Forthcoming Events / Programme d’évènements
Activities are open to MGF members, members of partner associations and, where places are available, guests. Where the number of places for a particular event is limited, priority will be given to MGF members.
Les activités sont ouvertes à tout membre de la MGF, aux membres des associations partenaires et, selon disponibilité, aux invités. Dans le cas ou la disponibilité des places pour une activité est limitée, les membres de la MGF auront priorité.
FRANCE
We will then visit the Jardin des Sables in Montvendre, a lovely private 12000 sq m garden owned by Mme Annie Amoretti. She will explain to us how she and her husband created the garden in 1997 on a plot of empty land. Inspired by the natural look of English gardens, it is now well established with a variety of interesting and rare trees and shrubs.
Our day will end with a visit to a nursery specialising in a huge variety of more than 600 irises. The owner will take us around the nursery and answer questions about planting and care of the plants. les-iris-du-grand-barbu.com.
Nous visiterons ensuite le Jardin des Sables à Montvendre, un charmant jardin privé de 12000 m2 appartenant à Mme Annie Amoretti. Elle nous expliquera comment elle et son mari ont créé le jardin en 1997 sur un terrain inutilisé. Inspiré par les jardins anglais, il est maintenant bien établi avec une variété d’arbres et d’arbustes intéressants et rares.
Notre journée se terminera par une visite dans une pépinière spécialisée ayant une grande variété de plus de 600 iris. Le propriétaire nous emmènera dans les champs d’iris et répondra aux questions sur la plantation et l’entretien des plantes. les-iris-du-grand-barbu.com.
A private garden to the north of Nîmes, created by Emmanuel de Sauveboeuf, a passionate collector and gardener, who also created the Jardin des Oules, near Uzès.
The Jardin de la Chapelle, a small romantic garden in Garrigues-Sainte-Eulalie, which has a great variety of roses and interesting flowers.
The garden of Mas de l’Agave, in Moussac, where we will have a picnic.
Thursday 1 June – Château Pérouse, Saint-Gilles and Luma in Arles
09.30 A guided tour of the garden of Château Pérouse, led by the botanical team
10.30 The tenth Annual General Meeting of Mediterranean Gardening France
12.30 Lunch – freshly made sweet and savoury pancakes
15.00 A guided tour of the LUMA landscape park in Arles.
Un jardin privé au nord de Nîmes, créé par Emmanuel de Sauveboeuf, collectionneur et jardinier passionné, qui a également créé le Jardin des Oules, près d’Uzès.
Le Jardin de la Chapelle, un petit jardin romantique à Garrigues-Sainte-Eulalie, qui possède une grande variété de roses et de fleurs intéressantes.
Le jardin du Mas de l’Agave, à Moussac, où nous profiterons de notre pique-nique.
Jeudi 1 juin – Château Pérouse, Saint-Gilles et Luma à Arles
09.30 Visite guidée du jardin du Château Pérouse, menée par l’équipe botanique
10.30 Dixième assemblée générale annuelle de Jardins méditerranéens France
12.30 Déjeuner – crêpes sucrées et salées fraîchement préparées
15.00 Visite guidée du parc paysager LUMA à Arles.
INTERNATIONAL
The MGAP Spring Mediterranean Garden Fair will be held at the FISSUL Exhibition Hall in Silves. Native plants and seeds from specialist suppliers will be for sale as well as ornamental and container plants and succulents. The Fair will include a display garden and sales of fruit trees and herbs. MGAP will have a plant sales table with plants from members gardens and advice about how to use them together with a bookshop and advice on sustainable gardening.
This tour, organised by Mediterranean Plants and Gardens, will start and end in Dubrovnik. The event is primarily botanical with some sightseeing in old Dubrovnik and a visit to a school with an interesting botanical garden further north. The landscapes vary from coastal grasslands to inland limestone hills and mountains with lakes and beech woodland. There will be wild irises, orchids, fritillaries, cyclamen, anemones and crocuses as well as many pretty annuals.
More information at:Plant hunting in Croatia April 2023 – Mediterranean Plants and Gardens (medpag.org)
This MPG trip to western Sicily will feature visits to public and private gardens in Palermo, including Palermo Botanical Garden, a tour of Racalia, a historic family garden restored by MPG member Alison Richards and visits to the ancient Greek sites of Segesta and Selinunte. The trip will be led by local horticulturist, Sergio Cumitini. Accommodation for the first four nights will be in Palermo, followed by three nights in Trapani.
More information and a booking form at: Gardens of western Sicily May 2023 – Mediterranean Plants and Gardens (medpag.org)
This MPG expedition in north-west Greece will be led by Graham Kendall. Participants will see both Mediterranean and Balkan plants, including a relative of the African violet, Ramonda serbica, the lizard orchid, Himantoglossum jankae, and native horse chestnut trees. The scenery is outstanding, with beautiful old stone bridges, villages, chapels and monasteries. Visits include the Unesco World Heritage site of Meteora where monasteries are built on immense natural pillars. For more information: MPG Epirus 2023
Wild flowers and sightseeing on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Dates to be confirmed.
To register an interest, contact Heather Martin.