 The garden was established by Jean-Pierre Gueguen in 1981.Today it contains about 3500 plant varieties, with good collections of camellias (550 varieties), rhododendrons (400), magnolias (85), azaleas (80), and hortensias (60).Plantings of interest include "Acer trautvetteri", "Camellia caudata", "Cleyera japonica", "Corylus jacquemontii", "Distylium racemosum", "Embothrium coccineum", "Enkianthus perulatus", "Magnolia rostrata", and "Rhododendron campylocarpum", as well as an aquatic garden ().