The Gardens of the Château de Villandry is best known, at least abroad, as France's archetypal potager, a kitchen garden elevated to a regal plain and Frenchified to the maximum, with its seemingly endless geometric parterres edged in immaculately clipped boxwood.
In fact, the potager forms only part of what in fact is a painstaking and loving restoration of the gardens of a Renaissance château, fraught with romantic symbolism and amenities--or agréments, as the French would call them, features designed for pure pleasure.
The potager, for example, is punctuated with numerous latticework gloriettes, or gazebos, whose curved form provide great intimacy to those within as they gaze upon the softly splashing fountain before them.
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