The Botanic garden

About

The Nantes Botanic Garden covers 7 hectares of green space in the centre of town.

It’s home to more than 10,000 species and more than 5000 flowers are planted each season. Its greenhouses have a surface area of 800 square metres. It’s been presented with the “Remarkable Garden” award and is among the four leading botanical gardens in France.

The collections have developed and specialised over the last 150 years. It’s both a scientific garden and a garden for leisure and houses internationally recognised reference collections. It’s especially celebrated for its camellia collection (which is unique in France), its cultivation of epiphytic plants in semi-natural settings and for its concern for the re-introduction of rare species. An example of this is the wild Sylvestre tulip, which disappeared in the 1970s and was reintroduced in 2010 into the region’s vineyards.

Its great beauty in all seasons and its remarkable specimens (Hectot’s Magnolia, American tulip tree and more recently a Wollemi pine, etc.) make the Botanical Garden a major tourist attraction in Nantes, visited every year by more than 2 million visitors.
The Botanical garden was recognized as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence in 2016 by

The International Camellia Society.

Venue details & map

District 1
Adress Place Charles Leroux

+33 2 40 41 65 15

jardins@mairie-nantes.fr

Facilites & accessibility

playground equipments14

Carousel

Shelter

Picnic tables

Drinking water

barbecue

Restaurant

Disabled toilets

Toilets

Enclosed garden

Paddling pools

Spray misters

No dogs allowed

Animals

Garden games by age group

2 - 6 ans → Module + Spring

3 - 12 ans → Module + Other

3 - 14 ans → Module + Swing

5 - 14 ans → Climbing net + Climb

6 - 12 ans → Swing

Depodepo, at the plant playground

a perennial work by Claude Ponti

The exhibition greenhouse (accessible with a code), the Canary Island greenhouse and the Palm Tree Island greenhouse (free access) are all accessible to wheelchair users.
The park itself is accessible, but a slight slope means that the people with reduced mobility should begin the visit at the Sophie Trebuchet entrance rather than entrance by the railway station.

More info

Opening times

Today Friday

during Spring season opening 8:30 and closing 18:30. They are the first opening / last closing
Opening times type 1
Schedule for Greenhouses tours

15:00

Opening times: Free access greenhouse

12:30 - 18:00

Opening times: Reception

12:30 -17:00

Visiting the garden

- The park itself is accessible, but a slight slope means that the people with reduced mobility should begin the visit at the Sophie Trebuchet entrance rather than entrance by the railway station.
- Early visits: to the north of the garden
- The greenhouses are accessible for wheelchair users.

Free access

Without a guide

Three greenhouses are open for the public to visit without a guide:

• The Exhibition greenhouse, housing tropical plants from the Botanic Garden’s and Great Blottereau’s collections.
• The Canary Island greenhouse
• The Palm Tree Island greenhouse

Access codes are available for the Exhibition and Canary Island greenhouses. Please ask at the reception.

Audio-guided

1- download the app for free
2- Search for Nantes to find tours of Nantes parks and gardens.
2- Click on the arrow in the top right-hand corner of the screen to find out where you are in the garden.
3- Enjoy the tour and accompanying games, even offline.
- Free WIFI access is available in the lower part of the garden.