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31 May - 2 JunePassed
Conditions
Free or preferential rates depending on the activities. On registration.
May 2024
Friday 31
18:00 - 20:00
June 2024
Saturday 1
09:00 - 19:00
Sunday 2
09:00 - 19:00

Maison de la figue & Verger conservatoire

30360 Vézénobres
  • Gard
  • Occitanie

The orchard in celebration! Guided tours, pastel workshops, cooking classes, projections, conference, listening to the orchard...

The orchard in celebration! The five senses in the garden ...
31 May - 2 JunePassed
Conditions
Free or preferential rates depending on the activities. On registration.
©Service-tourisme-Ales-Agglomération

The orchard in celebration! The five senses in the garden ...
Guided tour of the conservatory orchard: A sensory exploration in the heart of the orchard.

  • Smell: smell the delicate scent of fig trees
  • Taste: taste the fruity flavour of a fig coffee
  • Touch: touch the subtle veins of the leaf
  • View: Contemplate the green hues of the orchard
  • Ouie: Listen to the orchard with the murmur of the wind in the leaves. Saturday and Sunday | departure 9am | 11am | Verger conservatoire
    The Touch:
    Workshops «From plant to pastel». Manufacture of dry pastels from vegetable pigments. Discover recipes and gestures to create your own art material from nature. Saturday and Sunday | 14h | 15h | 16h | from 6 years old.
    Demonstrations of plant dyes and plant pigments. The history of plants, the secrets of these plants with unique coloring properties. Saturday and Sunday | 14h30 | 15h30 | 16h30 | free.
    Taste:
    Cooking class «Wild plants and edible flowers». Learn to associate them with local products for an unusual culinary and taste experience! Saturday | from 10:30 to 12:00.
    Hearing:
    Relax on our fig poufs, listen to the orchard and guess different sounds thanks to our wall of senses. Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 to 17:30.
    The view:
    Screening of the film «Au cœur de paysages désirée» with intervention by Raymond Achili. Through the Cévennes to which he is very attached, landscape architect Michel Péna reveals to us what a landscape is and sheds light on how to perceive it with its emotional and cultural values… A film with splendid images that also reveals the creative spirit of a landscaper whose desire is to restore meaning and culture within abandoned territories. Friday | 6pm | Saturday | 2pm | Maison de la figue | free.
    Smell:
    Conference «Communication plant - insect» The male fig trees raise in their figs small insects, called blastophages, which are the exclusive pollinators of the fig tree. They are guided only by the sweet scent of the fig. Several CNRS researchers have studied this plant-insect communication in the Vézénobres conservatory orchard. They will tell the first results obtained and interpret the way of fruiting through a reading of the leaves, figs and buds. Sunday from 10h to 11h30.
Types of events
Workshop / Demonstration / Technical show
2024 Theme
The five senses in the garden
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Conditions for participation
Free entrance, Reduced fare, Registration required
Type of audience
General public

About the location

Maison de la figue & Verger conservatoire
30360 Vézénobres
  • Gard
  • Occitanie
The fig is the emblematic fruit of the medieval city of Vézénobres. In 2000, the municipality hosts on a plot of 2 ha the duplication of a part of the collection of fig trees of the National Botanical Conservatory of Porquerolles in the Var. A collection of nearly a thousand trees with just under 100 varieties. Single or biferous, the fig tree belongs to the moraceae family and there are several thousand varieties in the world. Here, the varieties, some very rare from Syria or Spain, are practically all suitable for drying, ideally located under the medieval city, exposed to the great sun. A unique scenographic work has been realized in the House of the fig and offers educational and playful contents to discover the history of the fig in Vézénobres.
Tags
Vegetable garden, orchard, Contemporary garden, Jardin de collection (botanique, arboretum...)
Access
Terraces of the Castle, parking access medieval city.
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