The Octave Mirbeau Garden features a sprawling, tangled cluster of Japanese maples and wisteria that often obscures the paths inside. It occupies the site of the former fortifications of Paris, where the city once met the open fields of the countryside. Octave Mirbeau, the anarchist writer who lived nearby, spent his final years surrounded by the lush, unmanicured plants that inspired his darker literary descriptions of nature. He famously obsessed over his own flowers, sometimes spending his entire fortune on rare, difficult specimens.
Octave Mirbeau Garden
park garden