We are extremely proud to announce that this year, the Dutch team have been awarded a garden at the 2025 International Garden Festival at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire.

For over 30 years now, the International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire has been a testing ground for contemporary creation in the field of gardens and landscape design on an international scale. The Festival encourages ideas and acts as an incubator for talent, breathing new life into the art of gardens by presenting new blooms, new materials, ideas and innovative approaches that appeal to both the general public and professionals. The diversity, creativity and sheer quality of projects have forged a global reputation for the Festival, which has become an unmissable event for a new generation of landscapers to present their work.

GARDEN DESCRIPTION

Forxcalibur is a garden that aims to showcase the power of community spirit. Where the power to change the world is within the hearts of every single person and not just within one singular hero.

The journey through this garden starts at an overgrown ruin where the fairytale begins. Nature has taken over and the walls are made of logs to create a variety of habitats.

As you venture further into the garden you are confronted by a variety of human interventions to create more habitat space from log piles and log stacks to cascading water. The pools themselves offer both a moment to reflect within the garden as well as creating vital habitat spaces and transition zones for nature and humanity to interact.

At the rear of the garden is a sculpture called Forxcalibur. A large gardening fork created from a variety of old gardening tools. This sculpture captures the essence of our garden, where every individual gardener and gardening tool can be part of a wider collective change.

As you walk through the remainder of the garden there are various places to pause, rest and reflect on your journey as well as spaces to enjoy the garden from new perspectives.

Throughout the garden you will find both traditional and innovative ways of incorporating habitat creation into a garden, as well as simple planting combinations of common easy to source plants along with some carefully selected specimens.