Robin published several books, the first one in 1601 was a catalog of the 1,300 native and exotic species he cultivated (Catalogus stirpium ...).

Robin was responsible for several gardens, including the one that Catherine de' Medici created for the Tuileries Palace.

The small flower garden of the School of Medicine (rue de la Bûcherie) was also entrusted to him from its creation in 1597.

J. Robin had brought many seeds and onions of exotic plants from Holland, which he refused to share.

When the Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants (now Jardin des plantes) was created in 1626, Guy de La Brosse made Vespasien Robin his sub-demonstrator: he thus obtained that Vespasien's father gave to the garden "more than twelve hundred species, which formed the first stock of the School of Botany "[4]