The Jardin des serres d’Auteuil is one of the four botanical gardens maintained by the City of Paris. Created in 1761 under Louis XV, this elegant garden is organised around a huge parterre in the traditional French style. Collections include rare plants, remarkable trees, a palm house, and a beautiful aviary.
The Lautaret garden is located at an altitude of 2100 meters at the Col du Lautaret in the Hautes-Alpes. For more than 100 years, this garden has maintained and preserved a vast collection of 2000 species of flowers from the mountains of the world, in an exceptional landscape setting facing the glaciers of La Meije.
Opened in 1969, the Parc Floral de Paris changes with the seasons, and is popular with plant and nature lovers. Along with the Parc de Bagatelle, École Du Breuil and the Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil, it forms the botanical garden of Paris. Extending over 28 hectares, the park has four distinct landscape spaces.
This one-of-a-kind garden, which is divided into 40 zones and recreates natural environments, is a veritable open-air museum. Discover this exceptional site, with over 3,000 plant species on 3.5 hectares, whose uniqueness invites you to journey through the reconstitution of Mediterranean landscapes.
First known as “Parc Frescatelly”, the Botanical Garden is a 4.4-hectare landscape-style park, created in 1866. It offers many original plant collections: the arboretum with ginkgos, redwoods and bald cypress all centuries old; the rose garden, the scented garden, the grass collection and the perennial flowerbeds.
In 1745, the King of France, Louis XV, requested Jacques Philippe Mareschal design the gardens. Situated at the location of ancient remains, this is Europe’s first public garden featuring a classic 18th century garden and a mediterranean garden.
A listed site around a castle covered with slate from the beginning of the 19th century , the romantic and picturesque gardens of Marqueyssac offer more than 6 kilometers of walks lined with 150,000 century-old hand-cut box trees and decorated with belvederes, rock gardens, wooden huts, dry stone.
Au-delà des jardins proprement dits, s’étend le Parc qui les prolonge naturellement grâce, notamment, à deux immenses pièces d’eau : le Grand Canal et la pièce d’eau des Suisses.
A living museum of plants and a conservatory of biodiversity, the Marnay-sur-Seine botanical garden invites you to reconsider your relationship to the plant world. Stroll through the different parts of the garden arranged according to a route of around twenty themes: the path of evolution, the rose gardens, the medicinal plants, the condiment plants, the…
The Garden of Vaux-le-Vicomte is organized around a brilliantly controlled perspective , more than three kilometers long. By composing the staging of the castle and its setting in the space of 33 hectares cut in the heart of nature, André Le Nôtre and Louis le Vau achieve the most perfect harmony between architecture and landscape of the entire 17th century . The strength and nobility of its overall design, the abundance of water and surprises and its theatrical majesty make the garden of Vaux-le-Vicomte the founding work of a new art, that of French gardens. . They also make this theater an invitation to knowledge, imagination and pleasure.
The neo-futurist Jardins d’Étretat extend over the cliffs of the Côte d’Albâtre, one of the wonders of Normandy with a view listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The gardens are part of a set of volumes in topiary where the landscape, contemporary art, and architecture dialogue in all poetry.
The Château has boasted gardens since the Renaissance from the 16th century, French in the 18th century and transformed into a landscaped park in the 19th century, the gardens of Villandry, which were redesigned by Joachim Carvallo in the early 20th century, are an original creation blending tradition and innovation.
In the heart of the Guadeloupe Islands, the Deshaies Botanical Garden provides a peaceful moment surrounded by magnificent Caribbean flora! This 7 hectare park offers a wide range of remarkable plants and trees. A journey for the senses, for everyone, and is one of the most beautiful gardens on the island.
Endemic Reunionese plants unique in the world, world collection of coffee trees, tropical fruit trees, palm trees, large variety of cacti, Creole orchard, cathedral bamboos, orchids and mixed ferns, Creole residence
The Fruit Gardens of Laquenexy invite you to discover around twenty gardens to awaken your senses. At the heart of the Vegetable Garden, rediscover forgotten vegetable plants from all continents. Continue your journey along the Allée des noisetiers, then the First Nations of Quebec Garden, and in the only Maori garden created outside of New Zealand.
Since its public opening in 1933, the Exotic Garden of Monaco has stayed totally unique. It gathers, outdoor, in a prestigious setting, a big variety of plants called “succulent”. Built on the cliff-side, the Exotic Garden offers a breathtaking view of Monaco where you discover succulent plants with extravagant shapes.
More than 300,000 herbarium sheets are kept at the Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden, dating from the 17th century to the present day. Their study makes it possible to know the distribution of a plant at a given moment and its evolution over time, to record new botanical discoveries, or even to identify plants.
With 7 hectares of greenery in the city center, 10,000 living species, 800 square meters of greenhouses and 50,000 flowers planted each season, the Jardin des Plantes de Nantes, labeled Remarkable Garden, is one of the four major gardens of France. 2 million visitors a year enjoy Claude Ponti’s playground, entertainment, concerts and exhibitions.
The Botanical Conservatory, specializing in the preservation of endangered plants, comes from Jean-Yves Lesouëf. Establshed in 1975, it immediately became popular in France and around the world. The Botanical Conservatory is committed to the policies of the natural heritage of the West of France and present in the world’s high places of biodiversity.
The Botanical Garden highlights plant biodiversity and presents more than 3,000 plants in two exceptional gardens. Unique in the world, the botanical garden offers in its gallery of environments 11 natural landscapes of the Aquitaine basin reconstituted.
Botanical garden rich in four centuries of scientific adventures, the Jardin des Plantes is the historic heart of the National Museum of Natural History. Every day, thousands of visitors, hundreds of researchers and students meet there. This extraordinary place is a museum, a botanical and zoological garden, a research center and a university.
The Jardin botanique de Lyon, also known as the Jardin botanique du Parc de la Tête d’Or, is an 8 hectares municipal botanical garden located in the Parc de la Tête d’or in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, France. It is open weekdays without charge.
You can stroll in the shade of the bamboo grove or along the shady paths of the English garden, admire the Martins greenhouse and its “succulent” plants, or dream on the banks of the lotus pond in the footsteps of André Gide or Paul Valéry. Founded in 1593 by Henri IV, the oldest botanical garden in France covers nearly 5 hectares in the heart of Montpellier.
Welcome to the world of the painter and gardener Claude Monet. For over 40 years, until his death in 1926 , Giverny was his home , his site of creation and his masterpiece . A world of senses, of colors and of memories, the house in which the artist and his family lived notably contains…
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