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Versailles : Les jardins disparus du Roi Soleil – Versailles (France)

From 03/25/2025 to 01/04/2026

For the first time, the Palace of Versailles is opening its doors for an virtual reality journey back in time.

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Nei giardini di Hesse: tra compost, arte e consapevolezza – Montagnola (Switzerland)

From 03/29/2025 to 02/01/2026

Hermann Hesse was not only one of the most important German-language writers of the 20th century, but also a passionate gardener.

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Arboriculture au XVIIe siècle – Enquête sur un art des jardins utile en abbaye – Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville (France)

From 04/05/2025 to 11/30/2025

Through reference works and invited personalities, this exhibition will offer improved understanding of the role of fruit and their growing methods in abbey gardens in the 17th century.

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Images du jardin Albert Kahn – Saint-Goazec ( France)

From 04/26/2025 to 12/31/2027

An exhibition of around twenty colour photographs from the Albert Khan Museum collection.

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Des plantes aux paysages – La Roche-Guyon (France)

From 05/24/2025 to 11/30/2025

Within the context of its 2025 cultural season, entitled ‘Paysage vivant’ (Living Landscape), which will focus on the relationship between large landscapes and the living species they compose and host, the Château de la Roche-Guyon will be welcoming the photographer Olivier Verley in residence.

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Fabriques à graines. Histoire des semences en Essonne – Chamarande (France)

From 06/01/2025 to 11/28/2025

This exhibition retraces the story of seed manufacturing in the Essonne area via a selection of archives, bibliographical works and emblematic objects.

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Noisy, Renaissance d’un château 1525-2025 – Montigny-le-Bretonneux (France)

From 09/18/2025 to 12/18/2025

As a result of discoveries made over recent archaeological excavations initiated in 2017, this exhibition will highlight the leading historic and artistic features of the Château de Noisy over the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Jardiner – Paris (France)

From 10/12/2025 to 07/12/2026

This original temporary exhibition invites us to rethink the gardener’s hand in our contemporary era.

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L’Oise des jardins. Créateurs et créations (1600-1920) – Beauvais (France)

From 10/13/2025 to 06/26/2026

The department of Oise is a land of gardens, from the most famous to the most secret. The area has long-since been a cradle of experimentation and sometimes avant-garde creation, of which it continues to preserve the memory and the realisations.

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Projets finalistes du concours pour la requalification des jardins du Palais Royal de Bruxelles – Bruxelles (Belgium)

From 10/16/2025 to 11/21/2025

The exhibition presents the eight finalist projects of the competition launched in October 2024 by the non-profit organisation Quartier des Arts, which aims to reimagine the three gardens in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels in the perspective of Belgium's bicentenary anniversary.

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Symposiums

Jardins & santé – Paris (France)

From 11/17/2025 to 11/18/2025

Enlightened by 20 years of experience and a vast number of international publications reporting the impact on health of plant meditation, this symposium will offer a functional review of this mode of therapeutic support.

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Conferences

Réinventer un lieu emblématique du patrimoine aujourd’hui ? – Brussels (Belgium)

11/20/2025

As the closing event for the exhibition of the finalist projects in the Ideas Competition for the redevelopment of the gardens in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels, the non-profit organization Quartier des Arts is hosting an evening debate attended by the eight finalist teams of landscape architects.

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Jardin et paysage en Angleterre, 1700-1800 : création et représentation by Frédéric OGÉE – Rouen (France)

11/23/2025

Motivated by a new conception of nature and inspired by the design of the landscaped garden, the first players of the English School of painting that emerged during the 18th century gradually instrumentalised landscape art to serve the accurate representation of nature, recognisable and resolutely British.

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Parcs et jardins publics dans l’Orne du XIXe siècle à nos jours, entre patrimoine et création by Bénédicte DUTHION – Caen (France)

12/06/2025

The general cultural heritage inventory, an ‘adventure of the mind’, to quote its founders, the art historian André Chastel (1912-1990) and the French minister for culture André Malraux (1901-1976), celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2024.

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Les jardins au Maghreb à l’époque ottomane by Farid HIRECHE – Caen (France)

12/06/2025

Several accounts bear witness to the fertility and abundance of gardens around North African cities in the Ottoman period, without for as much indicating a marked divide with the medieval period.

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Pascal Cribier : itinéraires d’un jardinier by Marc JEANSON – Caen (France)

01/10/2026

Despite no early vocation in the field, Pascal Cribier (1953 – 2015) became one of the leading landscapers of his generation.

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Gustave Fayet et ses jardins imaginaires – Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (France)

From 03/01/2026 to 08/30/2026

This event is organised on the occasion of the centenary of Gustave Fayet’s passing (1865-1925).

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