I'm a French gardener, passionated about all gardens. I live 35 km north from Paris. I have made a small tropical garden with my husband Lucien, who is garden designer. I work as art director for printed advertising.
Damon Ginandes
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Les peintures et sculptures de grande dimension de* Damon Ginandes*.
Per...
La belle fin des tulipes
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L'arrivée des premières journées chaudes marque le déclin des tulipes qui,
après s'être largement épanouies, s'effondrent lamentablement le plus
souvent. M...
The Forest Gives And The Forest Takes Away
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Three and a half years ago the forest coughed up three fur balls and the Spot family entered my life. When the spotlets were grown a year later, Mama Spot to...
Planting The Annual Flowers
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I plant better than 80 annual plantings every year. Some are as simple as
a pair of pots on the front porch. Others involve multple containers, and
in gr...
l’acacia
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(1) L’acacia caffra (1), que l’on trouve dans le sud de l’Afrique, a une
façon bien particulière de se protéger des gros gourmands. Lorsque
l’antilope Kou...
The Old Farm Gate
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One of my first cousins passed away last week, he was far too young. A memory I have of all of us when we were youngsters is of gathering down by the 'old fa...
Sojourn
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Memorial Day Weekend — three days that signal the official beginning of
Summer — is on now … and already ticking away. My first official act is to
get up e...
Etoile de Violette
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...takes flight.
[Boring Blogger news: I have changed the settings for Comments, disabling
Anonymous and Name/Urls. This is to see whether it discourages...
Brèves nouvelles
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Quelques photos trop vite faites cette semaine. Les lecteurs de tous les continents sont au fait du Grand Changement qui a eu lieu dans mon attrape-plante : ...
The most beautiful garden...
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Possibly the most beautiful garden I've ever visited belongs to the Jasmin
& Peter Gentling of Asheville, NC. Among other owners, the home was once
owned...
Quercus phellos, Bad Landscaping and Eminent Domain
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Willow oak (Quercus phellos) is my second favorite oak, live oak (Q. virginiana) being my first. I like the tree for several reasons, primarily because they...
A New Kid Makes Good
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Ordered in late March and planted in April , 'Symphytum 'Axminister Gold'
has already made a statement in the mid spring garden. Though the blooms
are not...
Teucrium hircanicum ‘Paradise Delight’
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Summer-blooming spiky flowering plants under 3 feet. In garden design
parlance, the verticals. We all need some, right? Herbaceous varieties of
salvias a...
Rain, rain
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Endless rain, seemingly, has everything shooting up at amazing speed,
including weeds. Local grasses are in flower, creating a kind of foggy haze
over the ...
Weekend Things
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I can hardly believe that it is Memorial Day weekend! May came and went in
a flash. I am spending my weekend catching up in the garden, writing my
heart ...
The Desert Botanical Garden, Part Two
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Yesterday was Part One of our October 2011 visit to one of the most special
places on earth, the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ. For Part 2
there i...
Snapshots
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These are a few little disposable camera snaps from our inaugural Elmwood
trip last weekend. We got home 6 days ago and I'm still floating...
Bourse aux plantes à Aulnois sur Seille
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Il est des découvertes qui se révèlent être de très agréables surprises.
Dimanche matin en fut une. Direction la Moselle et le château d'Aulnois sur
Seil...
Michelle Quan’s Garden Bells
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It’s not often that artwork stops me in my tracks the way artist Michelle
Quan’s does. Her stoneware bells and tree garlands carry a meditative,
weighty sp...
flower ID: allium
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pretty allium from my garden. I had planted the bulbs in the fall with
Raquel and we were excited to see them bloom so lovely and purple for a few
rec...
The Studio Garden
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I wanted to show you the garden to prove it doesn't look like a sculpture
graveyard.
There's many works of art, but they're hidden along the paths to be
d...
Schreiner's Iris Garden
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This past weekend I wasn't quite in the mood to actually tackle any of the
projects around the house or garden...and was loo...
over and out
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week in review;
fell in love with Sonoma county and it's roses.
cessna flight to farm.
did some farm stuff.
back to ...
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Retenez cette date :
LUNDI 4 JUIN, AU FRANCPORT, *3 visites de jardins à partir de 14h30.*Section COMPIEGNE.
Un parc arboré avec de nombreuses essences et ...
Ballade en Suisse au Parc Seleger
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C'est dans un ancienne tourbière près de Zurich que se trouve la plus
grande collection de Rhododendrons et d'Azalés de Suisse.
On y trouve une collection ...
B Side
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Hey there.
The reason I title this post B side, is that I finally got around to
labeling the frames. I put a number on top and a number and A or B on the
...
Househunting in Singapore
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I'm just leaving for a househunting - or maybe an apartment hunting - trip
in Singapore. On the top of the 'required features' list is a large balcony
or...
So Long San Francisco
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We left town last Sunday and have been on a whirlwind road trip to Big Sur,
the Central Coast, Santa Barbara, Yosemite and now South Lake Tahoe. In a
coupl...
10 Beautiful Ideas for Herb Garden
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Shall I say
that herb garden is a must in any garden whether it’s a modern villa or urban balcony.
You benefit from your own herb garden more than just pleas...
Belize Zoo
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A fabulous little visit,
“The Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center was started in 1983, as a
last ditch effort to provide a home for a collection of ...
Happy Arbor Day
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Hundred year old magnolias planted as seeds or cuttings in the Bishop's
Close Garden in PortlandArbor Day is a national holiday in the United
States that f...
So...The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
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Sigh. Was it just me this year? I felt totally unengaged. Unispired.
Uninterested. Don't get me wrong, there were some interesting moments. I'll
show those...
Pacific Orchid Expo
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The Pacific Orchid Expo hit San Francisco this past weekend.
Lots of beautiful orchids .
The San Francisco Bromeliad Society was invited to install a display...
VILLA DEL VALLE
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Do you need to get away, take a holiday.
Does some sun and sand sound pretty good right now, check out this
website http://www.sunandsandgetaways.com/ ....
Peter Piper Misses the Party
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They were planted in late April. What was once a few plants quickly became
an impenetrable forest. Soon, picking occurred primarily along the forest
edge....
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Merci pour le mot sympa sur mon blog. J'aime quand tu es de retour sur notre paradis...Bonne journée
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