Botanical garden of nice small (it occupies three acres) and is quite young, the first plants were planted in 1983, the seeds gave the local Museum of natural history. To the public garden was opened in 1991. Now his collection includes more than 3,500 species of plants. The location of the garden is very attractive: it is located on a hill overlooking the magnificent panorama of the mouth of the river var, bordering on nice on the West, and Esterel near Cannes.

Basically, the garden is the plants living in a Mediterranean climate, not only on the shores of the Mediterranean sea, but in California, Chile, South Africa, Australia. Here are rightly proud of the collection of agaves – lovers of succulents will be happy to inspect many types of these plants. An important part of the garden is a section dedicated to the sage: medicinal shrub presented here widely, his inflorescences vary from the usual blue and white to orange and purple (in African species). Another collection in the Botanical garden highlight, and cypress. Here the cypresses from Australia and New Caledonia.

The garden sloping down from the hill terraces is divided into eight zones with different groups of plants: aromatic, medicinal, poisonous. Visitors passing through those zones, admire the trees and flowers in their natural habitat. Something where you can see a broken or dead branches, but it should come as no surprise – the staff of the garden learning about plants in their ordinary life.

The entrance to the garden is free. It also distributed for free by visual materials showing the thumbnails of the 35 protected plants found in nice and its surroundings (for example, the Tulip Clusius, carob tree or sea onion). This is a useful initiative helps tourists in time to identify protected plant and not to disrupt the precious flower, violating the law.