Fashion dictates that gardens should offer year round interest. In particular, winter needs to be forced to play its part with evergreen shrubs, coloured bark, late-flowering perennials, quirkily-shaped stems, early bulbs. All must be colourful and bright and perky. But increasingly I am inclined towards gardens that reflect the reality of nature, in its disorder, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘parc de Bercy’
Sex and death in the garden
Posted in Gardens, Paris, Parks, tagged ecological design, musée du Quai Branly, parc de Bercy, winter garden, year round interest on January 6, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Climate change à la Parisienne
Posted in Modern design, Paris, tagged +2°C... Paris s'invente !, climate change, mairie de Paris, parc de Bercy, rue la Boëtie on January 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Most people think about climate change with either skepticism or despair. In a new campaign, the mairie de Paris is trying to introduce a third response: optimism. A group of architects, collectif et alors, has imagined how Paris would respond to a rise in temperatures of 2 degrees. The results, presented as twenty postcards, show [...]
Autumn – the year’s last, loveliest smile
Posted in Paris, Parks, tagged autumn, hornbeam, parc de Bercy, parc Monceau, Paris, sweetgum on October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We have enjoyed a glorious Indian summer in Paris, lingering well into October, with temperatures in the 20s and bright sunny skies almost every morning. But the trees know. Shorter days and cooler nights have signalled the changing seasons to them. Here is one beautiful example from last weekend, in our local parc Monceau. I [...]











