Just outside the center of Rouen, the Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Garden) is a garden for all the year. The 25-acre park celebrates the spring season with irises and tumbling wisteria, camellias and rhododendrons. In summer the air is full of the delicate scent of hundreds of roses; autumn sees wonderful foliage colors and gold chrysanthemums. In winter, you can plunge into the tropical hothouses for more exotic plants and flowers.
There’s a picnic area, somewhere children can play and this being France, even an area reserved for games of boules.
Botanical Gardens, Rouen, Normandy
114 ter, Ave des Martyrs de la ResistanceTel.: 00 33 (0)2 43 18 21 30
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Free admission
