Herboretum

Scientists regularly come to The Herboretum to make an inventory and count the plant and animal species present on the estate, as true indicators of biodiversity.
These inventories are very precious to evaluate the evolution of biodiversity.

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The Gardens, Ambassadors of Biodiversity

The 5 Ecologic Gardens


The Orchid Ash tree garden

This forest habitat stands on a calcareous soil, structured by the presence of ash trees and shelters a shrubbery of viburnum and honeysuckle under which live in the herbaceous layer the plants specific to that environment : black bryony, hellebore, etc. and some scarce orchids (fly orchid) without forgetting the stinking iris.

Lady Orchid (Orchis purpurea Huds.)

Stinking Iris (Iris foetidissima L. )

Fly Orchid (Ophrys insectifera L.)

Ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior L.)

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