Come sign up for “Rendez-vous aux Jardins” 7-9 June 2019, a garden event organised across Europe.

Rendez-vous aux Jardins is a festival to help people across Europe discover or rediscover more than 3 000 parks and private and public gardens over a weekend in June. Open to garden owners and managers, Parks Departments and all responsible for gardens in Ireland

Special events and demonstrations offer a chance to explore our garden heritage, to appreciate the skills and knowhow of gardeners, landscape designers and parks managers.

The French Ministry of Culture is proposing a theme for 2019:

“Animals in the garden”
Animals may be harmful for some gardeners: Boxwood borer, aphid, Colorado potato beetle, slug, rodents, deer, etc. But animals can also help maintain gardens: ladybirds, earthworm, pollinators, hedgehog, sheep, draft horse, etc.The animal is an indispensable component of zoological gardens; It can also be an ornamental element like the peacock, or in garden statues.

What is involved:
• Register your event and garden on the Website : https://openagenda.com/rdvj-2019-europe (“add an event”)
• Host a special event or demonstration on the theme:
e.g. Consider linking to an action in a pollinator plan, Surveys of the animals, birds and insects living in your garden,
Art activities themed on animals in the garden

The co-ordinators will send you posters and will promote your event and garden through social media, across Europe.

In Ireland the Heritage Council will promote your event through its social media

Further details on rendezvousauxjardins.fr
Register your event and garden on the Website : https://openagenda.com/rdvj-2019-europe  (“add an event”)