Free discovery of a remarkable garden and entertainment

Name: Free discovery of a remarkable garden and entertainment
Start: 2021-06-05T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-06-06T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Les jardins suspendus de Cohons

Free tour all day, guided tours from 14:30 to 18:00 and workshops

5 and 6 June 2021Passed

Conditions

€7 per person including visit, show, concert, workshops (except dry stone)

Registration

06 78 26 94 24 contact@jardin-cohons.fr

Sylvie Baudot

Saturday:
Workshops "Initiation à la construction en pierre sèche", from 9h to 17h (from 16 years), to learn the good gestures of an ancestral know-how that has shaped our rural landscapes, and restore a fence wall.
Workshop "Manual mowing" (9:30 am to 2:30 pm) for an alternative to the mower and brush cutter. The fake, a simple tool to use, economical, silent, totally ecological to use after stretching and explanations to the good gestures necessary for this practice… sports.
Workshops "Grafting" (10h30 à 12h) and "Pruning" (15h à 17h)
Sunday:
Workshops "Initiation à la construction de la pierre sèche" (9h à 17h), "Greffage" (10h30 à 12h) and "Taille" (15h à 17h)
Show «Lulu’s Garden» by the Preface Company at 5pm.
Guided tours at 14:30 and 16:30 on Saturday and Sunday and Open Tour. price: 7 € per person including visit, show, musical service (subject), workshops (except workshop "dry stone": price on request).
Free under 12 years.
Workshop registration required by June 2, limited spaces, contact contact@jardin-cohons.fr

About the location

Les jardins suspendus de Cohons

Route de Bourg 52600 Cohons

Haute-Marne
Grand Est

This vast complex includes the Clos de la Roche, its terraced garden created in the second half of the eighteenth century and the Escargots de Pierre park traced from 1808\. In Le Clos, the supports of the food terraces are remarkable dry stone works sometimes 6 m high which accommodate trained fruit trees tracing the art of espaliérage over the centuries. A white fruit orchard and a conservatory vineyard occupy other terraces while two majestic cedars of Lebanon planted around 1828 shade the Pavilion of billiards. The picturesque park of the Stone Snails has two structures of this type whose dry stone masonry reaches 5 m in height. Other factories adorn the estate: a gutted tower, a vineyard cadole, a kiosk, a pierced Roche staircase, a deer hut, caves, a Clos snail…