Jardins secrets de Vaulx, Garden collection in Vaulx, France

Jardins Secrets de Vaulx is a garden of about twenty indoor and outdoor spaces laid out on a former farm property in Vaulx, Haute-Savoie. The photograph shows a terraced complex of reddish-orange stone and brick on a central axis: stone steps and pedestals with round planters and bud-shaped finials, a small tiered fountain, curved low walls with pointed finials, and a two-storey gallery with open arches below and small windows under a ridged tiled roof with spires, flanked by taller pavilions with steep pyramidal roofs.

The site was originally an old farm that Nicole and Alain Moumen purchased in 1980 and transformed together with their three daughters. The location opened to visitors in 1994.

The gardens are laid out as a mosaic of around twenty small baroque gardens with varied inspirations, created from 1980 by Nicole and Alain Moumen using old traditional techniques. Nicole Moumen wrote the family story in books published in 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2023, and the site has received the Jardin Remarquable label.

The gardens lie at Vaulx, between Rumilly and Annecy in Haute-Savoie, and have been open to the public since 1994. Around twenty indoor and outdoor spaces follow one another along a single route, so allow time to pass through them in order. The site is a private property created by the Moumen family, and the visit is made on foot.

The gardens hold around twenty indoor and outdoor spaces, and the family's story is told in four books, the first published by Nicole Moumen in 2004 with Éditions Milan. The site marked 30 years of public opening in 2024, having first welcomed visitors in 1994.