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Jardin des Plantes

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Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes
Phone:
02 35 08 87 45

Hours:
Sunday8am - 6:45pm
Monday8am - 6:45pm
Tuesday8am - 6:45pm
Wednesday8am - 6:45pm
Thursday8am - 6:45pm
Friday8am - 6:45pm
Saturday8am - 6:45pm


The Jardin des Plantes de Rouen is a municipal botanical garden located at 7, rue de Trianon, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France. It is open daily without charge. The garden dates to 1691 when Louis de Carel acquired forest land within which he built a walled garden and pavilion. Scottish banker John Law purchased the garden in 1717, and in 1741, after several other owners, it was opened to the public. In 1806 Sophie Blanchard made a solo balloon ascension from the grounds, in 1811 Napoleon purchased the garden to establish the Sénatorie de la Seine-Inférieure, and in 1817 Élisa Garnerin parachuted from a balloon launched on the site. In 1820 English horticulturist Crac Calvert set up greenhouses for dahlias. The municipality of Rouen purchased the site in 1832 for its botanical garden, to designs by Désiré Lejeune and construction by Guillaume Dubreuil, which in 1840 opened to the public as the Jardin des Plantes. In 2004 the garden was recognized by the Association des jardins botaniques de France et des pays francophones. Today the garden contains over 5600 plant taxa, representing 600 species, with a notable collection of fuchsias . It contains a rock garden , garden of iris and hemerocallis , rose garden , squares of medicinal plants , as well as an orchard and collections of aromatic and carnivorous plants. Buildings include an orangery, the central greenhouse , seven additional greenhouses including a palmarium, and tropical greenhouses . The garden also contains statues of local writer Eugène Noël , a runic stone from Denmark placed in 1911, and a bust of the god Pan.
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