The Jardin d'altitude du Haut Chitelet (1.5 hectares) is a botanical garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

 specializing in high-altitude plants, maintained by the Jardin botanique du Montet

Jardin botanique du Montet

The Jardin botanique du Montet , sometimes also called the Jardin botanique de Nancy, is a major botanical garden operated by the Conservatoire et Jardins Botaniques de Nancy...

 and the Conservatoire et Jardins Botaniques de Nancy. It is located at about 1220 metres altitude on the Col de la Schlucht, about 1 km south of Xonrupt-Longemer

Xonrupt-Longemer

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, Vosges

Vosges

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, Lorraine

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, France

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, and open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

The garden was first established in 1903 by Professor Camille Brunotte of the Nancy-Université

Nancy-Université

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, and grew from 120 species in 1904 to 800 species in 1914, but unfortunately was destroyed in World War I

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. In 1954 the Office national des forêts donated a second plot of 11 hectares to the university to restart the garden. Plantings began in 1966 with the new garden opening in 1970. It has subsequently been named a Jardin Remarquable by the ministry of culture.

Today the garden contains more than 2700 plant varieties with a particular focus on the Vosges

Vosges

Vosges is a French department, named after the local mountain range. It contains the hometown of Joan of Arc, Domrémy.-History:The Vosges department is one of the original 83 departments of France, created on February 9, 1790 during the French Revolution. It was made of territories that had been...

 and the mountains of France, but containing plants from mountainous regions of America

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, Japan

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, China

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, the Himalayas

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, the Caucasus

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, Siberia

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, and New Zealand

New Zealand

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. Plants are arranged geographically.