What do our gardeners do and when?

Raking the courtyard of Manoir d’Eyrignac

- Weekly cleaning of gardens:
sweep sand and gravel walkways, sweep staircases and pavements

Massive Cleanup

- Cleaning French Gardens: pruning, weeding and hoeing

Cutting Grass Borders

- Mowing the grass with the edge trimmer, cutting edges, weeding and hoeing

First mowing of the season

- 1st Mowing and collecting grass clippings in the garden

- sanding (yellow sand): rest-roundabout, yard and path to the chapel of Manoir d’Eyrignac

- watering system: check the integrated watering system, removal of all winter protections of electro-valves and various inspection holes.

- Rose Garden: fertilizing, weeding and hoeing of Opalia clumps, weeding of flower beds (bulbs), emptying and cleaning of the 5 pools, placement of Anduze vases and putting new gravel on walkways + raking

- Anti-germination herbicide treatment on the corners, paving, curbs

- Total herbicide treatment: signs, windsock, sources, rose garden area, picnic area and irrigation basin

- Anti-fungal on all Cypress trees

MAJOR WORKS IN MARCH

Santoline

- Planting Santolines at each apple-tree feet

- Planting 'Ivalace' ivies at the foot of Cypress trees close to the Orangerie

- Planting a Gingko biloba near the Nursery

- Watering all new plants and fertilization

CARE AND PROTECTION OF PLANTS

- granules of organic matter on all the clumps and hedges

- Ringing a cylindrical yew close to the Rest Pavilion, and cypress trees (compost + fertilizer)

- felling a dead maple tree on the parking and replacement

Raking the courtyard of Manoir d’Eyrignac

- Weekly cleaning of the gardens:
raking sand and gravel walkways, sweeping staircases and pavements

Weekly cleaning of the gardens:

- 4 Tontes dans tout le jardin et ramassage des déchets de tonte (1 par semaine sur 4 hectares de gazon)

Uprooting the bulbs

- Uprooting the bulbs (about 5,000 by the end of April)

- Rose Garden: pond cleaning, filling, starting water jets

- Mowing bordering grass with a trimmer and hand cutting of all borders.

- Sowing on damaged borders.

- Fertilizing with manure

- Weeding of hydrangeas

MAJOR WORKS IN APRIL

Renovation of all gravel pathways

- Renovation of all gravel pathways in the garden (raking and removal of old gravel; putting new gravel)

- Removal of the trellis for climbing roses

- Cleaning, and clearing of all surroundings (parking, botanical trails, forest area bordering the public access, surrounding grasslands, picnic area ...)

- Launching the watering system: checking, testing, cleaning sprinklers filters in the garden (more than 500 integrated sprinklers)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF PLANTS

Preparing summer clumps

- Preparing summer clumps:
tilling, manure and compost, scraping

- proping the Cypress trees in the Nursery (replacing tutors)

- watering new lawns and plants

- rabbit repellents on all bulb clumps (early April)

- fertilizing all topiaries in vases + tillage + irrigation

Raking the courtyard of Manoir d’Eyrignac

- Weekly cleaning of the gardens: raking the courtyard of Manoir d’Eyrignac every morning, and raking the sand and gravel paths once a week

Receipt and planting of summer flowers

- Receipt and planting of summer flowers (more than 2500 flowers)

- Cleaning of the water filtration (2 times per week)

- Start automatic night watering and cleaning

- Watering summer in-tub plants and in-pot topiaries once a week as well as sensitive turf.

- Clearing of the surroundings (parking, picnic area, etc)

MAJOR WORKS IN MAY

Finishing works

- Finishing works in the rose garden and near the visitors entrance (cutting edges, cleaning drive- and pathways, scratching clumps and hedgerows).

First large pruning of the Hornbeam Alley

- The first large pruning of the hornbeam alley, and of all the hornbeams: all five gardeners are mobilized and cut with shears in hand, and a plumb-line. The waste is collected with a rake, and removed with a wheelbarrow to make compost.

UPKEEP AND PROTECTION OF PLANTS

- cypress trees next to the old pool are cut due to aging (with shears)

- repellents against rabbits + slug in all flower beds before planting

- Watering every night thanks to the integrated irrigation system