Le Potager du Roi
Le Potager du Roi
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JClare62
Maleny, Australia117 contributions
Jul 2017 • Couples
Wonderful tranquility and naturalness compared to the palace gardens 10 minutes walk apart. The palace gardens were crowded with people when there were barely 20 at the potager. The kitchen gardens are maintained using permaculture and organic practices and there were lots of insects and birds about which was just lovely. However I have to agree with other posters and wonder if the garden is being maintained to its full potential. The entry, shop, signage, interpretation and toilets could all be improved at low cost with a bit of imagination from the landscape architecture students. That said, I would visit it any day in preference to the palace gardens (which also appeared to be suffering from lack of maintenance- the trees in the orangery were all struggling). There is plenty to interest a keen kitchen gardener or social historian.
Written 14 July 2017
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Rod H
Melbourne, Australia306 contributions
Jun 2018 • Business
Although I visited in summer when most of the fruit trees were well in leaf, this would be a spectacular sight in blossom with row upon row of espaliered fruit trees. It is part of the horticultural college and interesting if you are into gardens. Even in summer, there is enough flowering interest to make it a worthwhile visit.
Written 25 June 2018
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bee438
Stockholm, Sweden60 contributions
Mar 2018
If you are into gardening and is going to Versailles anyway check out the kitchen garden of the King. The garden contains hundreds upon hundreds of clipped and espaliered fruit trees. We went in March and were the only two visitors in the garden. There was not very much going on in the garden at this time of year except the structure of all the fruit trees and we saw some great magnolias in bloom. I suspect they will have more activities going on in the garden in summer, Quite impressive the work that have gone into the fruit trees over the years.
Written 8 April 2018
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Grégoire S
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Jun 2024 • Friends
To avoid, I'm not used to comments but here I feel obliged. It's a shame, we paid 8€ to see a very poorly maintained "vegetable garden", nothing to do with the photos on their site, grass around not mowed, 2 chickens who ate the tomato plants planted by children of a school, nothing to see, run away
A real scam.
A real scam.
Written 17 June 2024
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robertalan2016
Newton, MA90 contributions
Oct 2017 • Friends
This was the kitchen garden of Louis XIV and later French kings. If you are a gardener, don't miss it, but this is not what you should do on your first visit to Versailles. We were there in early October. The line to enter the main palace was an hour long, but we had been there several times over the last forty years. There was no waiting to enter the Potager du Roi. The focus is on pruning techniques. The entrance is obscure so ask for directions at the main entrance to the palace.
Written 6 December 2017
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jennib3889
London, United Kingdom59 contributions
Oct 2012 • Friends
We had a guided tour which was excellent and the shop with the vegetables was great. A huge site with many varieties of fruits and the the poultry area built by the students at the nearby Ecole De Horticulture was cute
Written 12 October 2012
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Seasondtraveller
Paris4,354 contributions
Aug 2021
This garden is essentially just across from the Orangerie, and next to the Pièce d'eau des Suisses. The visit is not that exciting and could have been enhanced by some more historical explanations.
Written 12 August 2021
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artnik
Brooklyn, NY351 contributions
Oct 2017 • Solo
The Potager was originally planted in order for Louis XIV to supply food for his own table. It also became a laboratory and showplace for advanced horticultural study and development (they grew Pineapples! In Paris!) which it remains to this day. A school of agriculture is on premises and the Potager is incorporated into their studies. There is a charming shop that sells products made with ingredients from the garden. If you want to get away from the glitz of the Palace and formal gardens, this is where to go to look and think about what some of the behind-the-scenes life at the Palace was about.
Written 1 November 2017
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Graham H
London, England, United Kingdom2 contributions
Jun 2017 • Couples
I visited this royal vegetable plot around 20 years ago and my memory was that it was AMAZINGLY beautiful. Well what a decline, everywhere there is an atmosphere of abandon and messiness. We peered into one green house only to see a load of dead plants and someones washing hanging up to dry.
There are weeds everywhere, dead fruit trees, or un trimmed espaliered trees, it the guide they say there are 9 full time gardeners, we could only imagine that they spend most of their time chilling in the sun having bbqs
I had taken my mother telling her how beautiful it was and really worth a visit. As we are only in Paris for 3 days we feel we have waisted one of them.
So disappointing when i think what is was once like
Jean Baptiste de La Quitaine who created it in 1678 must be turning in his grave !
There are weeds everywhere, dead fruit trees, or un trimmed espaliered trees, it the guide they say there are 9 full time gardeners, we could only imagine that they spend most of their time chilling in the sun having bbqs
I had taken my mother telling her how beautiful it was and really worth a visit. As we are only in Paris for 3 days we feel we have waisted one of them.
So disappointing when i think what is was once like
Jean Baptiste de La Quitaine who created it in 1678 must be turning in his grave !
Written 11 June 2017
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Lorraine2362
Belfast, UK16 contributions
Sept 2016 • Couples
Having visited many walled kitchen gardens throughout Europe, we were very disappointed and indeed saddened to see what was once a highly productive kitchen garden providing fresh fruit, herbs and vegetables for Le Roi and his courtiers fall into such a state of neglect with unplanted potager squares full of perennial weeds It’s such a shame considering the standards achieved at the nearby gardens of Versailles. Perhaps funding is an issue - but with 200 landscape architecture students, 350 continuing education students and 9 gardeners, I really think that this special garden deserves more professional input.It could be spectacular.
Written 26 September 2016
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Are reservations necessary for a visit? And is there an English option for the website (I cant find one)? Thanks
Written 21 August 2019
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