Located just few miles from Geneva, the Garden of Five Senses enjoys a privileged place : on the French shores of Lake Geneva, in the heart of the medieval village of Yvoire, member of the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of France.

In the 80s, the creators of this garden wanted to upgrade the castle former kitchen garden to create the atmosphere of medieval mazes.

The aim being not to find the way out but to choose your own way, as in life… And curiously, the family motto is Festina Lente - Make haste slowly, the same as the gardener’s patron saint !

For 25 years, gardeners have looked after more than 1,300 varieties of plants with passion and love.

In 2004, the garden was Classified as a "Remarkable Garden" by the French Ministry of Culture.

The garden is organised into many separate themed gardens.

- An Alpine garden devoted to mountains: gentians,dwarf thistle,colt’s-foot …

- A small woodland garden with a ferns collection and some shade plants.

- The Woven garden where white and fragrant roses contrast with simple oats in a checkerboard pattern.

- A cloister surrounded by a hornbean hedge contains four square herb gardens growing both medicinal and toxic herbs, and a small fountain.

- The other five gardens : have been planted to stimulate each of the senses. 

Visitors can smell perfumed flowers or surprisingly fragrant leaves, touch some particular foliage (soft, velvety, rough, prickly, sticky…), contemplate, hear birds and finally they can see fruits and vegetables in the garden of taste and imagine the flavours.

- A garden of poetry and dream.