Vendée's majestic Domaine de La Chabotterie will be the setting for the thirteenth Floralies Internationales Festival from 17-26 May 2024, an event held every five years that brings together the very best floral and plant creativity in a series of artistic presentations.
Not far from Nantes, just a few kilometres from La Roche-sur-Yon, the Domaine is a former Vendée War site and its buildings typical of 14th-century Poitevin architecture. Its enchanting grounds, orchards and wooded avenues provide the perfect setting for the 2024 festival's 'Jeux de Fleurs' ('Game of Flowers') theme, a nod to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The 'games' will feature under five categories: water games, highlighting wetland and aquatic plants; childhood games, a carefree space of nostalgia with strong colours and scents; intellectual games, using puzzles and riddles among unusual species; garden games, playing with contrasts, illusions and perspectives; and physical games, encouraging the spirit of competition and self-transcendence with bold and graphic plants.
Over 200 exhibitors from all over France and the four corners of the world – landscape gardeners, designers, florists and stylists – will be showcasing their creativity and expertise.
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