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Welcome to the Web Site of Reford Gardens and the International Garden Festival. Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens invite you to explore the gardens and its many attractions. Our new web site has been created to provide you with all the information you need. Whether you are just looking for dates and rates, seeking to learn more about this national historic site or trying to replicate Elsie Reford’s success with the magical and mysterious blue poppy, or wishing to view the more than 100 gardens presented by the International Garden Festival, this web site has a great deal of information and some stunning images. We have done our best to provide you with a flavor of this special place. We hope that you will explore this site – or better yet – make the visit to Grand-Métis to visit the Gardens for yourself.

The Latest Glog | The biggest edition of the Festival!
The Glog (Garden Log) is written by Alexander Reford, Director of Les Jardins de Métis and great-grandson of Elsie Reford, founder of the gardens.
 

The 10th edition of the International Garden Festival is now open and is receiving its first visitors. From June 20 to 26, the Festival site was the venue of frenetic activity to ready the Festival gardens for the opening. More than 250 designers and guests attended the inauguration – celebrating with us what is the biggest edition of the Festival we have ever presented  with more gardens and more designers than ever before.

Our team of 14 workers under the supervision of artistic director Emmanuelle Vieira, technical co-ordinator François Leblanc and assistant director Jean-Yves Roy worked tirelessly to complete the gardens with the assistance of a ten volunteers from the Mont-Joli Katimavik group and volunteers like Elise Laverdure, Sylvain Legris and many others who pitched in. Georges Labrecque and Angela Grauerholz of the Centre de design UQAM created a marvelous exhibition, Cultiver son jardin / Minding the Garden – Phase 1, on the first 10 years of the Festival under the tent, transforming the detritus of the 80 or more gardens presented over the past decade into museum objects that evoke past creations.



Over the coming weeks, new photographs and information will be added to our web site, allowing you to follow the progress of each garden. Or best of all, visit once or often and see them for yourselves.


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