The Jardin ethnobotanique d'Eyne, also called the Jardin de la Vallée, 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 ethnobotany

Ethnobotany

Ethnobotany is the scientific study of the relationships that exist between people and plants....

. It is located at the Maison de la Vallée, avinguda de Cerdanya, Eyne

Eyne

Eyne is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.-References:**...

, Pyrénées-Orientales

Pyrénées-Orientales

Pyrénées-Orientales is a department of southern France adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. It also surrounds the tiny Spanish enclave of Llívia, and thus has two distinct borders with Spain.- History :...

, Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the 27 regions of France. It comprises five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean sea on the other side.-Geography:The region is...

, France

France

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

Today's garden was created on the site of the farm's earlier vegetable garden. It now contains a representative collection of plants local to the Pyrenees, including trees, flowers, and useful plants, arranged in groupings according to the typical altitude at which the plants grow.