Informations pratique

Access

La Bambouseraie de Prafrance

30140 GÉNÉRARGUES
(2 km from Anduze)
Région Languedoc-Roussillon.

Contact

Owner : Muriel NEGRE

Tel. : +33 4 66 61 70 47

Fax : +33 4 66 61 94 94

bambou@bambouseraie.fr

Services & opening times

Open from 1^st March to 15^th November 7 days a week all day long from 9.30 a.m., closing time variable, according to the season.

Guided tour (optional) of part of the circuit
Free self-guiding posts in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch.
Free car park.
Dogs admitted on leash
Accessible to the disabled
Snack bar in July and August
Sales nursery
shops

La Bambouseraie d'Anduze

Recognised as "accessible to the disabled" and "remarkable gardens"

PRAFRANCE BAMBOO FOREST : an exotic botanical garden in the heart of Europe

The botanical originality of the Bambouseraie, created in 1856 by Eugène Mazel, a passionate lover of the plant world, is provided by bamboo plants, not forgetting a host of exotic plants and remarkable trees.

MAGIC AND UNIQUE

This forest of giant bamboo plants unique in Europe, with centuries-old trees, exceptional landscaping developments such as the Bambusarium, the plant labyrinth, the water garden, the Laotian village and the magnificent Victorian glass houses that Eugène Mazel built ; all these carry visitors off to far-away countries.

Erik Borja, a landscape artist, recently created a surprising Japanese-style garden where you can enjoy strolling : Dragon Valley. It fits into not only the Bambouseraie but also into the Cevenol landscape, and more than one visitor has found it surprising. The Dragon Valley effects are created by manipulating plants and minerals to complement each other, giving a major role to spring flowers and autumnal colours.

Remaining faithful to the spirit of Eugène Mazel, a visionary, kind-hearted creator, the Bambouseraie has kept a human, botanical and cultural outlook as a garden whose vocation is also to bring people closer together, facilitate meeting and exchange and link information and passions.

This arboretum, a place of culture and exchange unique in Europe, has a very large number of plant species, which collections are continually being added to as time goes by.

Evénements

• From 1^st March to 15^th November 2008 : JAPANESE INSPIRATION FOR A PLANT-LADEN ATMOSPHERE

  Permanent exhibition in the Mazel glasshouses : “Japanese ambience” imagined and created by the Bambouseraie staff.

• From 15^th April to 15^th November 2008 : JAPANESE INSPIRATION FOR A PLANT-LADEN ATMOSPHERE

  Exhibition of the Bambouseraie Japanese maple collection

• From 1^st April to 31^st October 2008 : LAND ART, POETRY AND MUSIC

  Land Art exhibition. The three artists who have been invited this year are Emmanuel Fillot, Frédéric-Jacques Temple, writer, and Régine Lehmann, the latter two playing a part in the former’s work.

• From 19^th April to 15^th November : A SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE

  After the success of the “Raft of the tree-tops”, Gilles Ebersolt, architect, (Océan Vert Association) now proposes a new way to occupy the canopy with the use of the aerostatic possibilities of the hovercraft for tree-top installations.

  Bamboo, whose hollow stalk is divided into different compartments, meets the structural and construction requirements for auto-tension.

• 21^st September 2008 (National Heritage Weekend) : JAPAN – EXPRESSIONS OF 150 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP

  Sunday 21^st September : demonstrations of Kyudo and Kendo, martial arts, in partnership with two associations – between 11H00 and 12H30 in the morning and between 15H00 and 16H30 in the afternoon

  Exceptional entrance fee (to the garden) : Adult : 5,50 € - Child from 6 to -12 years : 3,70 €