2026 edition - The garden star of the show ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Gardens are places of memories, seasonality, presentation and emotion. Both real and symbolic, they provide a stage for taming, tidying and cultivating nature – without ever entirely controlling it. F... 11 Jul 2026
2025 edition - Once upon a time, in the garden ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS What if fairytales liberated us from the reality of a world that is often challenging, through imaginary narratives and fantastical scenery? What if they could also help us solve the perplexities of a... 11 Jul 2026
2024 edition - The life-source garden ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS There’s no doubt about it, the garden is a wonderful, condensed representation of the sheer powers of the living world. You could even go as far to say it is the ultimate living environment. At the co... 11 Jul 2026
2023 edition - Resilient garden ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Climate change and degradation of the living world – such are the new data now confronting the planet’s once temperate areas. These days, fragility, imbalance and uncertainty are our central concerns,... 11 Jul 2026
2022 edition - Ideal garden ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS THE INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL’S 30 TH BIRTHDAY After 30 years (1992-2022) of creations fostered by historical, poetic, educational and ecological themes alike, has the time not come to give though... 11 Jul 2026
2021 Edition - Biomimicry in the garden ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS What if, even in the garden, we redesigned everything from a perspective of mimicry and having the same shapes and structures everywhere? Understanding and imitating living systems and, in particular,... 11 Jul 2026
2020 edition - Return to Mother Earth ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS In Greek Antiquity, Mother Earth, Gaia, mother goddess personifying the fertile earth, giver of life, was universally revered, a deity comparable to the Hindu goddess Parvati… In the frenzy of globali... 11 Jul 2026
2018 Edition: Gardens of Thought ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Once again, the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire has a whole host of surprising, brand new experiences in store on the concept of thought, the theme of this 27 th edition, whose jur... 11 Jul 2026
2017 edition - Flower power - Le pouvoir des fleurs ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS In every age and civilisation since the dawn of time, in art and in literature, flowers real and figurative have played an essential role in the human imagination. There can be no-one who is unaware o... 11 Jul 2026
2016 edition - Gardens from the coming century ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Spanning a wide array of fields and central to the major challenges we face for our future, the garden today is an extraordinary place of deliberation, innovation and experimentation. Ecological resea... 11 Jul 2026
2015 edition - Extraordinary gardens, collector's gardens ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS This year the Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival is turning its attention to green heritage and the distinctive, creative spirit of plants, with the hope of thrilling visitors and giving... 11 Jul 2026
2014 edition - Gardens of the deadly sin ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS What if, entirely naturally, the garden led to unbridled hedonism – temptation born from a lost Eden, a thirst for knowledge and expense? A magical place which, to blossom, relies on the rule that sub... 11 Jul 2026
