École Du Breuil
Route de la Ferme - Bois de Vincennes 75012 Paris
The 10 ha of the garden, combined with the 13 ha of the arboretum, offer the school one of the largest horticultural areas entirely devoted to teaching. The arboretum, one of the four sites of the Jardin Botanique de Paris, as well as the school garden are the main support for teaching. The school grounds are labeled "ÉcoJardin" and "Jardin remarquable".
The thematic gardens: Contemporary rose garden, rock garden, perennial gardens (mixed-borders and systematic), landscaped garden, shrub collection (fruticetum), orchard, walled vegetable garden, hot greenhouses, a collection of seasonal plants that combine bulbs and biennials in spring, and more than 1,000 varieties of flowering and foliage plants in summer.
In a natural environment, the arboretum of Paris presents 650 species of deciduous and coniferous, different environments including a wetland and a limestone meadow.
These educational spaces house remarkable plant collections, labelled, accessible to the public free of charge.
Tags
Jardin remarquable, Édifice scolaire et éducatif, Espace naturel, parc, jardin
Access
By the RER A direction Boissy Saint Léger, get off at 10' of Nation at the station Joinville-Le-Pont and follow the indication Hippodrome de Vincennes, once on the road of the Pyramid, enter on the right by the gate of the garden/ By metro and bus: Château de Vincennes, line 1 and take bus 112 to the Carrefour de Beauté stop. At the crossroads turn right onto the Farm road, at the roundabout turn left onto the pyramid road to find the entrance to the garden. 2 new bus lines 77 and 201: stop Ecole Du Breuil/ En vélib: station 12128 - ROUTE DE LA PYRAMIDE- ECOLE DU BREUIL 33 bornettes, Pyramide just in front of the entrance to the garden/ By car: highway A4 - from Paris exit at Joinville-Le-Pont then 2nd traffic light on the left (parking spaces along the Route de la Pyramide). Due to the Vigipirate plan, the entrance to the school and the garden is done by the road of the Pyramid in front of the entrance of the arboretum
