Jurassica Jardin Botanique

The botanical garden, one of the oldest in Switzerland, is domestic to an outstanding range of roses, cacti and carnivorous plants. The botanical collections are supplied in thematic greenhouses, recreating a number awesome environments range assured. The fantastic outside area accommodates flower and herb gardens with regular plant species from the Jura place.

In the springtime, the flowering Irises provide an experience of uncommon beauty that need to not be missed. The botanical garden of Porrentruy, created in 1798 at the injunction of Paris after the annexation of the Helvetic Republic by way of France and the accession of Porrentruy to the rank of departmental capital, appears a number of the oldest botanical gardens of Switzerland. The lawn is now an imperative a part of the Jurassica Museum.

After many setbacks, a primary seeding try was made inside the spring of 1799 underneath the impetus of Antoine Lemane, then a professor at the Ecole Centrale, presently a cantonal high college. It gets some 240 forms of seeds from the National Museum of Natural History of Paris and arranges them among the homes according to plans of Bernard de Jussieu.