Parc de Bagatelle
Is part of the Bois de Bologne in Neuilly.Take the #43 bus from Gare St. Lazare. Then walk tout droit/straight ahead.
Do not wander into the boulangerie on the corner for an ice cream as I did. The woman gave me the wrong directions. The Bagatelle is down on your left once you've entered the gardens. Really you can't miss it.
There are gardens within gardens. I missed seeing the roses in full bloom and should have come earlier in June. They have many events throughout the summer. Check www.paris.fr
Empress Eugenie's kiosk set up on the hill overlooking the Roseraie.
Stop in the small boutique to the right of the entrance and buy a map for . And 20 centimes
In English too.
*A reader was having nothing to do with the peacock and kept shooing it away. I should be so lucky as to have a peacock hanging about when I draw ✍️
My favorite spot was a small rectangular garden off to the left of the Roseraie, called les jardins des Presentateurs with seasonal changing blooms and vegetation, even corn.
A series of pergolas.
Each one different in design and shape.
A pure visual delight
Breathtaking
At 5 pm I had it to myself. The gardens are open 9:30 till 6:30
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (1861-1930) is the landscape architect of this garden as well as the Champs de Mar near the Eiffel Tower. He was influenced by both the Impressionists and the Neoclassical.
Dahlias..
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An exhibition on of historic landscape drawings of all the gardens of Paris at the chateau within the park. I haven't even shown you the lily pond and so many other areas but I'll be returning. I'm enjoying all the nature Paris has to offer. Something I rarely did in New York.
Marie-Antoinette had a hand in designing the gardens but that's another story. Are these white flowers pom-poms?
A woman on the 43 bus had a huge bouquet of these white flowers.
I'm off to visit goats and cows producing cheese 🧀 near Nantes tomorrow at the ferme of fromager Pascale Beillevaire. More adventures to come!
