Green is in?

 I think GREEN is IN (Degas blue-green)

I’m seeing a lot of it

Jardins, Jardin - Bois de Bologne, Chanel l’Iris

 

For 4 days, May 30 - June 2, the Bois de Boulogne became an olfactory experience. Usually it’s held at Tuileries but because of the Olympics 

Plus total immersion in Chanel’s purple irises in bloom at Jardins, Jardin. 

Jardins Jardin 2022

 

The annual 4-day (on through Sunday) JARDINS JARDIN has arrived in the Tuileries. Aside for a torrential downpour the weather has been grand.

And very much missed after a 2-year hiatus.

Its a week or so until the start of summer in Paris. My recent obsession with painting glass 

Drew me to beautiful jars filled with fruit and veg. 

You can also buy very small green houses. Will they fit on my little patch of roof?

The bee 🐝 people with honey from Paris rooftops are here again, CITYBZZ with the latest in what to wear when bee-keeping.

Why didn’t I buy fresh 🍓berries at LA FERME DE GALLY instead of jam? 

Their nectar framboise looked yummy. I am definitely going back. 

You can buy cherry tomato 🍅 plants for your balcon. 

The fresh mint plants smells heavenly. 

There are the beautiful designer gardens for total immersion with steaming fountains and trickling brooks to make you forget you’re in the middle a busy city. 

Buy a ready-to-go picnic basket lunch and camp out on the grounds.

Chanel has again installed a garden presenting their latest red Camellia creations in 2 ‘red’ greenhouses. 

But first immersion into the scent of No.#1 as red flowers dance and flow over you. 

Then a visit to the lab for more details and pretty flower samples to make us forever young😊 I was inspired to run home and get out my red paints. 

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Jardins, Jardin 2018

This was my second time at Jardins, Jardin, the annual horticultural 4-day May event in the Tuileries gardens

What a glorious day. What a glorious event. Plan to attend your next Paris trip in. May SVP.

Immerse yourself in garden decorations and projects like these clever sheds.

Everyone needs a greenhouse. Its supposed to be healthy to hang out with plants.

Hanging out in a bubble/bulle? Not sure that would suit me.

The creme de la creme of garden sheds. Put it on your terrasse. Plus a photographic Paris skyline including the Eiffel tower.

Not a shed, but a facsimile of Chanel's flower gardens in Grasse. A chance to enhale No. 5 and her other scents

Or buy some herbs for your window sill.

I wouldn't mind a divider wall of flower pots in my tiny chambre de bonne...

If you love watering cans too, please raise your hand

I don't know what this is but intriguing none the less.

Supermarche Franprix provided free tomates cerises and nectarines.

You could munch in the many pique-nique areas provided

Chairs supplied by French garden supplier giant, Truffaut.

You could feel the heat in the Tuileries after you left the cool enclave of JARDINS JARDIN.

I got lots of garden goodies to put in the June pique-nique Paris map and letter, once they are done.

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