Majorelle Garden

What it is

The French painter Jacques Majorelle began this garden in Marrakesh in the 1920s and worked on it for decades. He painted his studio and the garden walls in a vivid blue that now carries his name. After his death the garden declined, until the designer Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge bought and restored it in 1980. It is a small, dense place: tall cacti and agaves, groves of bamboo, palms, pots in yellow and orange, pools of water lilies and lotus, and bougainvillea climbing over pergolas. The former studio houses a museum of Amazigh (Berber) culture.

Before you go

• Book a timed ticket in advance and choose the first slot of the day.
• It is small. An hour is enough for the garden itself.
• Spring is pleasant. Summer afternoons are very hot.

The flowers you will see

WaterlilyFloating aquatic flowers found in ponds and lakes worldwideSacred lotusThe pink aquatic flower sacred in Asia and grown for food, worship and beautyPrickly pearCactus with flat pads and edible fruit, native to the Americas

Also part of it, and being written: Bougainvillea.

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Majorelle GardenA vibrant artist’s garden and museum complex in Marrakech, Morocco

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