Le Jardin des Nénuphars Latour-Marliac

About 30km north-east of Agen, Nénuphars Latour-Marliac Garden is located in the village of Temple/Lot, near the river which receives water from its basins. Labelled as a “Remarkable Garden”, it is also the oldest nursery of water lilies in the world and the site of the National Collection of Water lilies. It is open from May to October, for the full flowering period of its 250 rustic and tropical species.
The Latour-Marliac Water Lily Garden invites you to wander around a 2.5 ha park, from an exotic greenhouse which houses the Victoria giant water lily to a bamboo garden, from reservoirs surrounded by ponds to the Japanese bridge… It is possible to eat among the flowers in Marliacea Café and to buy plants on site, thinking of the painter Claude Monet who came here to find his water lilies in the late 19th century.