Jardin Botanique de Vauville

France, France

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The Jardin Botanique de Vauville is a privately owned botanical garden of about 10 acres (4–4.5 hectares) near the village of Vauville on the Cotentin Peninsula in the Manche department of Normandy, France, set around the historic Château de Vauville.

Created starting in 1948 by the perfumer and sailor Éric Pellerin on a windswept coastal meadow just a few hundred meters from the Atlantic, it now displays more than 900–1,000 evergreen plant species from the Southern Hemisphere, protected inside a network of eucalyptus and bamboo windbreaks.

The garden is laid out as a series of “green rooms” and secluded glades, with collections of palms, aloes, dimorphotheca, echium, and other exotics that have acclimated to the mild Gulf‑Stream climate, making it feel like a subtropical oasis in northern latitudes.

It is open to the public in the warmer months for a modest admission fee, typically in the afternoons, and is recognized as a Remarkable Garden and a member of international botanical‑garden networks, prized for both its plant diversity and its romantic setting beside the old castle.