"See you at the vegetable garden"

Name: "Rendez-vous au potager"
Start: 2022-09-18T15:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Château de Valmer

On the occasion of these European Heritage Days on the theme of Sustainable Heritage, Guillaume, head gardener of the castle, will share with you his know-how and his profession.

Dimanche 18 septembre 2022, 15h30Passé

It was by working in the King’s vegetable garden at Versailles that he understood that gardening would be his profession.
On one hectare, the conservatory garden with its classic 15th century design, houses a checkerboard of colors, flavors, edible plants and flowers to taste.
Management of water resources, new modes of cultivation, companion plants, promotion of biodiversity... The Château de Valmer aims to promote all its values for more than 20 years in its conservatory garden combining aromas, fruit trees, edible flowers, vegetables forgotten from here and elsewhere ...
In the form of an exchange, this walk will be an opportunity to learn some techniques used in gardens.
A playful discovery: listening to the gardener who transmits knowledge and who, of course, adds his own!

À propos du lieu

Château de Valmer

Valmer 37210 Chançay

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

The hanging gardens of Valmer were created in the sixteenth century around a castle of the Renaissance, then embellished in the seventeenth century when Thomas Bonneau, councilman of Louis XIII, settled there and had built the High Terrace. The castle was destroyed by fire in 1948, but the magnificent gardens remain a setting for the Petit-Valmer, the rare troglodytic chapel and the 17th century communes. The owners are now dedicated to the restoration and beautification of this complex. Two main axes structure an exceptional set of terraces that follow the slope of the hill on eight levels and more than thirty meters of elevation. For more than 10 years, the conservatory garden has made the reputation of the gardens of Valmer. In 2014 a new adventure begins: the installation of an ampelographic collection (old grape varieties and table grapes). The Park keeps intact the beautiful perspectives of the seventeenth century, with columns, a gazebo with three arcades and the pavilion of the