No need to go to Asia to admire a magnificent giant bamboo forest.
Just go to Générargues (Gard) to get lost in the magnificent Bambouseraie in the Cévennes.
Created more than a century ago by a true enthusiast, this unique garden in Europe offers a complete experience that transports the visitor to the other side of the world.
Between beauty and biodiversity
Built in 1856, this bamboo grove is the work of Eugène Mazel.
This lover of horticulture and natural sciences carried out the first plantations of exotic species from Asia and North America.
Over the years, the collection of plants has only grown to offer visitors today "more than 1000 varieties of bamboo, trees and remarkable plants", indicates the garden's website.
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The site, classified among the “Most beautiful gardens in France”, has been pursuing an ecological policy for several years to
reduce its impact on the environment.
“The Bambouseraie is managed with integrated biological protection (zero phyto)”, it is also specified.
A total experience
On site, visitors can discover this unique landscape made of
century-old giant bamboos
, but also a plant labyrinth, an aquatic garden, Victorian greenhouses, or even a Laotian village.
In 2000, for the Year of the Dragon, landscape artist Erik Borja even created a Japanese-style strolling garden: the Dragon Valley.
“You will be able to admire a beautiful perspective on the marriage of aquatic, mineral and plant elements,” promises the park.
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“La Bambouseraie defends a human, botanical and cultural approach to this garden whose vocation is also to bring together and bring people together, to facilitate meetings, to cross and connect knowledge and passions,” we can say. read on the website of the Most Beautiful Gardens of France.
Listed in the inventory of historic monuments since 2008, it reopened for a new season at the beginning of March.