Discover Annie’s “Jardin Retiré”

A succession of different moods: from avenues to alcoves

When you arrive in this marvellous garden full of relaxing colours, you immediately feel its magic! We slowly make our way along the flower borders that lead us first to a “charming garden”, then a “boudoir garden” and on to an “English parterre”.

During our walk among the sixteen different areas of the Jardin Retiré we chance upon Annie, its wonderfully imaginative gardener and designer. She tells the story of her garden that she created twenty years ago when she was still a dance teacher. She had fallen under the spell of English gardens on a trip to Jersey. Self-taught, she works every day to create this romantic décor.

The ground here is the rock of the Armoricain Massif, so topsoil had to be brought in by hand. Little by little, the botanical garden was able to take shape in the middle of the ancient oaks. Some of these venerable mainstays of the landscape are as tall as 35 m!