Guided tour around botany for 40 years of opening

Name: Rendez-vous aux jardins du château de Mongenan
Start: 2024-05-31T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardins du château de Mongenan

31 mai - 2 juinPassé

©château de Mongenan

Nicole Puisné, botanist and speaker of Savoirs et images en Graves de Montesquieu shows the ornamental garden, the pleasure garden, the utility garden, the rose garden of the vines, as well as the collection of herbaria of the eighteenth century including that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Free distribution of seeds and cuttings.

Types of events

Guided tour

2024 Theme

The five senses in the garden

I agree that the image may be freely used, provided that it is attributed to the author by name and shared under the same conditions.

Conditions for participation

Usual fare

Type of audience

General public

À propos du lieu

Jardins du château de Mongenan

16 rue de Mongenan, 33640 Portets

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The gardens of the castle of Mongenan are to the number of three (garden for ornament, garden of utility and garden for enjoyment(approval)), drawn in 1736 according to the precepts of Linné and seen again(revised) from 1741 according to conceptions(designs) of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music master(teacher) of the baron Antoine de Gascq who made build Mongenan. Gardens exactly kept(preserved) their spirit of the XVIIIth century. The visit of the garden cannot part from that of the museum which presents an important herbarium of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, important botanical collections and also explains symbolic value.
Area: 2 hectares.