Since 2007, a study day is organized each year by the French Ministry of Culture on the theme chosen for the “Rendez-vous aux Jardins”: this study day was thus devoted this year to the theme "Transmission of knowledge".

Since the Renaissance, garden art treatises, plans, flowerbed models and engravings have been circulating throughout Europe and thus ensure the transmission of knowledge through writing or image, public and private archives being also involved in it. Knowledge related to gardens, horticulture and landscape is also transmitted through teaching in dedicated places but also through more unusual or modern means such as blogs or tutorials. We also learn by travelling (as Tour de France Companions do) or by listening to or watching the elders. The guide-lecturers, during guided tours of parks or gardens, also ensure the dissemination of such knowledge to a larger public.

The proceedings of that study day are available here (only in French)