Jardin des plantes d'Orléans

The Orléans Jardin des Plantes occupies about 3.5 hectares in the Saint-Marceau district, on the left bank of the Loire. Its origin goes back to 1640, when the Society of Apothecaries set up a garden of medicinal plants on the right bank of the river. It was moved to its present location in 1834.

At that time the orangery and hothouses were built, meant to acclimatise rare plants arriving via the Loire. Part of these old greenhouses, dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, survives today. At the end of the nineteenth century, the garden gradually abandoned scientific study for floral displays.

The garden is today a place for walking and discovery, but also for plant experimentation for the City's green spaces service, which tests new plants and more environmentally friendly maintenance techniques there. It has also hosted, since 1958, the Orléans international rose competition.

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