The botanical garden EM Heckel (12,000 m²), also known as the Botanical Garden of Marseille and the Borély Botanical Garden of Marseille , is a municipal botanical gardenlocated in the Borély Park at 48, Avenue Clot Bey, Marseille , Bouches-du-Rhône , Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur , France . It is open daily except Monday; admission fee is charged.
Overview
The garden is Marseille’s fourth botanical garden. Its first was established by Rene of Anjou near the Saint-Victor Abbey as the Botanical Garden of the Carthusians . The second was inaugurated in 1802 by Joséphine de Beauharnais and directed by M. Gouffé of the Court, but disappeared in 1856 to make way for a railway. The garden was then re-established in the Borély Park , on the site of today’s rose garden, but was quickly judged too small by its director, Dr. Edouard Marie Heckel , and in 1913 the garden was relocated and named in his honor.
The garden contains over 3,500 species , arranged in a garden of medicinal plants, a traditional Chinese garden donated by the city of Shanghai in 2004, palmetum (palm garden), garden vines, garden of succulents , Mediterranean garden, and a Japanese garden . Of particular interest is a greenhouse of 300 species of South African flora.
See also
- List of botanical gardens in France
References
- EM Heckel Botanical Garden
- Gralon.net description (English)
- Parks and Gardens in France description (English)
- Documentation Provence entry (French)
- Little Fuck description (English)
- Bloc.com description (French)