Jardin botanique de la Bastide, Botanical garden in La Bastide district, Bordeaux, France.
The Jardin Botanique de la Bastide is a botanical garden in the La Bastide district featuring sections for aquatic plants, cultivation fields, and greenhouses displaying regional species. The spaces showcase both wild and cultivated plants managed according to ecological practices.
Designed by landscape architect Catherine Mosbach as an innovative garden, it opened in 2003 as a complement to the older Jardin botanique de Bordeaux across the Garonne. Its design won the 2003 Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize and the 2007-2008 "Bâtiment culturel" award, and a display about it featured at the 2005 reopening of New York's MoMA.
The shared garden (jardin partagé) is run with the association Les Jardins d'Aujourd'hui: volunteers and gardeners tend experimental plots and original crops, demonstrating ecological, low-cost techniques such as vermicomposting. The garden's international herbarium code is BORD, and it is a member of BGCI.
The garden lies along the Allée Jean Giono on the right bank of the Garonne, in the Bastide district, and is open every day with no entrance fee. The water garden covers 1,250 m², and the eleven Aquitaine landscapes are laid out around a main axis that stands for the river. Allow time to walk the 450 m path along the oak palisade.
The garden grows old grain varieties like wheat, oats, flax, and millet that are rarely seen today. These nearly forgotten crops show visitors how the region's farming and food once looked.
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