The Jardin des Plantes de Rouen (8 hectares) is a municipal

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located at 7, rue de Trianon, Rouen,

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. 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

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purchased the garden in 1719, and in 1741, after several other owners, it was opened to the public. In 1806

Sophie Blanchard Sophie Blanchard (25 March 1778 – 6 July 1819), commonly referred to as Madame Blanchard and also known by many combinations of her maiden and married names, including Madeleine-Sophie Blanchard, Marie Madeleine-Sophie Blanchard, Marie Sophie ...

made a solo balloon ascension from the grounds, in 1811

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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 Alfred Crace Calvert set up greenhouses for

dahlia Dahlia (, ) is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico and Central America. A member of the Asteraceae (former name: Compositae) family of dicotyledonous plants, its garden relatives thus include the sunflower, ...

s. 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

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, representing 600

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, with a notable collection of

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s (991 varieties). It contains a rock garden (1300 m²), garden of

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and

hemerocallis A daylily or day lily is a flowering plant in the genus ''Hemerocallis'' , a member of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae. Despite the common name, it is not in fact a lily. Gardening enthusiasts and horticulturists have long ...

(450 m²),

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garden (670 m²), squares of

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s (60 plants), as well as an orchard and collections of aromatic and carnivorous plants. Buildings include an

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, the central greenhouse (1839-1842), seven additional greenhouses (1883-1884) including a palmarium, and tropical greenhouses (1936-1938). The garden also contains statues of local writer Eugène Noël (1816-1899) and a

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stone from

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placed in 1911.

References

Jardin des Plantes de Rouen

Bibliography

* Jules Bouteiller, ''Le Jardin des plantes de Rouen'', Julien, Rouen, 1856. * Georges Vanier, "Les Anciens Jardins des plantes de Rouen", in ''Bulletin des Amis des monuments rouennais'', 1935-1938. * Alfred Morel, "Le Pavillon XVIIIe siècle du Jardin des Plantes", in ''Bulletin des Amis des monuments rouennais'', 2002, pages 81-84. * Gilles Triolier, "Plongée au cœur du Jardin des plantes", in ''Paris-Normandie'', 11 avril 2006. * Bernard Boullard, ''Plantes et arbres remarquables des rues, squares et jardins de Rouen'', AREHN, PTC, 2006, pages 69-72. .

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