The history of the Jaÿsinia botanical garden
The Jaÿsinia garden owes its name to its designer Marie-Louise Cognac-Jaÿ, who founded the department stores of La Samaritaine in Paris with her husband. Originally from Samoëns, she decided to build this prestigious alpine botanical garden on the hill where she led her goats as a child and offered it to her hometown in 1906. Since 1936, the garden has been under the direction of the History Museum of Paris who founded a botanical laboratory there with a herbarium where a lot of research is carried out.
A bucolic stroll through the Jaÿsinia garden
The Jaÿsinia Alpine Botanical Garden is laid out on steeply sloping limestone terrain with an 80-metre drop and covers more than 3,700 hectares and all at an altitude of 800 metres. The garden meanders through 3 km of paths and offers its tens of thousands of visitors each year a panorama of mountain plants from the 5 continents. The Jaÿsinia garden brings together 8000 plants divided into 4500 species and varieties.
The Alpine Botanical Garden charms visitors and invites them into a natural setting inspired by romantic English gardens. 8 regions of the world reveal their treasures in as many sectors and the flora of the Himalayas, China, Japan and the Alps are the subject of particular attention. It is also divided into ecological sectors: peat bog, marsh, waterfront as well as a granite sector.
Within the Jaÿsinia alpine botanical garden, you will also travel according to the surprising scents of certain trees or plants and you will also discover flowers with astonishing colors.
So that this walk is more refined and enhances the various universes of Jaÿsinia, fountains, waterfalls, ponds and marshes have been installed from a source of water diverted through pipes dug by hand in the mountain.
Visit the Jaÿsinia Alpine Botanical Garden
The Jaÿsinia garden in Samoëns can be visited free of charge every day from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. from May 1 to October 30 and from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. from November 1 to April 30. It is also possible to attend guided tours by booking in advance by phone or email. An introduction to botany is also offered by a garden technician upon paid registration. Note that the garden is closed during snowfall in order to preserve the plantations under the snow cover.
The Jaÿsinia garden in Samoëns is a real haven of peace where you come to relax when you stay in Samoëns.
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