This series entitled "My Châtillonnais Herbarium" invites you to discover places in our territory with abundant floral biodiversity. It is a question of combining the pleasant with the useful by taking advantage of a walk to learn about or enrich your plant culture.
The flora of the public garden is essentially composed of ornamental trees and shrubs, of which a very high proportion is of exogenous origin (North America, Asia, etc.). This garden adjoined the "Ursuline convent" and then the hospital until 1910. The yews and plane trees, which reach a circumference of more than 2,50 m, are contemporary with these occupations. For a few years, it has been regularly maintained, which does not leave much room for wild plants. However, between 2 passages of the municipal teams, it is not uncommon to see a few asparagus, orchids, primroses appear... And, nature doing its work, we will find spontaneous generations (a hackberry or ailanthus which grow at the foot of a yew), as well as "garden escapes"...
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