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The potager, or traditional French kitchen garden, brings together vegetables, fruits, and flowers. At Normandy’s Château de Miromesnil, which was built between 1590 and 1600, the organic potager includes more than seventy different vegetables and fruit trees, and owner Nathalie Romatet—seen here in front of her château—will have enough produce to feed the guests in her bed-and-breakfast from June to October. Romatet’s grandmother purchased the estate in 1938 to raise and feed her eight children and twenty staff. She added flower borders around the vegetable plots to bring joyful color to the garden after the dark days of World War II. Château de Miromesnil was the birthplace of Guy de Maupassant, France’s master of the short story, who was born in the castle in 1850 and set many of his stories in the Norman countryside.

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The potager, or traditional French kitchen garden, brings together vegetables, fruits, and flowers. At Normandy’s Château de Miromesnil, which was built between 1590 and 1600, the organic potager includes more than seventy different vegetables and fruit trees, and owner Nathalie Romatet—seen here in front of her château—will have enough produce to feed the guests in her bed-and-breakfast from June to October. Romatet’s grandmother purchased the estate in 1938 to raise and feed her eight children and twenty staff. She added flower borders around the vegetable plots to bring joyful color to the garden after the dark days of World War II. Château de Miromesnil was the birthplace of Guy de Maupassant, France’s master of the short story, who was born in the castle in 1850 and set many of his stories in the Norman countryside.

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