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Beautiful Loire Valley chateau gardens celebrate their patron saint

Famous château potagers specialise in the conservation and collection of old vegetable varieties and offer walks and tasting sessions

‘Tax on France’s vegetable gardens would be another Macron scandal’

If rumours of a ‘potager’ tax are true it would strike at the heart of French life, says journalist Nabila Ramdani

France’s finest chateaux gardens and parterres are magical in December

Without flowers the structural beauty shines through, so wrap up warm and visit these gardens from the Loire Valley to Versailles

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Tales from the Potager: Roger Higgs' story

In the second of our winning Tales from the Potager stories, an ideal home in Vendée came with an added extra that required just a little work

Tales from the Potager: Jackie Cawthray's story

From 20 square metres to 5,000 was quite the step-up for the novice potagistes when they moved from Yorkshire to the Gers - as we discover in the first of two winning entries to our Tales from the Potager competition

The French potager is 'so much more than a kitchen garden'

A brief history of the French potager by Michael Delahaye and how his wife's 20th century potager matched a long-forgotten one on the same site

Potager

Beautiful Loire Valley chateau gardens celebrate their patron saint

‘Tax on France’s vegetable gardens would be another Macron scandal’

France’s finest chateaux gardens and parterres are magical in December

Tales from the Potager: Roger Higgs' story

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