Angers gardens in exhibition

A recent petition on Facebook recalls to Angers inhabitants their links, or at least their connection with England history. If the Plantagenet petition is an epiphenomenon, the interest of Angevins for gardening is confirmed by recent initiatives of town hall as well as projets "gardens of expression" due to be implemented next year. During 2012, the city displays its how-know in plants. The Plants garden and above all the splendid Arboretum garden will demonstrate gardening is not only a leisure in Angers but, as in England, a form of art.

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An exhibition of cucurbits takes place in the Plants Garden. Those are displayed like pictures in a art exhibition. The fact the items are not set up vertically as in an art gallery but horizontaly is the only difference because all the components of a painting are gathered : the frames, the backgrounds and the foregrounds. 

In the Arboretum garden, the technic of landscaping a garden is explained : how to design them, how to choose their flowers according to shapes and colors... The only regret has to see with the number of conferences : apparently only two during the summer season. It's a little bit few...