Rendez-vous aux Jardins 2025: visit and workshop at the Arboretum de la Vallée aux Loups (92)

For Rendez-vous aux Jardins 2025, the public is invited to the Vallée-aux-Loups estate in Châtenay-Malabry, a valley inhabited by deer, roe deer, wild boar and wolves. An ideal opportunity to spend the day in nature, surrounded by remarkable trees, thanks to a wide range of activities open to all. The 60-hectare estate boasts a rich cultural and botanical heritage, and the Arboretum, a former Croux nursery, continues the site's horticultural vocation today.

Unique plant collections of convolvulaceae, alders and hydrangeas have been added to the century-old trees. The Ile Verte garden, created by the poet Jules Barbier and home to the painter Jean Fautrier from 1945 to 1964, offers visitors a stroll in a "timeless", wild and romantic place where atmospheres blend and mingle, not far from the Maison de Chateaubriand, where the author lived from 1807 to 1817, and wrote Les Mémoires d'Outre-tombe. His passion for botany led him to introduce rare species to the park, reflecting his travels: the Cedar of Lebanon, the bald cypress...

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The Rendez-vous aux Jardins 2025 program

On Saturday June 7, from 2pm to 4pm, a workshop in Ishitsuki creation, a Japanese technique combining trees and rocks, is available on reservation at reservation.nature@hauts-de-seine.fr. The bonsai greenhouse will also be open to the public from 2pm to 6pm.

On Saturday June 7 and Sunday June 8, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., guided tours of the Collection nationale des convolvulacées will be organized, with entrance from 102 rue de Chateaubriand. In addition, from 3pm to 6pm, a convolvulaceae sowing workshop will be held in the dedicated greenhouse.

These activities offer a unique opportunity to discover the botanical wealth and diversity of the estate's mineral landscaping. For more information on the full program of Rendez-vous aux Jardins 2025 in Île-de-France, visit the official website of the French Ministry of Culture.