Composing an English garden: creating and maintaining plant tableaux

Acquire the skills needed to compose and integrate a bed in an English garden, while respecting the historical standards of these gardens, as well as monitoring and maintenance.

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  • Short online format (less than 4 hours)

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  • Landscape maintenance manager, landscape gardener
    Green spaces manager
    Owner, director and manager of public and private heritage sites, parks and gardens manager
  • Distance learning (on your own, at your own pace)

  • Online

  • Interest in natural and plant heritage

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Objectives - Target skills

  • Knowing how to read and decipher an English garden
  • Understand the concept of the plant tableau and how to design a bed in keeping with its environment
  • To be familiar with the principles of maintaining and enhancing an English-style garden

Detailed programme

CONCEPT OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN: origin and definition in terms of the history of gardens

OVERVIEW

  • The notion of plant "tableaux" in an English-style garden: viewpoints, layout of paths, atmosphere of the place
  • Collections of trees, copses, etc.
  • Between tradition and adaptation: the idea of an English-style garden

FROM THE POSITIONING OF A BED IN THE GARDEN TO ITS COMPOSITION

  • Scaling the beds
  • Choice of plants: the place of perennials, the question of exposure, whether or not to complement with annuals, the challenges of flowering...

MAINTENANCE OF AN ENGLISH GARDEN

  • Recurring traditional activities: good practice in storing and maintaining bulbs and tubers, cutting flower beds, mulching, etc.
  • Specific actions & tourist attraction: remarkable tree and garden, Land Art during the autumn period, etc.

Methods & Procedures

TEACHING METHODS AND TOOLS

  • Case studies
  • Exercise in designing a massif

ASSESSMENT METHODS

  • Knowledge multiple-choice questions
     

Speaker

Portrait de Nicolas Juvené

Nicolas JUVENE

Head gardener at the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, Centre for National Monuments

"I've loved the world of plants ever since I was a child, and after an unusual career in a number of different professions, I joined the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau as head gardener.This has enabled me to imagine and design the landscaping that contributes to the beautification of the park, a veritable showcase for the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau."