Artist painter of plants
Who hasn’t heard of the famous Hungarian water, perfume, made with rosemary, rose water and orange blossom? This recipe for beauty and health would have enabled Queen Isabella of Hungary to regain at the age of 72, strength and beauty. So much so that the King of Poland would have asked her to marry him. Even if it is a legend created by perfumers from Montpellier, the revitalizing virtues of rosemary have indeed been confirmed. Continue reading “Rosemary, the elixir of youth”
Garden sketchbook workshops on Saturday June 4th and Sunday June 5th.
Workshop fee included in the garden entrance ticket, drawing materials included.
Practical information
Adults: 9 € per person
Children from 5 to 18 years old: 6 €.
Students, job seekers, adults with disabilities, RHS: 7 €.
Family package 2 adults and 2 children: from 26 €.
For less affluence prefer Saturday.
Catering and refreshments on site – Please reserve at 02 47 95 77 47
www.chateaudurivau.com
9, rue du Château – 37120 Lémeré
The Jardins du Rivau is a paradise for roses, with its collection of more than 475 varieties of fragrant roses, labelled CCVS*.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
as part of the 48 hours of urban agriculture.
The nomadic workshop lasts 1h30 with light but quality material.
The workshop is limited to 10 participants and must be booked in advance:
raphaele-bb @ wanadoo.fr
Rate of the workshop 30 €
with a participation for the organizing association Le Jardin d’Amélie
https://lejardindamelie.wixsite.com/lejardindamelie
15 Rue Porto Riche
92190 Meudon
Price: 30€ for the workshop
Minimum age: 15 years old
At 10.30am and 3pm
Spring is going to be colorful and pastel is in the spotlight.
Easter vacations, from April 9 to May 9, 2022
Opening on Saturday, April 16 from 6 pm.
Gallery La Boucherie, 7 rue des Préaux, 35800 Saint-Briac
The gallery is open every day from 10:30 am to 1 pm and from 4:30 pm to 7 pm except on Monday afternoon.
“Raphaèle BERNARD-BACOT returns to the gallery La Boucherie for a solo exhibition with about thirty pastels. Passionate about vegetable gardens, small plots of land patiently cultivated, she picks, with the tip of her pastels, the fruits and vegetables she finds there and makes them dance on the paper.
She works on the ground, meets the gardeners and keeps track of her encounters in numerous sketchbooks.
One of them is the subject of a book published by Rue de l’Echiquier “City Gardeners, Portraits Sketched On The Spot” (Jardiniers des villes, portraits croqués sur le vif) which she will sign on the evening of the opening.
Let’s go for a new season of gardening !
Among the first seeds of the season, it always begins with the lettuce in order to get them green and crisp in the springtime. There are more than four hundred varieties in the official catalogue. What a performance vegetable creators ! Continue reading “Lettuce delicious, who are you ?”
The 2nd Salon des auteurs clodoaldiens will be held on Saturday, March 19, 2022 from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm at Le Carré, 3 bis, rue d’Orléans in Saint-Cloud.
The originality of this salon is it was created by an author and his collective, who then contacted the town of Saint-Cloud and not the other way round!
It is an opportunity to sign my book on city gardeners.
And also a lot of meetings, workshops and competitions in perspective with the public and the 39 other authors.
How can you imagine that the endives, so pale with their leaves barely edged with yellow, have one day become as green as lettuce? And yet, in a first life, they looked like big dandelions, growing in broad daylight in spring and summer. The chlorophyll gave them their green and crunchy appearance like any salad. This is also the only period of their life when the sun is necessary for them. Then it’s the other way around. The less light, the better the endives. Continue reading “From garden to cellar”
Who remembers the date on which ingenious gardeners from Saint Gilles, near Brussels, obtained this new cabbage hybrid ? Small, of course, but very tough. They offer the advantage of not fearing frost and can withstand minus fifteen degrees Celsius. They even gain in flavor in the heart of winter, because their taste is all the sweeter. Continue reading “The sturdy little ones of Brussels”
Nature Sketchbook Workshops
March 3rd, 4th and 5th 2022
at the ponds of Ville-d’Avray
Meeting point at the Colombier, place Charles-de-Gaulle, 92410 Ville d’Avray
Tel. +33 1 47 50 37 50
Access Paris Saint-Lazare: Line L towards Versailles Rive-Droite, stop Sèvres-Ville d’Avray
From Pont de Sèvres: bus 426, stop Eglise de Ville d’Avray
Registration on the website frenchpleinairpainters.com
“Fruits of the earth and the work of men and… women”
from 2 February to 11 March 2022
at the Notre-Dame-de-Pentecôte church on the parvis de La Défense next to the CNIT.
Opening on Wednesday 2 February at 1pm
Open Monday to Friday from 8am to 2.30pm and every Wednesday from 8am to 7pm
Bookshop
During opening hours, a wide choice of books is available on site, with around 600 titles available: current publications and works by lecturers are available alongside fundamental works. Particular attention is paid to the business world and to social and topical issues. Copies of my latest book City Gardeners, Portraits Sketched On The Spot (Jardiniers des villes, portraits croqués sur le vif) published in June 2020 by Éditions Rue de l’Échiquier will be on the shelves.