International Garden Festival

The 2023 edition of the seminal International Garden Festival in Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, presents The Resilient garden as its theme. Climate change and degradation of the living world are the new data now confronting the planet’s once temperate areas. These days, fragility, imbalance and uncertainty are our central concerns, requiring each and every one of us to adapt to a changing climate, by minimising the adverse effects of high temperatures, rethinking the way we behave, combating heat islands, and using new and traditional solutions alike in the face of increasing scarcity of shade and water.
Moderation, self-sufficiency resulting from permaculture, edible forests and green corridors…everything has to be put to work to reinforce our gardens’ resilience, anticipate, act, bounce back, and reduce vulnerabilities.
Such is the challenge put to the 2023 edition’s garden designers, who have come up with projects that open up avenues enabling gardens – distillations of life and biodiversity – to resist the excesses of the Anthropocene.

Time: various, until 5 Nov.

https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/international-garden-festival/2023-edition-resilient-garden