Louis Benech

[3] In 1982 he interrupted his law studies and becomes a horticultural worker in Southampton, England at Hillier Nurseries[6][7] and worked there for a year and a half.

[7][1] Benech's first major commission was near the village of Cernay, Eure-et-Loir for the gardens of Château du Bois Hinoust, which had recently been purchased by Stanislas and Leticia Poniatowski.

[1][7] The work at the Tuileries Garden in Paris launched Benech into a national and international career which made him one of the world's most prominent landscape designers.

[6][10] The Tuileries project spread over ten years and brought recognition with multiple requests from wealthy garden owners.

[14] Some of the other many already established gardens, that Benech has worked on include the Quai d'Orsay, the estate of Courson, the quadrilateral (main square) of France's National Archives,[15][16] and the Hauteville House.

[5] His projects for individuals lead him to work in France and abroad[7] (in Greece, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland, Egypt, Panama, Canada, United States, and New Zealand's Chatham Islands).

[24] With an eclectic style,[7] the creations of Louis Benech are characterized by his concern to harmonize the landscape with the architectural or natural environment of the site, to create perennial gardens (with necessary ecological considerations), and to combine plant aesthetics with the local ecosystem, the use that will be made of the garden, and the technical constraints of maintenance.

[7] An uncle of the novelist and journalist Clément Bénech,[25] Louis Benech had a father who worked as an architect,[7] a mother who loved flowers, and two grandmothers who enjoyed gardening.