This is the "kitchen garden" at France's Villandry with the chateau in the background. Lebanon's Ann Coleman restored it to its Renaissance glory in the early 1900s. France's Chateau de Villandry is ...

The gardens. Rather than a park with lawns and woods, which most chateaux have, Villandry boasts an extraordinary arrangement of formal gardens based on medieval and Renaissance designs, with each ...

The vegetable garden of the Château de Villandry, with its 27,000 spring vegetables, is one of the stars of France's Loire Valley. For more than 20 years, it's been a UNESCO World Heritage site. The ...

(<<< Continued from previous page) But the garden is about more than straight lines. Henri's great-grandfather, Joachim (a Spanish doctor married to an American heiress who funded the purchase of the ...