City gardeners stand

Name: Stand de jardineros de la ciudad
Start: 2024-06-01T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardins de la Fontaine

The know-how of the gardener

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©mairie de Nîmes

The know-how of the gardener

Come and meet gardeners from the City of Nîmes and discover all the «zero phyto» tips to maintain your gardens while respecting the fauna, flora and environment: water-saving and allelopathic plants, mulches, hedgerows, etc.
Through playful and educational games, try to associate plants according to their scents and textures. With the help of the chromatic circle, introduce yourself to the art of color choices for a flowering while contrasts and shades. Awaken your taste buds with vegetable and aromatic plants.
Direction cadre de vie of the City of Nîmes
Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 6pm

About the location

Jardins de la Fontaine

26 Quai de la Fontaine, 30900 Nîmes

Gard
Occitanie

Public gardens created in the XVIIIth century by Jacques Philippe Mareschal, military engineer of the king Louis XV, on the location of a sanctuary of the roman time. Compound(Made up) of two distinct environmental spaces: French-style classic garden centered on the founding source(spring) of the city and romantic garden done up in the XIXth century on the slopes of the Mount-rider. The double staircase, the channel(canal) of the Quay(Platform) of the Fountain, the channels(canals) of regulation supplement architecture. Roman monuments (Diana's temple, tour(tower,ballot) Hurries, pond of the source(spring)) and furniture of vases(muds) and statues. Standing paths of pines, of chestnut trees of India and of cedars. Many Mediterranean plants.
Open all year long.