Even after Giverny we were still short on our quota of roses for the season, so June 10th, we headed to the Bois du Boulogne, one of Paris' several enormous parks, and specifically it's Parc de Bagatelle, which houses two (count 'em) enormous roseries. We only got to the first rose garden, plus the kitchen garden, deciding to save the rest for another year. I am pleased to say we have now surpassed our rose quota for the year. FWIW, the preceding weekend had been the annual rose show at Bagatelle, with the judging of some 100 new rose varieties, so we figured there was a good chance everything still would be in bloom. Also FWIW, the chateau and garden resulted from a bet between Marie Antoinette and the Count of Artois, about long it would take to build a chateau...64 days! Makes you feel so good about regicide. We'll get to the chateau next time.
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En route, a pied, from the bus stop...La Grand Cascade restaurant;
the canopies mimic Guimard's Metro edicules... |
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La Grand Cascade...not so impressive if you've seen Iguazu Falls; probably
artificial anyway |
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| Entering Bagatelle |
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Enormous place, and just a smidgeon of the Bois du Boulogne; we
only did the lower right-hand side of the map |
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| Smelling the roses...and we're still in the kitchen garden... |
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| Thus |
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Our modest pique-nique; we have been totally spoiled this year, having
award-winning Michael Reydillet baguettes with nearly every meal...just
like President Macron |
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| Pretty much everything in bloom |
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The usual incredibly good interpretive signage, mostly
French, some English, some Latin... |
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| Working our way from the irises to the rose garden |
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| Voila! |
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| And still pretty close to the city |
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| Signage on virtually every plant |
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| You can already vote on next year's varieties |
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| We ended up at the Orangerie |
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| Being decked-out for next week's exhibition |
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| One of the resident peacocks bids us a farewell and come back again |
