The Jardins des Martels is a commercial

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and flower park located in Giroussens, Tarn,

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. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The gardens were created by Marie-Thérèse and André Reynier in the late 1960s, as a private garden on their farm, and after considerable development opened to the public in 1994. Today the garden is set upon a well-landscaped terrain of numerous pools and hills, and features more than 2500 plant varieties from five continents, as well as a

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s and a mini-farm with about 150 animals such as sheep, goats, ponies, ducks, and so forth.

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Jardins des Martels

Conservatoire des Jardins et Paysages entry (French)

Gardens in Tarn (department) Botanical gardens in France {{France-garden-stub

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