Jacky the green hand

He acknowledges it itself: he prevents late. Because it is today only that Rodolphe Grosléziat announces me that it opens its kitchen garden with the visit this weekend. I announce you nevertheless the event because the kitchen garden of Rodolphe is worth the glance. Preceded a few years ago, this garden gave the opportunity to Rodolphe to write a book with success: My anti-crisis kitchen garden. Methodical, it patiently noted all work that it carried out there, which its kitchen garden cost him and the economies that it drew some The account of this experiment is rich lesson for all the modern gardeners. Therefore, if you cannot what make Sunday tomorrow, make a turn in Picardy and a turning by the kitchen garden of Rodolphe.
There is a guided visit every hour of 13:30 to 17:30. It is early in season, especially for a kitchen garden, especially with this spring when nothing pushes but it is like that! , the gardener-writer comments on.
The entry is with 4 and the entirety of the benefit is transferred with association Jardin Art and Care to finance the installation of a therapeutic garden with Saint Valery.

The kitchen garden is in Bourseville in the Sum. It is before last house on the line while going towards Woignarue.

Early and icy winter, snow-covered episodes which did the one of the newspapers, the risks of pluviometry, spring flash and concentrated, be like an autumn, autumn like a summer glorious and transitory Floraisons, gone up sap unusual which made refleurir rhododendrons and camellias, foliations of autumn which literally exploded at the same time year 2010/2011 will leave the one year extraordinary memory! And it could be the same about it well for 2012 which is also announced like an atypical year on the climatic level.

But what becomes the plants in all that? It is with this topic that the days of the plants of Courson are devoted which are held this weekend

In this new heading discover strange or magic places which can be the subject discovered of weekend, walks on the topic of the garden.

- 5 gardens are linked for an offer discovered! (49 Anjou)

- New: a site to discover the gardens in Lorraine

- The diary of the principal demonstrations gardens in the English Channel (50)

- Gardens of Barbirey (21)

Do not mislead you there! In spite of ambient freshness, the beautiful days arrive Finally it is hoped for. Therefore, we here in May and it is time to take care of our cultures. Here today some councils to prepare the solid masses of irises, given by a specialist, Richard Cayeux (photo opposite).

And I can only incite you to benefit from the bridges of May to go for a walk in the Val-de-Loire and to discover the marvellous spectacle of the fields of Iris in flower. Richard Cayeux proposes to you to visit them free. Here how to make.

Here our selection of the principal demonstrations devoted to the garden or the gardening, everywhere in France for May:

- the Castle of the Rock-Guyon proposes one of the most beautiful horticultural appointments of France (95 Val-d'Oise) 

- Ploëzal: The festival of the gardens to the departmental field of the Rock Jagu (22 Coasts of Amor) 

- Botanical garden: For the 6th edition of the Festival of Nature, go to the national Natural history museum of Natural history (75 Paris)

- Botanical garden of Rouen: Festival seeds of garden (76 the Maritime Seine)

- Coast of Amiens: The festival of the plants of the Citadel of Doullens celebrates its 25 years (80 Amiens)

With the return of spring, certain shrubs make sad mine in the garden: their sheets are burned under the combined effect of the sun and the intense cold which we knew in February. The plants with persistent foliage the most suffered from this winter atypiqueet in particular Euvonymus, Laurier tyn, cotoneaster, Eleagnus, Ceanothes Bernard Dubois, nursery gardener of the Rosny-on-Seine (Yvelines) notes the damage and gives the councils to be followed to repair them.

 2-how to repair the damage of freezing: treatment

From April 20 to May 20, the site of www.gerbeaud.com gardening launches a big competition of photographs, through all France, to celebrate the arrival of spring. With your apparatuses to follow the departure of nature in your gardens and on your balcony. Here how to take part.

Green music, workshops of initiation to the floral elixirs or of the trott-discovery of edible plants: ground with the plate, bark with the feather bed, the vegetable escapes invite to an astonishing voyage in the middle of nature and its mysteries. In forest of Brocéliande or in the Moors of Lanvaux, a hundred animations is declined around the plant on the set of themes of the plants partners, those which nourish, looks after or maintains the myths the local legends. An original appointment with nature, programmed according to each season

Stroll culinary. Strange, the vegetable escapes propose inter alia stroll natural to discover edible wild plants or local aromatic herbs. Nettles to make soups or ointments, alliaire to replace mustard seeds, or rocks - in stem, seed, in flower, all is eaten! - to decorate sweetened or salted dishes These animations make it possible to learn how to put green in its plate and to offer a little culinary imagination! Fairy with the flower: a bridge between the imaginary one and reality for this very first edition, the escapes vegetable chose the topic of the plants partners, of the corn which makes it possible to manufacture the bread with saponin, the camomile or the calendula, which are used to make beauty products. Plants of the daily newspaper, almost banal, but which finally have a whole a magic capacity. Of this reality ground with ground with the legends which escape from the old secular trunks of the forest of Brocéliande, it has only one step there that the Capucine fairy-flower will make with the public. This small character wire-red will leave to the liking the seasons with discovered world which surrounds it, and will be the official storyteller of these vegetable escapes.
 
The godfather of this very first edition is the president of the national committee of the Parks and Gardens of France, Mr. Didier Wirth. L will give a conference on Saturday April 21 to 18:00 with Ploërmel, which will inaugurate officially the launching of these first vegetable escapes.

The weather was very cold, then very hot before returning to a certain freshness but always with a dryness which becomes alarming. Any a.c. gives a cocktail well not very gravitational for the gardener. Sowings raise badly or at all but spring is there. Nothing is still lost, but the best council than one can give is to be patient. Here some of the innovations that you pouvez to find in your garden-centers.