Due to bad weather over the last few days, the Poulaines Gardens and Arboretum will unfortunately be closed from 1 November.
We look forward to seeing you in April 2025 when the gardens reopen: we promise you some surprises!
The garden is open all year round and every day for groups
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Easter egg hunt for children, open tearoom
Pre-booking recommended
Prices :
Children under 4 free
Children aged 6 to 12 €8.50
(One accompanying adult for every three children is compulsory)
Adults/€5
Support campaign for Neurodon
Neurodon: a national campaign created by the FRC to raise public awareness of the brain.
Since 2003, the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France and the Fédération pour la Recherche sur le Cerveau have joined forces to run “Les Jardins ouverts pour le Neurodon”.
For each entry, €2 will be donated to Neurodon, so you can both support research and discover the magnificent blooms of irises, wisteria, clematis, lilacs, roses and peonies in the gardens of the Domaine de Poulaines, not forgetting the spring trees and shrubs in the arboretum and English park.
The mission of the Fédération pour la Recherche sur le Cerveau (Federation for Brain Research) is to advance understanding of how the human brain works, and to remedy its dysfunctions.
Its aim is to get researchers working on themes common to all brain diseases.
Its Scientific Advisory Board assesses and selects research projects submitted by researchers in response to a call for proposals.
It has donated 31.8 million euros to 466 projects throughout France.
Prices: Children aged 8 and over/€5 Adolescents aged 12 to 18/€8 Adults/€9 (no reduced rates), €2 donated to Neurodon.
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World Topiary Art Days
From 2pm to 5pm – Animation: Guided tour by Valérie Esnault, owner of Domaine de Poulaines on May 11 at 3pm.
Rates :
– under 18: Free
Adults: €8
Rendez-vous aux Jardins on the theme “Garden of stones, stones of gardens”.
First weekend of the exhibition by sculptor Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga (May – October)
Admission –
18 years: Free
Adults: €8
Exhibition opening with sculptor Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga
Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga works in natural stone and corten steel.
The stone serves as the basic support, be it dressed or sculpted, and it is from this that the steel emerges. The steel crowns, overlaps and embraces it, and for the smallest works, the steel is cold-worked by hand in an ancestral, ethnic art form using traditional techniques, but transformed into contemporary art.
Journées du patrimoine de Pays” (local heritage days) on the theme ‘Earth to earth’.
2pm to 5pm – Meet the craftsmen involved in restoring the Brettes outbuildings. Project supported by the Délégation Centre-Val de Loire de la Fondation du patrimoine and Mission Bern.
Admission:
– under 18: Free
Adults: €8
Play followed by a picnic en blanc.
Pre-booking required
6pm – “Les Fables de la Fontaine” / Fables, stories, gypsy fiddling
Produced by La Compagnie le Violon sur le toit
Directed and performed by Nathalie Arnoux (actress, violinist, author)
The variety of the fables, the use of masks for some of them and the interludes played live on the violin give the show a special dimension.
Prices: Children 6 to 12: €8.5 / Adults: €16
European Heritage Days on the theme “Architectural Heritage”.
Activities all weekend
Admission :
Free for under-18s
Reduced rate 8 euros
Samhain celebration
Entertainment all weekend
Special holiday openings
Entertainment during Advent weekends