THE LORIOT GARDENS

Les Jardins du Loriot: your Oriental Odyssey in the heart of Vendée

The Loriot Gardens are open:
- in July and August every day in the afternoon (except Monday) without reservation.
- in May, June and September: Sunday afternoons.
- in off-season, the gardens are open by appointment. Please contact us by phone or email to book your visit. Then go to the secondary entrance, 34 chemin du Petit Champ du Pont, La Mancelière, Venansault.
- exceptional opening during meetings in the gardens and for European Heritage Days.

At the reception, souvenir shop and sale of plants (non-marking bamboo and collectible bamboo). Many benches installed in the shade (40% of the park is shaded). Find the routes, games and adventures of the explorers on the Jardins du Loriot website thanks to the QRCode signage located all along the walking paths. Visitor's guide given to each family.

Come and discover the charms of Asia in a course of 34 stages marking out this 5 hectare park in harmony with unspoiled nature, located around a one hectare pond.

Family, natural and ecological park of "Anglo-Chinese" style. The two creators are accompanied by two gardeners throughout the year. Lovers of flowers and plants from all over the world will be able to admire, along the way, more than 2500 varieties of plants from here and elsewhere (lotus, water lilies, bamboo, hydrangeas, roses, fuchsias, camellias... shrubs and rare trees) . So many invitations to travel and reverie. Japan, Burma, China, Tibet, Java, Bali... are the worlds to discover.

Children and adults are invited to "The Forest of Princess Moon" to solve the 36 puzzles of the "Tale of the Old Bamboo Cutter". Japan is also honored at the belvedere where the famous Japanese "koi nobori" carp float in the wind during certain events. Your Burmese astral sign is at the "Celestial Kiosk" overlooking a rose garden, the orchard, the square gardens and the vegetable patch. 10 ponds of water lilies and lotuses evoke the friendship between Georges Clemenceau and Claude Monet. Near the Chemin du Dragon, permanent exhibition on the journey of G. Clemenceau, at the age of 80, to Ceylon, Java, Bali and Burma...

Explore the worlds of Java, Bali and Burma. In the Java garden, 4 replicas of the openwork stupas of Borobudur protect a large reclining Buddha. Bali: Around a Lotus basin, the goddess Tara dominates a scene of Ganesh, the most popular deity in India and Indonesia: he dances, plays music, reads poems and protects children. The lesser known world of Burma will delight you. An alley lined with small temples dedicated to protective spirits leads to the Golden Pagoda which houses a large marble Buddha overlooking an octagonal basin. Also go to Place des Ogres to discover another small temple in Mandalay and the refreshment area open on certain days in the summer.

• Average duration of the individual visit: 2 hours
• Average duration of the group visit: 1h30
• Group reception from 15 person (s).
• Possibility of having a group guided tour
• Possibility of having a group guided tour on request
• Self-guided group tour
• Individual free visit
• Educational visit

Visit languages

• Français
• German

Payment method

• French bank and postal checks
• Cash

Services

• Shop

Activities on site

• Specific thematic animation
• Conferences
• Temporary exhibitions