Jardin des plantes de Lille
(Redirected from
Jardin des Plantes de Lille
)The jardin des plantes de Lille (11 hectares) is a municipal botanical garden located on the rue du Jardin des plantes, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
The garden was established in 1948 as a successor to various city botanical gardens dating from 1596. It is one of three botanical gardens in Lille, the others being the
université catholique de Lille
.
The garden is designed as a pleasure park, with botanical plots containing more than 1,500 plants grouped by families; an
frangipani. The garden also contains a rose garden, trees grouped by geographical origin, and a dahlia
collection, as well as a large pond and the city's astronomical observatory.
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