Revegetation vouchers and wildlife facilities
Montpellier, awarded the "Ville Nature" label, can help you with your greening project. "Vegetation vouchers" are set up free of charge on registration by the city to meet 5 specific objectives:
- Embellish your street, and transform your neighborhood. All it takes is a small gesture to beautify everyone's daily life. By making the street more colorful or flowery, it's possible to treat yourself to a nearby corner of nature.
- Bonding with your neighbors. Greening your street is also a way of creating a social bond, an opportunity to discover that your neighbor is also concerned by this type of initiative. Making your street greener is great, but doing it together is even better!
- Working for biodiversity. By making your facade or balcony more flowery, you provide food or shelter for many animal species. Nature also has its place in the city.
- Reduce the urban heat island. In the city center, the mercury can soar during periods of extreme heat. Plants absorb water from the ground and return it to the ambient air. An eco-responsible way of cooling the streets.
- Cleaning the air we breathe. Plants act as real air filters. They help reduce air pollution, which is a major health problem for everyone.
Registrations run from January 1 to June 30.
Distributions take place in November, at the appointed meeting place or at municipal greenhouses / Grammont horticultural center.
Montpellier vouchers and schemes
4 types of greening vouchers:
- Microflowering
- Flowering at the foot of trees
- Trees
- Mediterranean hedges
Adopt a voucher
Some vegetation vouchers for micro-flowering are no longer maintained by the people who had requested them (moving house, etc). As a result, spaces intended for a climbing plant are left empty.
The city is therefore offering to adopt these micro-flowerings: this is the "adopt a voucher" scheme.
2 types of wildlife-friendly features:
- The pollinator cube
- The bat lodge
My plant has been stolen. What should I do?
If your plant has been stolen, you must lodge a complaint with a police station, as it is your property.
Once this has been done, call the Landscaping and Biodiversity Department on the number given and send them proof that a complaint has been lodged. If this is your first theft, the municipal greenhouses will check available stocks and may donate a second plant if possible.
I'm moving, what happens to my greening voucher?
If you're moving, please let the Nature, Agroecology and Landscaping Department know by phone or e-mail: dnap@montpellier.fr
We also encourage you to approach your neighbors or a local association to ask them if they'd be willing to take on the upkeep. Be sure to explain both the advantages and the constraints of this scheme.
A question?
Contact the Nature Agroecology and Landscape Department: 04 67 20 99 00
