Every year landscape architects and designers come from all over the world to take part in the Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival. This year is no exception, with upwards of 300 projects being submitted. Chaired by the award- winning botanist Patrick Blanc, the jury has finally narrowed these down to a selection designed by international, multidisciplinary teams - on top of the “cartes vertes” ("green lights") given to guests of the Domaine, which brings the number of new gardens on show in 2015 to more than thirty. Reaching us from as far away as Latin America, South America and New Zealand, or Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, as well as France of course, these surprising extraordinary gardens will spark your imaginations.

This 24th Festival will be showcasing “collectors' gardens”, a theme selected as a tribute not only to plant curiosities and the passion of collectors, but also to the passion of all garden lovers who each celebrate, in their own way, the genius of plants through an exciting display of the art of collecting and the myriad ways this is possible.

Awarded an international prize for the "best festival of the year" in 2014, the International Garden Festival is a laboratory and observatory for garden design worldwide. Over 23 seasons, more than 700 gardens have been designed - all prototypes of the gardens of tomorrow. As both a fertile ground for invention and breeding ground for talent, the Festival plays its part in breathing new life and energy into garden art in its unwavering search for new plants, new materials, new ideas and original presentations.

The diversity, creativity and quality of these gardens have helped earn the Festival a world reputation as an unmissable diary date for a whole new generation of landscapers, architects, set designers and gardeners, as well as ever increasing numbers of visitors.