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Harcourt Arboretum is an arboretum owned and run by the University of Oxford.It is a satellite of the university's botanic garden in the city of Oxford, England.The arboretum itself is located six miles (ten kilometres) south of Oxford on the A4074 road, near the village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire, [1] and comprises some 150 acres (60 hectares). [2]
The Arboretum d'Harcourt (11 hectares) is a historic arboretum located on the grounds of the 14th-century Château d'Harcourt in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France. The arboretum is one of the oldest in France, dating to 1802 when Louis-Gervais Delamare acquired the castle and its grounds. He introduced pine cultivation on 200 hectares.
First laid out in 1946, this planting is a classic example of the traditional English herbaceous border. Unlike other areas of the Garden, this border relies entirely on herbaceous perennials. These die back to a rootstock each winter before bursting back into life again in spring and flowering through the summer.
The Harcourt Arboretum, part of the tree and plant collection of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, occupies part of what were the grounds of Nuneham House. The landscaped parkland and pleasure gardens surrounding the house are listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens .
Gardens in England is a link page for any garden, botanical garden, arboretum or pinetum open to the public in England. The National Gardens Scheme also opens many small, interesting, private gardens to the public on one or two days a year for charity.
House of Harcourt, a British and French noble house; Collège d'Harcourt, in Paris, renamed the Lycée Saint-Louis in 1820; Harcourt House, Edmonton, an art gallery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Harcourt House, London, Cavendish Square, London, a building; USS Harcourt (1864), a Union Navy tugboat in the American Civil War
Botanical garden; List of botanical gardens; The United Kingdom has a strong tradition of decorative gardening, and there are many well known gardens in the United Kingdom that are not botanical gardens.
The Château d'Harcourt, situated in the commune of Harcourt in the Eure department of France, is the cradle of the Harcourt family. The castle is one of the best preserved castles in the country and contains the oldest arboretum in France. Panoramic view of the Château d'Harcourt