The Jardin botanique de Bayeux (2.6 hectares), also called the Jardin public de Bayeux, is a

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

and municipal park located at 53, route de Port-en-Bessin,

Bayeux Bayeux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts ...

, Calvados,

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. It is open daily without charge. The garden site was formerly a meadow, bequeathed in 1851 by Charlemagne Jean-Delamare (1772–1858) as a garden for teaching

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, landscaped by Eugène Bühler (1822–1907), and in 1864 opened to the public. Many specimens planted from 1859–1864 remain. The most notable among its roughly 400 mature trees is a weeping European Beech that in 1932 was named a natural monument and in 2000 a remarkable tree of France.

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Jardin botanique de Bayeux

Conservatoire des Jardins et Paysages description (French)

* French Wikipedia entry: ''Bayeux'' Bayeux, Jardin botanique de Bayeux, Jardin botanique de Bayeux {{France-garden-stub

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