Séverin Millet's sculptures in the Mercurart garden

Séverin MILLET's sculptures made for the Fubon Bank Foundation in Taipei will be part of the French plastic production on the occasion of "Nuit Blanche 2018" in the capital of Taiwan.

 

An opportunity to revisit his "Témoins" (witnesses) that we've installed in the garden last year. Their environment has changed thanks to many developments.

Enjoy !

A surprising visit at the Mercurart garden

Ain't this special, the temperatures are  below the seasonal norms and yet a small walk in the Mercurart garden gave us a nice surprise...

A Day Peacock was foraging one of our pink rosemary.
Two enchantments on the same photograph !

Did you already planned your stay in the Ardèche and your visit at the Mercurart garden and gallery ?

Mercurart under the snow

Aerial shots, Thursday, March 1st.


Mercurart under the snow ....

Red-legged partridge @ Mercurart

Perdrix @ Mercurart

This morning, at dawn, one of the three red-legged partridges, which we often cross in the Mercurart garden, was placed on the mantelpiece and seems to look out for the two others by a unusual sound caused its loneliness... Where are they?

"Noah" Juice @Mercurart

We've started the realisation of juices of our vines. 

 

This morning we harvested 4,5 kg of the grape variety  "Noah", planted 5 years ago.

With its deep gold bunches and its strawberry, raspberry flavour, the juice is very tasty and don't need any treatment.

Cheers!

Roses @ Mercurart

More than 90 % of the roses in the Mercurart garden are remontant (continuous flowering).
Which, despite the hot, dry conditions, gives beautiful blooming all summer.

St Cécilia the 6th of July 2017.                     Bouquet parfait the 6th of July 2017.

Great river Abitulon @ Mercurart

We took this photo in the Mercurart garden,
A bushy plant of the Malvaceae family, originate from Brazil. Abutilon mégapotamicum, the name of the species ( Méga – Great Potamicum – River), refers to the Amazon River.

The “great river” Abitulon can grow until 2 meters tall and spread as wide.

This plant is also known as "The Chinese Lantern Plant", we understand why, by seeing the flowers…

A clever spider @The Mercurart Garden

We met an artist spider, already presented in the blog of July 5, 2017.

But we just found out that its also a forger.

"Cyclosa conica" has as characteristic of weaving a vertical strip more dense in the middle of his painting, a "stabilimentum", she adorns remains of plants and prey.

"In the middle of this line structure, the spider leaves an opening, where it will settle down. Then it also closes this strip of waste and shrink among the debris in the eyes of some potential predators. The spider take part of the rare species that transform their environment so that they can be camouflaged. "For most animals, the camouflage works in reverse: they are the ones who adapt themselves to the environment".

Source RTBF info.

Another reason to name the large sculptures of Séverin, “Les Témoins” (The Witnesses) lays in the fact that one of the two is positioned in the right direction to observe what has just been described.

Swarms of butterflies @Mercurart

With the lavender bloom, each afternoon, in the summer heat, we find swarms of butterflies in the garden...

Red-legged partridge baby birds saved @Mercurart

Toads @ Mercurart

There's always something new to discover in the garden @Mercurart...
Who would have thought, before meeting them, that there could be such a variety of toads?... Have a look at all those colors.

A quite rare insect has been crossed in the garden of Mercurart

A quite rare insect has been crossed in the garden of Mercurart,
Let us introduce you the flat headed pine borer "Chalcophora mariana"