With the time-table
With the orchard

The of Saint-Ay, a garden of the gardens

 
de Saint-Ay close to Orleans is a grass garden of reference in France. On 9 ha of ground he proposes with his visitors a true concentrate of know-how dedicated to the backup of the biodiversity.

de Saint-Ay in Area Center is organized around the layout of an arm of the Mallows, a river coming from and throwing themselves in the Loire.

This garden dedicated to the biodiversity gathers more than 1000 different plant species including 200 indigenous species.

Its inspection is articulated around figure 5: 5 ecological gardens, 5 gardens sets of themes, 5 sites of éco-fauna, 5 alleys harmonic and 5 lyric bridges. True garden of gardens, is managed within a framework of sustainable development. Here, the management techniques reasoned join specific cultivation methods: 0 pesticides, organic manures, contribution of ashes against the slugs, recovery of rainwater, mow spared for the respect of balances…

The discovery by the public of the 9 ha of the field aims to better forwarding than is the biodiversity. Each cultivated piece expresses a diversity of the natural environments. The reconstituted ecosystems allow a fauna varied to find refuge in all quietude. The interaction enters the animal species and vegetable formed integral part of the experimental management of the site. Observatories allow the public neophyte or scientist to discover or study the natural life of the species installed.

is of this fact an exceptional support of sensitizing both for the private individuals the institutions. 

Figure 5 in #D05C75 wire

 goatThe Gardens sets of themes of de Saint-Ay are gardens of presentation of the plants used by the Man. Each garden is organized in 5 squares or 5 spaces.

Among spaces suggested the visitor discovers a garden with the conventional Frenchwoman gathering nearly 500 different plants used by the man laid out in 5 squares (square of health, square of the beauty, square of better being, square magic spells and square of fibers and colors).

Concurrently to this garden, also extends the Garden from Savors with its rare and forgotten vegetables, its aromatics and condiments, its vegetables of the markets, the square of cereals and its Square of vegetables and flowers of the “New kitchen”.

Further, the Garden of Temptations is organized around an orchard which counts forty varieties of the apple trees, about thirty pear trees, various fruit trees (medlar tree, quince tree, walnut tree,…) and of a large variety of #D05C75 fruits.

In addition to these “civilized” gardens, also contains 5 Ecologiques gardens (meadows of mints, Frênaie to the orchises, Bord of water in , the Meadow of the Burnets, the Field of the Cornflowers and the Poppies) and 5 sites of observation of éco-fauna (Meadow of the Butterflies, the Island with the Birds, the Bank with the Amphibians, the island with the Bees, the Cave of the Bats.

Card of the of Saint-Ay

Association of
Field of Neighbors
Route of
45130 Saint-Ay
Tel.: 02 48 48 99 00

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