The greenhouses of the city of Toulouse by Klod5
At 19, Boulevard de la Marne, in the district of Rangueil, very close to the channel, be an extraordinary garden : The greenhouses of the city of Toulouse that spread on more of 2 hectares... The gardeners of the city of Toulouse produce here, every year more than 450 000 plants, that decorate the parklands, gardens and round points of the comune. Today 2156 modern greenhouse m2 cohabits with the historic greenhouses. Ventilation, shadiness, ambient heating and heating in the pots are adjusted automatically by computer in each of the quatres celules : the shop, the greenhouse of multiplication, the hot greenhouse, the moderate greenhouse. A part of the greenhouses date of 1887. They have been constructed by architect Gustave Eiffel and, are registered to the inventory of the Historic Heritage. The greenhouses have abors been constructed to the Garden of the Plants, then, they have been displaced in the beginning of the century on this land bought in 1901 to lady widowed Desmouilles, a horticulturist. In the central part the palmarium permits to welcome big topics, it is also on the whole the central point of the circulation of the historic greenhouses. A collection of 5 000 tropical or subtropical plants permits to decorate the numerous demonstrations (fairs, let's salt, convention, universities...) that take place in the city.The greenhouses of the City of Toulouse are once open to the public per year: in the month of April, one weekend, the doors are open to permit the discovery of the work of the gardeners, and this set of old greenhouses of exception.
