Jardin Botanique De La Roche Fauconnière
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Jardin Botanique De La Roche Fauconnière
The Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière is a private botanical garden located in the Parc de la Fauconnière, Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, Normandy, France. The garden was created in 1870 or 1873 by Alfred Favier and maintained by subsequent family members Léon Favier and Dr. Charles Favier. Today it contains 3,400 taxon, taxa, many from the Southern Hemisphere, with eucalyptus, magnolia, and unusual specimens including ''Ilex nothofagifolia'' and ''Pseudopanax laetevirens''. It is open by appointment only. See also * List of botanical gardens in France References Patrimoine de France entry (French)Guide Sentier Pietons : Cherbourg pages 43–44. Convention on Biological Diversity: French Botanical Gardens* French Wikipedia article for ''Cherbourg-Octeville'' :fr:Octeville#cite note-troisjardins-55, accessed January 14, 2009 Plantes et Jardins entry (French)
* "Visite de la propriété de M. Favier à la Fauconnière", ''Bulletin de la Société d'horticulture de Cher ...
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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. is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. It is their mandate as a botanical garden that plants are labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cactus, cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouse, glasshouses or shadehouses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants that are not native to that region. Most are at least partly open to the public, and may offer guided tours, public programming such as workshops, courses, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, op ...
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