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2015 edition - Extraordinary gardens, collector's gardens

08. LE JARDIN DES GRAINES

Green card given to the Botanical Gardens of France

published at 18/09/2017

This garden presents a diversified collection of plants that is representative of botanical gardens, along with a collection of seeds and wood sculptures of huge seeds by the artist-botanist Didier Rousseau-Navarre.

Le jardin des graines, Festival des Jardins 2015 - © Ériic Sander

The purpose of botanical gardens is to constitute and conserve collections of living plants. They also collect seeds for storage in their seed banks and recording in a document entitled Index seminum, for French and international botanical gardens tend above all to trade in seeds. Through this trading network the various gardens are able to enrich and diversify their plant collections.

The seed is probably the strongest semantic representation there is for talking about life. It contains an entire living plant within, we're talking forests, fields - landscapes even. No matter whether they are microscopic or massive like the coco de mer, seeds come in a whole range of colours and shapes, with all kinds of decorative markings, which also bestow upon them undeniable aesthetic value. They scatter through the air, on land and in water in quite astonishing ways.

Here, the sieve - a botanist's essential tool for sorting seeds - is used as a building block in the garden space. Accumulated and assembled like mashrabiya decorative window screens, the sieves provide transparent spaces through which successive grounds can be created and samples of seeds can be presented in the manner of insect collections.

DESIGNERS

The Department of Green spaces and the Environment at the City of Nantes and the Botanical Gardens of Angers, Brest, Caen, La Gacilly, Monaco, Nantes and Tours
Sculptures from Didier ROUSSEAU-NAVARRE
FRANCE
 
The Botanical Gardens of France (J.B.F) was founded as a not-for-profit association in 1979 with the aim of: :
  1. bringing together public and private botanical gardens in France and French-speaking countries as well as the legal entities and people who work within them, irrespective of their rank or position, so as to:
  2. increase the number of opportunities they have for working together to extend and promote the Botanical Gardens, hone their knowledge and share ideas, experiences and plants from their collections,
  3. help conserve endangered biotopes and plants across all geographical areas and provide consultancy services in development projects that involve the environment,organise seminars, study days and conferences, to disseminate new knowledge, and support their educational role,
  4. plan and officially arrange participation or coordination with the public authorities and other similar associations in France or abroad,
  5. provide counsel and defence for the staff regulations of Botanical Gardens,
  6. help to design or develop other Botanical Gardens worldwide.

THE GARDEN'S PLANTS

Acer campestre
Ailanthus altissima
Argania spinosa
Arthropodium cirrhatum
Braeha armata
Calocedrus decurrens
Camelia japonica
Cannomois grandis
Carya illinoinensis
Croton mauritianus
Cryptomeria japonica
Dicksonia antartica
Eucalyptus gunii
Euphorbia melliphera
Francoa longaeva
Jubea chilensis
Liquidambar styraciflua
Liriodendron tulipifera
Magnolia grandiflora
Microstobos fitzgeraldii
Monizia edulis
Persea americana
Phoenix canariensis
Polystichum drepanum
Rubus lineatus
Ruizia cordata
Salix thomasii
Sisyrinchium bellum
Tetrapanax papyrifera
Tricocereus peruvianus

GARDEN CREATED WITH SUPPORT FROM

Pépinières du Val d'Erdre

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Jardins botaniques de France et des Pays francophones
Le jardin des graines, Festival des Jardins 2015 - © Ériic Sander
Le jardin des graines, Festival des Jardins 2015 - © Éric Sander
Le jardin des graines, Festival des Jardins 2015 - © Éric Sander
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