Opposite the Trophy Room, the vegetable garden is a colourful garden with a contemporary design. Its flowerbeds offer a multicoloured vision where countless flowers mingle with seasonal vegetables — many of which are later served in the Orangerie tearoom.

Water plays a central role: a fountain stands at the heart of the garden, an aquaponics system uses fish waste to nourish the plants, and in summer, a misting system transforms the pergola into a suspended garden of multicoloured orchids.

This is also the château’s bouquet garden: its flowers are used to create the large arrangements that decorate the château’s rooms throughout the year.

Created in 2006 as part of a rehabilitation project, this ornamental garden occupies the former site of a long-lost French formal garden, whose original plans still exist.

Today, it is both classical — with its geometric layout and French-style parterres — and English, thanks to the perspective it opens onto the park.

Located between the château and the Orangery, it offers magnificent views of the North façade, restored between 2017 and 2020. Numerous benches invite visitors to enjoy the pergola, which in spring and summer is draped with white and mauve wisteria.

The fountain, in the perspective of the façade, features giant poppies, artworks by Alexis Boyer.

The name of the garden pays tribute to the ten young people who participated in its creation.

After this romantic stroll, a gourmet break awaits you at the Café de l'Orangerie.

Six monumental bronze sculptures stand in the castle grounds, created by Swedish sculptor Gudmar Olovson. The Garden of Love is a tribute to life, love, of course, and family.

Gudmar Olovson (1936–2017) lived and worked in Paris from 1959 until his death and was one of the great independent sculptors of his generation. The central themes of his sculptural work are love, couples, the poetry of forms, and beauty.

One of the artist's most renowned monumental works, "Les Deux Arbres" (The Two Trees), can also be admired in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, in the gardens of Château Petrus and in the open-air museum in Falsterbo, Sweden.

Gudmar Olovson was also a renowned portrait artist and was commissioned to create busts of Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Jacques Chirac, Pope John Paul II, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, actress Ingrid Bergman, Philippe de Rothschild and many others.

Gudmar Olovson was a close friend of Charles-Antoine and Constance de Vibraye, whose bust is on display at the castle.

To learn more about Gudmar Olovson's work and life: www.gudmar.net

500,000 Triumph tulip bulbs are planted by our team of gardeners and reinforcements in the autumn to create a double ribbon of tulips.

Flowering takes place in April: tulips spring up from the pond, winding and criss-crossing through the park, which is 250 metres long and 12 metres wide!

Elsewhere on the estate, another 100,000 tulips brighten up the apprentices' garden and the vegetable garden. In total, 600,000 tulips take over Cheverny to celebrate the beginning of spring with an explosion of colour.

Tulips usually bloom in early April.

For more information: the tulip ribbon.

During the second lockdown in November 2020, Le Jardin Sucré was born.

Named "Jardin sucré" (Sweet Garden), this French-style orchard has 370 trees and shrubs. It covers a circular area of one hectare, near the Jardin des Apprentis (Apprentices' Garden) and the maze. It features apple trees, quince trees, cherry trees, persimmon trees, fig trees and many more!

Benches at the centre offer views of the fountain and the château.

Located along the path between the North façade of the château and the 18th-century Orangery, it is the perfect link to the sweet treats you can enjoy in the tea room, located in the Orangery.

Whether you take your time exploring every path or try to find the exit as quickly as possible, the maze delights visitors of all ages.

On France 3's programme La Carte aux Trésors, contestants only had 2 minutes 30 seconds to get out!

The maze is made up of Caucasian laurels, planted in 2009. This fast-growing species is perfect for creating dense hedges.

The first maze gardens appeared in the 15^th century and their popularity grew until the end of the 17^th century. The most famous example was the maze at the Château de Versailles, which no longer exists today. At that time, symbolism was important and, in a French-style garden, the maze expressed order and the domestication of nature.