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.
Amourette à Athènes
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Briza maxima, famille des Poaceae
Prise de vue : Athènes / Αθήνα
Quartier de Vouliagmeni, à 100 mètres de la Mer Egée.
28 avril 2012.
Epillet en forme de...
HumanGear has gone from GoToobs (my favorite...
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HumanGear has gone from GoToobs (my favorite travel tubes ever) to GoTUBBs!
Great little one hand openable containers! We're tempted to add magnets to
the ...
Indignez-vous!
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"J'ai adoré entendre que les enfants...
Food For Eating
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How many local restaurants do you know of that grow some of the food they serve out back? What could possibly be fresher. Sunny Point Cafe in West Asheville ...
Long weekend
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Usually this tray, which my mother gave me a couple of years ago, is
brought to me, in bed, with breakfast, on Saturdays and Sundays. During the
week I h...
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...
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...
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 ...
Information
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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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