Our first acquaintance with the Jardin des Plantes was in 1993, celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary, staying in a hotel nearby. Whereas Luxembourg is more a pleasure park, the Jardin des Plantes is organized around more scientific and educational aims. On the grounds are assorted natural history museums and humongous greenhouses. The plant collections are all over the map, sometimes historical, sometimes scientific, sometimes taxonomical. Not your typical garden. But interesting and edifying nonetheless. And we have been back many times.
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| What our neolithic ancestors gathered |
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| Moving right along, grains |
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| Iron age, definitely grains |
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| OK, I get off-script now and then...coriander |
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| Not knee-high, not the 4th of July |
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| Arthur E. Choke |
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| Kiwi; at this point I think we are all off-script |
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| Canadian Thistle? |
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| Bugs; not pictured, the large division on medicinal plants |
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Moving right along...center field is lined with poppies of every imaginable
variety...all of them painstakingly labeled... |
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| Thus (one of the several museums in the background) |
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| Finally, a rose bush |
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| Didn't get the name of the rose |
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| Smelling the roses |
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| One of the greenhouses |
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| Art deco |
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Another huge specialized garden: botanical taxonomy...it's a long
story, as the sign says... |
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A portion thereof; interestingly, to me, while much of the Jardin des
Plantes is about evolution, the taxonomy section here is largely
morphological, not evolutionary...hmmm... |
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Very large, old tree (Oriental Plane, planted 1785), among
France's Arbres Remarquables; seen as we were leaving the jardin |
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We walked back home via the Rue des Ecoles; above, one the the ecoles |
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| Unusual dorsal view of the Cluny Museum |
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