Prenons-en de la graine Les grainetiers : Marc VATINEL, Cécile PINON and Danielle ROOSE France Version française

Here is an experimental garden on the mobility of seeds. It highlights their power of dispersal, a key criteria for the survival of plant species. The garden has been submitted to the forces and movements of nature : wind, rain, the intervention of animals, of man…
The space is divided into four corridors, each illustrating a principle in dissemination. At the entrance of each corridor, seeds particular to that section are at your
disposal to experiment freely with.
The back of the site opens out into a fifth garden: the random garden, where all types of dispersal are represented.
Finally, the treasures of the seeds exhibits, in glass balls, seeds that are remarkable for their name, their shape, their colour or their history.

Garden's plants Arctium lappa Bromus sterilus Circaea lutetiana Crataegus monogyna Daucus carota Dipsacus fullonum Elymus arenarius Epilobium parviflorum Eupatorium cannabinum Foeniculum vulgare Galium aparine Geum urbanum Heracleum mantegazzianum Humulus japonicus Miscanthus floridulus Orlaya grandiflora Onopordum acanthium Pasticana sativa Pyracantha coccinea Rosa canina Salix viminalis Silybum marianum Solidago gigantea Taraxacum officinale Tragopogon pratensis

Garden created with the support of the Groupe La Poste, of Vilmorin, the Institut Botanique of Montpellier and of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles.

To contact the team : grainetiers@yahoo.fr