Garden of the plants of Angers

The garden of the plants of Angers is a city park and professional flowerbed situated on Place Pierre Mendes France, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. It is open every day without charge. The garden was first settled in 1777 by Doctor Luthier de La Richerie, originator of the Societe des Botanophiles, as a novice's professional flowerbed because of Anger's first such garden, kept up by the Faculty of Medicine around 1740–1750. Its first area was on the Chateau Gontier and Bressigny streets, close to the present lament Beclard, however that site demonstrated excessively little and its rental excessively unsure. The city bought the grounds of the Saint-Samson church right away thereafter, and combined them with the greenhouse, with the outcome pronounced national property in 1792.

By 1811 the garden contained in excess of 2,000 plants organized in two areas: the School of Botany in the lower part and accumulations of outside trees and seed-bearing plants in the upper. It additionally contained an orangery flanked by two nurseries. The garden was further reached out in 1834, and in the late 19th century the School of Botany bit by bit exchanged to the institute of drug, where it frames the present Jardin botanique de la Faculte de Pharmacie d'Angers. The rest of the garden was totally redesigned in 1901– 1905 by noted scene draftsman Edouard Andre, well known for his parks in Monte Carlo and Montevideo; the present current garden is in his English style with a falling stream.