- Jardin botanique de Caen
The Jardin botanique de Caen (5,000 m²), more formally known as Le jardin des plantes et le jardin botanique de Caen, is a
botanical garden andarboretum located at 5, place Blot,Caen ,Calvados ,Basse-Normandie ,France . It is open daily.The garden's earliest plants were collected in 1689, and its first catalog published in 1781 ("Jardin botanique de Caen" by Farin and Demoneuse). It was established on the site of an old stone quarry as a university botanical garden, but in 1803, after the
French Revolution , it was extended by 3.5 hectares to become a municipal park. In 1860 two largegreenhouses were constructed, and a botanical institute added in 1891, but all were destroyed inWorld War II . New greenhouses were built in 1988.Today the garden contains more than 8,000
species laid out in two sections. The lower section contains native plants ofNormandy (about 1,000 species), a medicinal garden (600 plants), horticultural collections (700 varieties), rockeries (1,500 dwarf specimens), anarboretum of trees and shrubs (500 species), and a greenhouse of about 1,500 exotic species. The upper section is a public park containing remarkable tree specimens including "Sophora japonica " (1750), "Sequoiadendron giganteum " (1890), and "Cryptomeria japonica " (1870).See also
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List of botanical gardens in France References
* [http://www.ville-caen.fr/environnement/espacesverts/jardinplantes/index.htm Le jardin des plantes et le jardin botanique de Caen]
* [http://www.conservatoire-jardins-paysages.com/jardins.php?id=274 Conservatoire des Jardins et Paysages description (French)]
* [http://www.aujardin.org/14000-caen-jardin-botanique-caen-t46070.html Au Jardin description and photographs (French)]
* [http://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/breaks/gardens/caen Brittany Ferries description]
* [http://old.rtbf.be/rtbf_2000/bin/view_something.cgi?id=0189712_article&menu=0010728_menulist&pub=www.rtbf.portail%2Fbad Jardins et Loisirs description (French)]
* Roger Lawrence Williams, "Botanophilia in Eighteenth-century France: The Spirit of the Enlightenment", Springer, 2001, page 117. ISBN 9780792368861.
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