So is this the garden of the future? Eve Kelliher visits Les Jardins d'Etretat in France

Eve Kelliher makes the French connection by visiting a unique outdoor sculpture exhibition in Normandy.

The closest a (not insignificant) number of us come to gardening at this time of year is dodging those whiffs of freshly mown grass. (Unless of course we actually want to immerse ourselves in residual associations with looming exams.) But an experimental showpiece in France turns the traditional “lawn, flowerbed and shrubbery” concept on its head.