Primavera: rare plant sales exhibition and conferences

Join us on Sunday March 23, 2025 from 10:00 am on boulevard Henri IV in Montpellier, for the 20th edition of this annual celebration of rare plants and the protection of biodiversity in the unique setting of the Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier, the oldest Jardin des Plantes in France.

History

It all started with a simple question from a trainee: why not organize a plant festival?

The first opus was created on Sunday March 20, 2005, as a small gathering for insiders. Now, 20 years later, it's an annual event for rare plant lovers and environmentalists alike!

Today

Nursery gardeners, environmental associations, specialist book publishers, visual artists, agricultural schools and lecturers await you at the Jardin des Plantes for this major event.

With some fifty nurserymen and fifteen associations, you'll be spoilt for choice!

Local or exotic plants, cacti or epiphytes, food or dye, for the balcony, indoors or in the garden? Look no further than Primavera, but only for one day a year!

67 stands

This year, no fewer than 50 nurserymen from all over the south of France, including 5 newcomers, are on hand for you, along with 12 environmental associations, 1 specialist publisher and 4 artists.

3 lectures (Institute of Botany)

Ask for the conference program! Each lecture lasts 45 minutes.

• 2:00 pm: "In search of the agriculture and forests of the past: an archaeobotanical survey" by Jérôme ROS, CNRS Research Fellow at Montpellier's Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution.
• 3:00 pm: "Faced with aridity, the power of the tree" - Moroccan and peasant inspirations for agroforestry by Geneviève Michon, Ethnobotanist, Emeritus Research Director at IRD (Institut de Research pour le Développement).
• 4:00 pm: "Boissier de Sauvages and Linné, a thirty-year friendship" by Thierry LAVABRE-BERTRAND, Director Emeritus of the Jardin des Plantes.

Events close at 6pm.