregard

A palette of colours for the garden of portraits. The famous Renaissance castle, with its Gallery of Famous Men (“Gallerie des Illustres”) holding 327 portraits of great historical figures over three centuries, lies in a 70 -hectare park. This English-style landscaped park is composed of many different varieties of trees and shrubs and a collection of cedars, oaks and trees with different barks. In this setting, the famous landscape architect Gilles Clément has designed a modern garden greatly inspired by centuries of garden history. An echo to the Gallery of Famous Men architectural type, the Garden of Portraits (“Jardin des Portraits”) is laid as a series of 12 small-scale rooms evoking the species, colours and symbols that gardens have displayed over three centuries. This garden covering 5,000 m2 is set in the old kitchen garden, a hollow space conveniently providing a plunging view. The visitor may also walk inside the green chambers. In each of these, perennials compose monochrome pictures with exuberant flowering, from May to October. The choice of plants is planned to let the garden flower, in all its parts, from May through to October permanently. The garden chambers are bordered with climbing clematis and around fifty varieties of old roses blooming from May through to July. Ruins of the XIVth century chapel are surrounded with a heath garden (rhododendrons, azalea, camelia, magnolia, andromedas and ferns). Cyclamen carpets are in bloom in September.