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Gardens in France > > Potager \'Arc en Ciel\' de Bosmelet

If you want to see a French-style potager updated to make a very modern garden then this is the garden to visit. (Potager is the French word for vegetable garden).

The kitchen garden covers two acres and a part of this is given over to Baroness Laurence de Bosmelet's rainbow (arc en ciel) kitchen garden which won a gold medal in the 2007 Chelsea Flower Show. The vegetables along with fruit and flowers are laid out in a rainbow colour scheme and rarely have vegetables looked so beautiful.

More than 900 varieties of vegetables, fruit and flowers are laid out in the design. The colours are split into 4 main groups: amber, saphire, ivory and garnet. These blocks of colour are then repeated in a formal pattern and the overall effect is stunning.

The ideas from this garden were used in the Chelsea Flower Show. This is the first French garden to have competed at Chelsea but perhaps others will now be inspired by their success.

Elsewhere in the potager is a pond, a cut-flower area and an asiatic potager.

cut flower area

Another excellent reason to visit the rainbow potager of Bosmelet is that there are a number of other great gardens just kilometers away in this garden-rich corner of France. The Clos du Coudray and Jardin Plume to name just a couple of them.

Garden Guide:

The Potager Arc en Ciel de Bosmelet is open every day in July and August and Friday to Sunday in June and Septemeber. 13h00 to 19h00.

This garden is situated in Normandy in NW France between Dieppe and Rouen.

Address:

Chateau de Bosmelet

Le Bosmelet

76720 Auffay

Tél : 02 35 32 81 07

www.chateau-de-bosmelet.fr