"Sensory garden at the Abbaye aux Dames, the musical city: secrets of medicinal and edible plants"

Name: "Sensory garden at the Abbaye aux Dames, the musical city: secrets of medicinal and edible plants"
Start: 2024-06-01T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-01T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Jardin des moniales de l'Abbaye-aux-Dames

In the Middle Ages, the ladies of the abbey cultivated many plants, to flavor the kitchen, to heal themselves or for the happiness of contemplating nature. The gardeners of Bellerive perpetuate a…

Saturday 1 June, 14:00, 15:30Passed

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In the Middle Ages, the ladies of the abbey cultivated many plants, to flavor the kitchen, to heal themselves or for the happiness of contemplating nature. The gardeners of Bellerive perpetuate these skills in the gardens of the abbey!
Workshop Schedule:

Exchanges in the nuns' garden to discover, feel and touch plants that do us good;
Gathering of plants to make an infusion at the Abboutique.
Workshop led by the association Bellerive and the Abbaye aux Dames, the musical city.

About the location

Jardin des moniales de l'Abbaye-aux-Dames

Abbaye-aux-Dames, Place de l'Abbaye 17100 Saintes

Charente-Maritime
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Space was sported offering a splendid view(sight) on the bell tower and the Romanic bedhead of the abbey church, the garden of moniales proposes a return(restoration) of what was the garden of simple, that is to say of curative plants, cultivated by the Benedictines for the sick and the pilgrims to which they owed help and assistance(audience). White aroma, lily, officinal peony and other vegetables allow to find the knowledge of virtues of nature while taking up with the memory of the place.