Garden's days

June 1 and 2 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Free guided tours of the exotic garden Departure at the entrance to the exotic garden Succulent plants, their origins, their uses. Cacti, agavaceae, aloes, euphorbiaceae… Presentation of the northern part dedicated to Mediterranean plants. How these plants changed their metabolisms and adapted to drought. Entrance to the exotic garden under usual conditions Saturday June 1st at 5 p.m. at the exotic garden Theater “Fallen from the sky” by the company BAL Free show – Entrance to the exotic garden under the usual conditions After the Tour de l'Infini, the Epic of the Meadows, the Vertigo of the Flowers and the Waltz of the Seasons, here is Tombés du ciel, the fifth garden comedy from the B.A.L. company. (Light Arts) inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Fallen from Heaven in a few words… The gods have fallen from the sky, and ask for hospitality from men. Usually, we are the ones who pray to them. But everything changes. Their paradise has become uninhabitable. And the earth is still beautiful. What will they do with us? Let's not be afraid, the Olympians no longer have the means for a flood: Zeus no longer has any battery, so waste it to take revenge... In exchange for our hospitality, Iris, Prometheus, Hermes and Hera will lead us through their legends. That of Phaethon who, burning to drive the chariot of the sun, devastated everything around him, those of the peasants of Lycia who chose to dirty the water rather than share it. Will we be able to take its seed and transform ourselves as Ovid invites us to do? What are garden comedies? In the garden, during summer time, when the light turns golden, the spectator-walker accompanies the musicians and actors who lead him from scene to scene. The decor is lively, vegetal, the light comes from very far away, from the sun. Demeter, Persephone, Cyane play with their bare hands on the grass. No backstage. Everything is in sight. A natural theater.