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The Prafrance Bamboo Grove (French: Bambouseraie de Prafrance) is a privately owned park and botanical garden on a 34-hectare estate in Gard, which contains, among others, numerous species of bamboo that were planted by Eugêne Mazel starting in 1856.
Eugène Mazel was a businessman who had made his fortune trading spices imported directly from Asia and was passionate about botany.
Thanks to his wealth and business ventures, he was able to bring plants unknown at the time to Europe from distant lands. In 1856, Mazel bought the Prafrance estate to fulfill his dream of establishing a bamboo plantation.
The location of Bambuseria de Prafrance is a valley basin, whose bottom is made up of Quaternary alluvial deposits and whose walls are formed by limestone and granite from various periods.
This place has a Mediterranean climate; Prafrance receives an average of 1100 mm of water per year, but the water regime can be irregular, with torrential storms or droughts, so the park was equipped with permanent irrigation canals, whose length exceeds 5 km.
This botanical garden is listed in the "Supplementary Inventory" of "Monument Historique (France)".
During our tour we can enjoy the small Dragon Valley, a splendid Japanese-style Zen garden; the “bambusarium”, with its many species of bamboo; the Mazel greenhouses, with their fragrant plants and exotic flowers; and the water garden, with its koi carp, water lilies and lotuses.
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