Jardin botanique de Neuchâtel

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Switzerland - Neuchatel

Institution Code: NEU

BGCI Member: Yes

About the Jardin botanique de Neuchâtel

This area of 8 ha is both botanical garden and conservatory of natural ecosystems. For example it exists a dry meadow of national importance with rare native plants. Visitors can walk in a rare forest of old oaks and lime-trees.
Since 2014, a new garden of evolution tells the story of the coevolution and symbiosis between flora and other organismus with the help of living plants and fossils.
With a wide range of conferences, events and visits, we carry out each year new temporary exhibitions (2012: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the botany; 2013: flowers of bees; 2019: "tropical rainforests" and "Plants drawings of M. Francis Hallé"; 2020 : "Medicinal plants,knowledge infusion").

Main Address:
Jardin botanique de Neuchâtel
Pertuis du Sault 58
Neuchatel
2000 Switzerland

Telephone: ++41 (0)32 7182350
Fax: ++41 (0)32 7182357
URL: www.jbneuchatel.ch
Primary Email: jardinbotanique.neuchatel@ne.ch

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Blaise Mulhauser
    Curator's Name: Botany : Anne-Laure Maire / Ethnobotany: Elodie Gaille
    Plant Records Officer's Name:
  • Total Staff:
    Horticultural Staff Number: 5
    Educational Staff Number: 2
    Research Staff Number: 3
    Administration Staff Number: 2

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: No
    Status: State: No
    Status: Educational: Yes
    Status: Municipal: Yes
    Status: Satellite: No
    Status: Trust: No
  • Date founded: 1954
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: Yes
    Natural vegetation area: Size: 6 Hectares
  • Landscaped Area: Yes
    Landscaped Area: Size: 2 Hectares
  • Total Area: 8 Hectares
    Latitude: 47.0001
    Longitude: 6.9345
    Annual Rainfall: 900 mm
    Altitude: 545.00 Metres
    Total area of glasshouses: 100 Metres
    Total area of shadehouses: 1000 Metres

Features and Facilities

  • Herbarium: No
    Arboretum: Yes
    Arboretum Size: 1
  • Micropropagation/ Tissue Culture Facilities: No
    Seed Bank: Yes
    Published Plant Catalogue: No
    Computer Plant Record System: Yes
  • Open to public: Yes
    Friends society: Yes
    Retail Outlet: Shop: Yes
    Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: Yes
    Disabled access: Yes
  • Number of Visitors: 60000

Plant Collections

  • Accession Number: 10000
    Cultivation Taxa Num: 3500
  • Special Collections:Sempervivum,Festuca, plants of the Alps and Pyrenees,Medicinal plants,Greenhouses(Madagascar plants, subtropical plants).
  • Invasive Species Monitoring: Yes
    Invasive Species Policy: Yes
    ABS Policy: Yes
    Plant Collection Policy: Yes

Conservation Programmes

  • Conservation Programme: Yes
    Medicinal Plant Programme: Yes
    Ex Situ Conservation Programme: Yes
    Reintroduction Programme: Yes

Research Programmes

  • Biotechnology: No
    Plant Breeding: No
    Conservation - Biology: Yes
    Conservation - Genetics: No
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: No
    Ecology: Yes
    Ecosystem Conservation: Yes
    Education: Yes
    Ethnobotany: Yes
    Exploration: No
    Floristics: Yes
    Horticulture: Yes
    Invasive Species Biology and Control: No
    Molecular Genetics: No
    Pollination Biology: Yes
    Restoration Ecology: Yes
    Seed/Spore Biology: No
    Systematics and Taxonomy: No
    Sustainability: No
    Pharmacology: No
    Agriculture: No
    Land Restoration: No
    Urban Environments: Yes

Education Programmes

  • Visitor/Education Centre: Yes
    Education Signs in Garden: Yes
    Public Lectures/Talks: Yes
    Education Booklets/Leaflets: Yes
    Guided Tours: Yes
    Permanent Public Displays: Yes
    Special Exhibitions: Yes
    Courses for School Children: Yes
    Courses for University/College Students: Yes
    Courses for General Public: Yes
    Education Programme: Yes