Seine-Maritime: a wild garden in freedom

2023-06-09T04:23:25.092Z

Highlights: In Normandy, a botany enthusiast has created a park where he lets the flora grow and prosper. The Karlostachys Jungle Garden, in Eu (Seine-Maritime), is a stone's throw from the sea. Its creator, Charles Boulanger, presents himself as a "plant hunter" He has been animating this park since his adolescence, under the gaze of parents who were initially perplexed. These species, drawn from the high mountains to comply with the Norman weather, grow freely on 13 hectares.

In Normandy, a botany enthusiast has created a park where he lets the flora grow and prosper.

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Do not go against nature. This is the philosophy of the Karlostachys Jungle Garden, in Eu (Seine-Maritime), a stone's throw from the sea. Its creator, Charles Boulanger, presents himself as a "plant hunter". He has been animating this park since his adolescence, under the gaze of parents who were initially perplexed. Later, from his travels in China, Brazil, Vietnam, Australia or New Zealand, he brought back thousands of seeds, something now very difficult. These species, drawn from the high mountains to comply with the Norman weather, grow freely on 13 hectares, 3 of which are open to visitors. "This is the sine qua non condition for protecting biodiversity," says Charles Boulanger. Do we know that intensive cultivation, in some places, has caused the disappearance or removal of 75% of bird varieties? And I'm not talking about bees or many other species." It is inexhaustible on these aggressions that plants undergo ...

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