Jardin Jeanne d'Arc / Joan of Arc Garden

In 1937, an American couple donated an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc as a lasting tribute to the valour and courage of the heroes of 1759-1760, inspiring the idea for the Joan of Arc Garden. An initial design with four majestic entrances and two large reflecting pools was abandoned because of the war, and a more modest but magnificent garden was created instead in 1938 by landscape architect Louis Perron, brother of W. H. Perron. In the heart of Quebec City on the Plains of Abraham, this rectangular sunken garden, not included in the original plan for Battlefields Park, blends classic French garden geometry, including straight paths, rows of elms, and facing entrances, with the abundant, naturalistic mixed borders of the English tradition. Perron, the first Quebec native to graduate from a landscape architectural design school, created a garden of more than 150 species, almost entirely perennials with annuals and bulbs, flowering from April to October. A row of stately American elms surrounds the garden, and Dutch elm disease has been controlled in the park through a disease control program.

Quebec · Canada