The Jardin botanique d'Aubrac (300 m²) is a small

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 ...

located in

Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac (; Languedocien dialect, Languedocien: ''Sanch Èli d'Aubrac'' or ''Sench Eli d'Aubrac'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Aveyron Departments of France, department in southern France about 7 kilometres from Aubrac ...

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Midi-Pyrénées Midi-Pyrénées (; or ; ) is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Occitania. It was the largest region of Metropolitan France by area, larger than the Netherlands or Denmark. ...

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. It is open on weekends without charge. The garden was established in 1995 within the Domerie d'Aubrac, a former monastery hospital. It now contains more than 500 plants arranged in flowerbeds representing

bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and musk ...

forest A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense ecological community, community of trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, ...

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Types of pasture Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, c ...

, and

rock garden A rock garden, also known as a rockery and formerly as a rockwork, is a garden, or more often a part of a garden, with a landscaping framework of rocks, stones, and gravel, with planting appropriate to this setting. Usually these are small ...

environments. Each plant is labeled with its common and scientific names.

References

Evene.fr entry (French)

BaLaDO.fr entry (French)

Culture.fr entry (French)
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