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Off the coast of Roscoff, the small island of Batz is home to an extraordinary garden hidden behind a thick curtain of trees. Off the coast of Roscoff, the small island of Batz is home to an extraordinary garden hidden behind a thick curtain of trees: palm trees, cacti, southern plants, a Maori plot, a flowering moorland that opens onto the sea and the dunes... At the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of its creator, Georges Delaselle, a Parisian insurer, seemed crazy: how to plant an exotic garden on a windy island where nothing grows? He devoted his life to it. Abandoned for almost thirty years, then rehabilitated and reopened to the public in 1992, the garden was acquired five years later by the Conservatoire du littoral.