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Designers are invited to design a garden that can take place in one of the axes of the Festival. The artistic and technical committees of the Festival will identify, in collaboration with the designers, the site that will best showcase their project. Designers will be asked to imagine their garden for exhibition for at least two summers, and to propose strategies for the repurposing or recycling of the garden or its materials after the end of its exhibition.
Deadline to submit proposals
The deadline to submit proposals electronically is MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2025, at 17:00 EST.
Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.
Artistic Direction
Ève De Garie-Lamanque
Submission guidelines and registration details are available here.
International Garden Festival – Forum for Innovation and Laboratory for Experimentation
Created at the turn of the new millennium by Marie-Josée Lacroix, Denis Lemieux, Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, and Alexander Reford, the International Garden Festival is recognized as one of the most important contemporary garden festivals in North America. Since its inception, more than 180 contemporary gardens have been exhibited at Grand-Métis, and as extramural projects in Canada and around the world. Presented at Les Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens, at the gateway to the Gaspé Peninsula, the Festival is held on a site adjacent to the historic gardens created by Elsie Reford, thereby establishing a bridge between history and modernity, and a dialogue between conservation, tradition, and innovation. Each year the Festival exhibits over 20 conceptual gardens created by more than 70 landscape architects, architects, and designers from various disciplines.
Les Jardins de Métis | Reford Gardens are located on the shores of the St. Lawrence and Mitis rivers in Quebec, Canada. Created from 1926 to 1958 by avid gardener and plant collector, Elsie Reford, the gardens are designated as a national historic site. Les Jardins de Métis are considered one of the premier gardens in North America.
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