The Arboretum de l'Étoile des Andaines (13 hectares) is an

arboretum An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, man ...

located in

Champsecret Champsecret () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. Points of interest * Arboretum de l'Étoile des Andaines See also *Communes of the Orne department *Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine Normandie-Maine Regional ...

, Orne,

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

History

The arboretum was created in 1947 by forestry chief Robert Julienne and today contains about 66 types of

hardwood Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from ...

trees and

conifer Conifers are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single ...

s with a walking loop of two kilometers in length.

References

BaLaDO.fr entry (French)

Gardens in Orne Etoile des Andaines {{France-garden-stub