“Chaumont has developed a world-wide reputation for showing the cutting-edge of new landscape design and outdoor sculpture, and the year I visited was no exception.
The theme was “the joy of biodiversity” (or at least I think that’s what it meant in French!), and the competition gardens ran the gamut, from the frightening (that’s what happens when you think about a word like “biodiversity”) right through to the sublime.
Almost all of the gardens really made you think. And the best of them were really beautiful as well.”