Serre de la Madone Garden - Menton French Riviera
Serre de la Madone, the plantsman’s dream
From 1924 onwards, Lawrence Johnston, an American born in Paris, began to create a winter garden in Menton, a place which would be both stylish and spectacular. There were to be double curving steps, fountains, pools, classical statuary, green garden (...)
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Val Rahmeh garden - Menton French Riviera
Mediterranean antenna of the National History Museum
The Botanical Gardens of the Val Rahmeh were created on several levels by Lord Percy Radcliffe, a former Governor of Malta, in 1905.
Here, in this incredible garden he collected "Labiacées" and "Solanacées" (from the datura family) and a (...)
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Maria Serena garden - Menton French Riviera
Right on the sea front, and the last house before the Italian border, the Maria Serena Villa and Gardens, attributed to Charles Garnier, was constructed around 1880 for the family of Ferdinand de Lesseps. The Coty president has stayed in the house. Today it is a guest villa for the city of (...)
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Fontana Rosa garden - Menton French Riviera
Created in the 20’s by the scriptwriter and novelist Blasco Ibañez, Fontana Rosa is a Valencia style garden of ceramics dedicated to the memory of important writers. This estate, which he bought in 1921 reminds him of Spain. His Spain, which was never far from his mind, with its gardens of vivid (...)
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Palais Carnolès Garden - Menton French Riviera
The Citrus Garden of the “Palais Carnolès”
Surrounding the once summer residence of the Princes of Monaco, the garden of the “Palais Carnolès” contain the largest citrus fruit collection in Europe.
The town’s Gardens Department wants to promote local botanical heritage, drawing special attention (...)
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Colombières garden - (private) Menton French Riviera
one of the most reputed Mediterranean gardens
Ferdinand Bac, painter and novelist, designed and built this estate on the top of Menton, in the site of Garavan for his friends the Ladan-Bockairy family between 1918 and 1927.
From the Maison, the stroller embarks in fact on a journey around (...)
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Clos du Peyronnet - (private) Menton French Riviera
This estate is the last garden of Menton that remains the property of the same family since 1915. The current owner, William Waterfield, specially interested in botany, collects tropical species, particularly bulb plants from South Africa.
The landscaping of the garden Clos du Peyronnet is (...)
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La Citronneraie Garden - (private) Menton French Riviera
La Citronneraie has essentially a productive area of olive and lemon trees but other citrus fruit is also grown including grapefruit, oranges, mandarins, clementines and pomelos. In addition there are about 20 varieties of hybrids such as the famous "cedrat" (Buddha’s hand), limes, citrange, (...)
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