page_title: List of Remarkable Gardens of France
section_title: Var
hierarchical_section_title: List of Remarkable Gardens of France / Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur / Var
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the garden of the Castel Sainte-Claire, the home of Edith Wharton, Hyeres, France
context_page_description: The Remarkable Gardens of France is intended to be a list and description, by region, of the more than three hundred gardens classified as "Jardins remarquables" by the French Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France. The complete list of gardens can be found on: site of the Comité des Parcs et Jardins.
context_section_description: Domaine du Rayol in Le Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer
  Jardin d'Oiseaux Tropicaux in La Londe-les-Maures
  Parc du Moulin Blanc in Saint-Zacharie
  Jardin L'Hardy-Denonain in Gassin
  Le Plantier de Costebelle
  Domaine d'Orvès in La Valette-du-Var
  Domaine de Baudouvin in La Valette-du-Var. Formerly owned by Henri de Rothschild, then the residence of the Prefet Maritime, the domaine, recreated in 2008, is now a public park and a contemporary Provençal garden, featuring Provençal, tropical and Mediterranean trees and flowers, orchards, vineyards and kitchen gardens, a grand alley of plane trees. fountains and pools fed by a spring, a solar-powered "orchard" cooled by mist, and views of the mountains of the Var.
  Castel Sainte-Claire in Hyères.  The house, on the site of the 17th-century Convent of Sainte-Claire, was built by Olivier Voutier, a French naval officer who discovered the statue of the Venus de Milo in Greece, and later was the home of writer Edith Wharton, who planted much of the garden.
  Parc Saint-Bernard of the Villa Noailles in Hyères : 'The Parc Saint-Bernard was created by the vicomte de Noailles, a 20th-century art patron, next to his summer house, the Villa Noailles, (1923–1926), which was one of the first modernist houses in France.  The villa features a small triangular modern garden by Guevrekian.  The main garden, now a public park, is a series of tree-shaded terraces and paths overlooking the Mediterranean, devoted to the native plants of the Mediterranean, both common and rare, including a garden of rosemary and other aromatic plants.
  Parc Olbius Riquier in Hyères. A municipal park with a botanical garden, featuring bamboo, palms and a greenhouse with tropical birds and plants.
caption: Edith Wharton's Garden, Castel Sainte-Claire, Hyères
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