The pond is surrounded by a formal garden whilst bordering the rue Guynemer and rue Auguste Comte, the landscaped garden evokes the horticultural anglomania which reined in France at the end of the Ancien R gime and the XIXth century. The content of the floral displays is designed to take account of the successive flowering periods of the various species and is constantly renewed. The large number of statues in the Jardin de Luxembourg make it an open air museum of XIXth sculpture. A gallery of queens and illustrious women around the pond, the Delacoix monument by Dalou in front of the Petit Luxembourg.
People plays boules, chess and bridge.
There is also a beekeeping school with an aviary containing around twenty hives and a puppet theatre.