The Jardins Romantiques is the second garden in the Parc Botanique de Haute Bretagne and, as in 2015, I spent a lot of time in the Garden of the Rising Sun. But this year we walked through Le Bois Décisif and round the opposite side of the lake.

The Château de la Foltière dates back to at least the 18C and the garden was created in 1847. ‘Foltière’ is derived from ‘Fou’, old French meaning ‘beech tree’, and describes the countryside around the estate.