A walk along the Promenade Plantée, Paris
The Promenade plantée or Coulée Verte follows the route of an old railway line that has been converted into a green walk. It links the hustle and bustle of the […]
The Promenade plantée or Coulée Verte follows the route of an old railway line that has been converted into a green walk. It links the hustle and bustle of the […]
The Potager du Roi was built for King Louis XIV, the magnificent ‘Sun King’, to provide fruit and vegetables for his table and to feed the court at Versailles. The […]
The Chemin des Dames is a road that runs atop a ridge in the plain that stretches from Soissons to Reims. It was a bitterly contested part of the western […]
Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) is an Italian artist and a member of the Arte Povera movement. His work is concerned with creating contact between people and nature. The exhibition of […]
The Quai de Mégisserie is THE street in central Paris to buy plants and garden supplies. Five or six garden shops are strung along the right bank of the river […]
The 1st of November is La Toussaint (All Saints), a bank holiday in France, and the day when French families visit the tombs of their friends and relatives. Tradition dictates […]
I recently attended the autumn edition of Les Journées des Plantes which is held in the grounds of the Domaine de Coursons every autumn and spring. The Domaine is 35km […]