Le jardin des Plantes

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Hôtel de Senlis

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Breakfast in the ancient underground cavern of the hotel
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breakfast at the hotel Senlis

After breakfast, we visit a doctor, who prescribes flu medicine to Tammy which makes her able to visit Paris more on our last day in France.

Le jardin des Plantes

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Green and purple sweet potato leaves used as ornamentals
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One of the themed areas of the botanical garden
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species are grouped by family
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Plant in the morning glory / sweet potato family
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Canna lillies
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Orange-tinted leaves - Canna lilly
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variegated pink-green ground cover is used as a medicine in Taiwan
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French lavender
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Bright purple
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A stately rosemary bush
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Bronze fennel gone to seed
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Lupine
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Sage (for cooking)
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Salvia
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Salvia
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Salvia
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Mediterrannean spurge
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More sage
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Pepper vine in the tropical greenhouse
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looking up from inside the greenhouse
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Podocarpus costalis
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Cacao fruit
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The understory
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Monkey's medicine
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A basil from the African rainforest
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Piper capensis
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Wild bee hotel
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Wild bee hotel
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All wild bees are welcome at the bee hotel
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About hives
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About hives and apiculture
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Bee keepers and hives
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The hives and their inhabitants
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hive diseases and predators
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hives and their products
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Local wild bee
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moorhen in the lotus pond
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Raggedy raven
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Sriped bumblebee and salvia
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Bee-loving salvia plant
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Salvia sp annuals gone to seed
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A medicinal salvia from central Asia

The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Located on the left bank of the river Seine, it covers an area of 28 hectares. The garden was in 1626 as a medicinal herb garden and was originally known as the Jardin du Roi.

The garden maintains a botanical school, which trains botanists, constructs demonstration gardens, and exchanges seeds to maintain biotic diversity. About 4500 plants are arranged by family on a one hectare plot. Three hectares are devoted to horticultural displays of decorative plants. Specialized buildings, such as a large Art Deco winter garden, and Mexican and Australian hothouses display regional plants, not native to France.

The grounds of the Jardin des Plantes includes four galleries of the Muséum: the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, the Mineralogy Museum, the Paleontology Museum and the Entomology Museum.

Keywords: flower, plant, sign
People: Anne-Marie, George, Philip, Tammy
Locations: Paris
Date: 2016:10:05