Europe at the heart of the Arboretum

Name: Europe at the heart of the Arboretum
Start: 2018-06-02T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-06-03T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Arboretum de la Petite Loiterie

Guided tour amongst trees and shrubs with names including a European country or region : from Hungarian oak to Serbia spruce, via Cyprus cedar and Germany myriary!

2 and 3 June 2018Passed

Conditions

Guided tour only, starting at 3pm and 6pm : no free tour. Be on time! No reservation needed. Full-price: 9€; reduced fare: 7,5€ (students, unemployed persons, RSA beneficiaries); free for children under 12

Arboretum de la Petite Loiterie

The walk in the arboretum will allow you to visit the many species bearing names including a country or region of Europe: linden of Holland, laurel of Portugal, Spanish fir, Hungarian oak, fir of Greece, cedar of Cyprus, Dutch elm, European larch, German myrtle, Serbian spruce, Bosnian pine, Italian poplar, Georgia dwarf almond, Swiss willow, Finnish birch, Swedish birch, English tamarisk ...

Comments will focus more generally on the geographical origin of species, not always corresponding to their names! For instance, horse chestnut, named "marronnier d'Inde" in French, has a very European origin, as it comes from the Balkans ...

About the location

Arboretum de la Petite Loiterie

Le Sentier, Monthodon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

This park of botanical interest presents a very wide pallet of ligneous botanical species, that is trees and shrubs. For the pleasure of the observation and the knowledge, the arboretum was conceived(designed) so as to learn you to look otherwise(differently) at a tree and to recognize it.
The approach(initiative) of plantation is completely original, because trees and shrubs having resembling sheets(leaves) are grouped(included) in the same zones. It allows to differentiate better the often confused(merged) sorts(species), and, inside the same sort(species), to compare various variants.
This pleasant landscaped garden is the ideal site to get acquainted with all the techniques of interview(maintenance) and sustainable management, and in particular size, an experimental site of which it is.
More than 1900 sorts(species) and varieties of trees and shrubs planted since 1995\. The 18,5 hectares of the arboretum include 3,5 ha of meadows and wet zones, 4 ha of wood and 2,5 ha of moor. 2 km of rural hedges(hurdles) and woody bands(strips) are a hangout for the wildlife.