Colette, a very talented writer, was also known for her love of nature and animals.
Created in 2007 by the landscape architect Anouk Debarre, the floral park "Les Jardins de Colette", located near the castle of Castel-Novel in Varetz, 10 minutes from Brive where she lived for ten years, from 1911 to 1923, with her second husband Henry de Jouvenel, invites you to plunge into the world of this great novelist of the 20th century.
A unique universe to discover in a playful and original way, the nature that surrounds us! From the garden of her childhood in Burgundy to the Gardens of the Palais Royal where Colette ended her life, it is a real tour of France that is proposed to you. On the program, Burgundy, the childhood garden, Franche-Comté, the wild garden, Brittany, the seaside garden, Corrèze, the green garden, Provence, the sensory garden, the Palais Royal, the French garden.
A giant labyrinth of 5000 m², XXL size wooden games (dominoes, mikados, tic-tac-toe...), a playful vegetable garden, funny animals... which invite you to follow the steps of Colette's heroine, Claudine, impertinent schoolgirl, many remarkable trees such as centenary oaks, tulip trees, fruit trees: pear trees, cherry trees, apricot trees, almonds, quince trees. ... Shrubs such as Butterfly Trees, Marsh Ketmies, Marsaults Willows, Triandra, Fragilis, Alba ... Perennials: Agapanthus, Indigo Lupins, Rudbeckias, Panicauts, Hemerocallis, Lavender...
Since 2009, the gardens propose a program of animations around two themes, that of the garden and that of Colette, writer.
Colette's Gardens
D 152 - Place called "La Chassagne
19240 Varetz
Tel : 05 55 86 75 35
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