Upcoming reopening of the botanical trial garden

The Agdal botanical trial garden (Rabat) will soon reopen its doors to the public after redevelopment works that required a budget of around 50 million dirhams (MDH), announced the garden's curator, Khalid Arsalane.The inclusion of certain slow-growing plants in the garden's design is the reason for the delay recorded in the opening of these grounds, which constitute a scientific and ecological space par excellence, indicated Mr. Arsalane in a statement to the MAP, noting that this relaxation space houses more than 600 ornamental and fruit-bearing woody species of diverse origins: local, tropical, subtropical, and desert.Planted in the heart of the capital, the trial garden has, since its creation in 1914, constituted a testing laboratory participating in the development of botanical sciences and the preservation of the environment and biodiversity. The rehabilitation of this space will…