Jean Massart Experimental Garden

Belgium


This 5-hectare garden in the Forêt de Soignes (about a 40-minute drive from Brussels) features a wonderful collection of 300 medicinal plants, with a section on evolution, an aboretum and a section given over to wold flowers.


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