Primavera 2025, the festival of rare plants!

[Press release] - Published on February 20, 2025 in Press room

On Sunday March 23, 2025, until 6pm, Montpellier's Jardin des Plantes will host the ^20th edition of "Primavera". To mark the occasion, Montpellier's festival of plants and spring returns with its conferences and stands in defense of biodiversity. It's an opportunity to learn more in the exceptional setting of France's oldest botanical garden.

An annual rendezvous for botany enthusiasts

Since 2004, the annual Primavera event (open to all) has attracted an average of 6,000 to 8,000 visitors. The event will also be an opportunity to meet and talk to professionals at nursery stands featuring vegetable, aromatic, medicinal, indoor and succulent plants, among others. This year, no fewer than 50 nurserymen from all over southern France, 12 environmental associations, 1 specialist publisher and 4 artists will be present.

Program of the day's conferences

• 14h00 : "In search of the agriculture and forests of the past: an archaeobotanical investigation". by Jérôme ROS, CNRS researcher at the Montpellier Institute of Evolutionary Sciences
• 15h00 : "Faced with aridity, the power of the tree". - Moroccan and peasant inspirations for agroforestry by Geneviève Michon, ethnobotanist, director of research emeritus at IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement. 
• 16h00 : "Boissier de Sauvages and Linné, a thirty-year friendship" by Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand, Director Emeritus of the Jardin des Plantes. 

A few words about Jardin des plantes Montpellier

The Jardin des Plantes is the oldest jewel in the crown of the Faculty of Medicine. The complementary nature of these institutions stems from a common objective: the knowledge, exaltation and preservation of living things - human beings in the case of the Faculty of Medicine, the plant world in the case of the Botanical Garden.

In 2022, Montpellier's Jardin des Plantes was awarded the "Remarkable Garden" label by the French Ministry of Culture, which distinguishes gardens and parks, whether public or private, of cultural, aesthetic, historical or botanical interest. In 2022, it also received a 3.4 million euro grant from the FDJ as part of Stéphane Bern's heritage mission (an initiative to safeguard numerous emblematic sites in France) to fully restore the Maison de l'Intendance.