The Jardin botanique de la Charme (18,000 m²), formerly known as the Jardin botanique de la Ville de Clermont-Ferrand, is a municipal

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located at 10, rue de la Charme,

Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, ; ; oc, label=Auvergnat, Clarmont-Ferrand or Clharmou ; la, Augustonemetum) is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 146,734 (2018). Its metropolitan area (''aire d'attract ...

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. It is open weekdays year-round plus weekends in the warmer months; admission is free. The city's first botanical garden was established in 1781 by Abbé Antoine Delarbre on a rented site, now the Jardin Lecoq, and moved multiple times throughout the centuries. Today's garden was created in 1974 and currently contains about 2600 plant

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arranged in a variety of collections including a systematic collection arranged by botanical family (1600 species), a collection of trees and ornamental shrubs, perennials, shade garden with ferns, pond and bog plants, medicinal and useful plants (500 plants), a collection of fruit species, test garden for conifers, and a greenhouse. It also contains a seed collection of 2000 samples.

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Jardin botanique de la Charme

Culture.fr entry (French)
* Paul Émile Girod, ''Le jardin botanique de Clermont et les botanistes de l'Auvergne'', Clermont-Ferrand : G. Mont-Louis, 1893. Charme, Jardin botanique de la Charme, Jardin botanique de la Clermont-Ferrand {{France-garden-stub

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