The theme : Come and make your house fronts sing!

For this spring edition of the Plant & Garden Festival, Les Jardins d’Aywiers is calling on its visitors to liven up their walls and house fronts with attractive plants and flowers and make them welcoming to both flora and fauna.   
To each his/her own style and tastes. The vast existing range of climbers and creepers makes it possible to create many different environments. A great deal can be done to create a small, “ordinary” natural area where many different creatures, which often need somewhere to go and rest, can be made welcome.

Events & activities

Our exhibitors invite you to all the workshops and activities they propose!

Demonstration
​Isabelle's bouquets

Isabelle Olivier-Luyten :  How to make beautiful bouquets with the flowers of your garden ? (Saturday 11am)
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Lecture
Multiplying our seeds

​Fanny Lebrun from the Cycle en Terre   cooperative: “Multiplying our seeds: why is it so important and how can we participate?” (conference Saturday 2pm)

Lecture
To a more living soil!

Marc Verhofstede, Humus bvba :  
"L'Humus : revitalisons nos sols
grâce au compost"
(Sunday 11am)

Talks
​Biodiversity

Biodiversity expert Michel Fautch will share his experience and supply informed advice in the course of two talks, Mille Lieux stand (Sunday 11am-3pm).

Lecture
​Beeodiversity

​Dr Bach Kim Nguyen, "Beeodiversity: développement d’un projet sociétal - Abeilles – Pollinisateurs – Biodiversité – Diversité alimentaire – Santé ", ( Sunday 2pm).

Live painting!
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Painter Sophie Collet, who illustrates all of our events with watercolours, will paint a large fresco “live”, Sophie Collet stand
​(all weekend).

About the theme

Flower your house front !

Exhibition of planters filled with annuals, 
Flower basket stand
​(Saturday/Sunday 11am).

Breathe life into your house front!

Learn how to make nesting-boxes for your house front or garden,
​Lasne Nature Stand
 (Saturday/Sunday 2pm: registration required at the stand).

What shouldn't be missed

Guided tour

Guided tour of the former Aywiers Abbey
Meeting point in front of the castle
(Saturday/Sunday 3pm) 

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"Les Coups de Coeur"  

Marie-Pascale Vasseur and Marie-Noëlle Cruysmans will present you the exhibiting nurserymen favorites and give you many gardening tips and advices! «Les Coup de Cœur» stand (all weekend)

Organic compost 

Workshops by Marc Verhofstede 
Humus Stand
​​(Friday 1pm-3 pm-5pm,
​Saturday/Sunday 11 am-1 pm-3 pm-5 pm)
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Zero pesticides in 2019  !

Presentation of the Commune de Lasne “Opération Zéro Phyto en 2019” and the          concept of alternative management of green spaces​ Pôle de Gestion Différenciée stand
(all weekend)

Gardening without chemicals

“Discover microorganisms for gardening without chemicals” by Geert Top,
Embo Tree Stand​
(all weekend)
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Nature in your garden !

Tips and tricks to attract nature into your garden, Natagora stand
​(all weekend)

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For kids

Creative workshops

By « The Belgian Kids’ Fund for Pediatric Research” &  «Kids’Care The Human Touch » Contribution to the benefit of these non-profit organizations
(Saturday/Sunday)

Tree climbing

 Grimpe d'arbres Stand
Registration required
​at the stand
(Saturday/Sunday) 

Poney-back rides

La Ferme du Nil Stand  
​(Saturday/Sunday afternoons) ​

Recycling workshops

Do your own insect hotel !
Les Hotels à Insectes stand
Registration required
​at the stand 
(Saturday/Sunday 3pm)