Maintaining and running parks and gardens

Managing a park or garden in a heritage site means respecting the requirements of living things through thoughtful, concerted maintenance, with particular attention paid to welcoming the public and external events.

Photo de jardiniers dans le jardin de l'Hôtel de Sully

  • PNV

  • 9.30am - 5.30pm

  • 2 days

  • 1 150 € - Please contact us for preferential rates
  • Landscape maintenance manager, landscape gardener
    Green spaces manager
    Owners, directors and managers of public and private heritage sites, parks and gardens managers
  • Domaine national de Saint Cloud and online

  • Face-to-face and online

  • Basic knowledge of park, garden or heritage site management - Online module to be completed before the face-to-face session

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Objectives - Target skills

  • To be familiar with the stages, constraints and legal aspects of maintaining the green spaces of a heritage site
  • Develop your knowledge of how to manage a natural area, park or garden, while respecting the living system and historical expectations
  • Understand the concept of a management plan and current developments in management methods.

Detailed programme

LEGALFRAMEWORK- [ONLINE MODULE - Trainer: Solenne Blondet]

  • Regulations governing work in listed or registered gardens
  • The relevant government departments and administrative channels

MAINTENANCE AND CONSERVATION - [PRESENTIAL - Trainer: Laurent Mortier]

  • Understanding the rules governing work on listed or registered gardens
    • Presentation of the different types of work
    • Definition: what is meant by maintenance work?
    • Prerequisites for controlled maintenance
    • Knowledge of the site / documentary base / archives
    • Planning the work
  • Organisation and methodology of work
    • Definition of the type of work to be carried out - in-house or outsourced (requirements, qualifications of contractors, estimates, works authorisation, specifications, purchase order contract, etc.).
    • Reconnaissance of work site
    • Protection/safety measures
  • Management plans
    • What is a management plan?
    • Exercise: establish the content of the programme for the team responsible for drawing up the management plan for the garden/area for which you are responsible.
    • Presentation of the Rambouillet management plan
  • Changes in management methods - factors having an impact
    • Human resources and budget
    • Labbé Law (environmental management, biodiversity)
    • Global warming (plants, water resources)
    • Changes in methods of intervention
      • Roads (taking account of new constraints)
      • Lawns / meadows
      • Horticultural supplies (soil improvers, fertilisers, organic mulch, etc.)
      • Trees (forest replanting, edges)
      • Recovery of plant waste and operating products
      • Developments in garden equipment

BONUS [ONLINE]: The "Remarkable Garden" label

Methods & Procedures

TEACHING METHODS AND TOOLS

  • Case studies
  • Practical exercise: drawing up a management plan for the garden/area that the participants are currently responsible for or involved in.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

  • Knowledge MCQs

Speakers

Laurent MORTIER

Management expert for gardens and large estates at the Centre for National Monuments

"A former administrator of the Rambouillet estate, I am an expert in the management of gardens and large estates within the CMN's Monuments and Collections Conservation Department. "

Portrait de Solenne Blondet

Solenne BLONDET

Chief State Architect and Town Planner-Conservator of Historic Monuments, at the Centre des Monuments Nationaux

"After working as an architect for Bâtiments de France, I was put in charge of conservation and project management, and have been responsible for the preventive conservation of national monuments since the creation of project management at the CMN in 2009. To this end, I have helped to develop methodological and practical tools for the conservation and maintenance of national monuments. "