2012 Calendar for Louisa Jones

Noted in red are events are open to the public

Garden Tour in Provence dates in 2012: : Sunday April 15nd –Saturday 21th AND Sunday October 7th--Saturday October 12th. For details, see Garden Tours

MARCH

Tuesday March 27 Nîmes guest lecture in a kind of “free university” course on Mediterranean botany given by Véronique Mure, well-known specialist (see my book Nouvelles natures, her own books and the blog of her own garden: : http://labigotie.fr/blog/ )

This course is offered by the Comité d'Animation, de Réflexion et de Formation pour les Retraités du Gard cour sur la Botanique. For Véronique’s most interesting course outline, see http://nimes.cadref.chez-alice.fr/pdf/nmebo.pdf. She gives a different course each year, worth keeping an eye on…

APRIL

Sunday April 15 late morning: Plant Fair at Sérignan le Comtat (north of Orange) I’ll be doing a chat presentation and signing of my two new books, Mediterranean Landscape Design and Manifeste pour le jardin méditerranéen. This is one of the best plant fairs in the south, its theme this year is “Trees”. Marc Nucera will be exhibiting his work here. For details and an excellent list of nurseries, see www.plantes-rares.com.

MAY

Friday May 4: Rome, Italy, in the afternoon
Lecture on Mediterranean Gardens for the Giardini Aperti association, hosted by the British School at Rome in the Borghese Gardens. Website: www.giardiniaperti.it

JUNE

June 2-3 OPEN GARDEN weekend all over France

Saturday June 2 3 p.m.
Chat session and booksigning at the Médiathèque of Alès, organized by the Librairie Sauramps en Cévennes.

Sunday June 3 at 3 p.m.

Chat session and booksigning at the Jardin des Sambucs, near Le Vigan. Agnès Brückin, creator of this wonderful garden, contributed a poem to my Manifeste pour les jardins méditerranéens.

Le Jardin des Sambucs, Hameau le Villaret, 30570 Saint André de Majencoules ; www.jardinsambucs.com 06 82 49 59 19

OCTOBER

Tuesday October 30 Barcelona

Lecture on Mediterranean Gardening and debate, final speech in a series on this theme, my lecture in French, others in Catalan. Details to follow.