Springtime planting

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Yesterday I started planting seeds for my potager.I planted some little baby filet beans(haricots) which will come up quickly so I stagger the planting times . I planted some snow peas and I am experimenting with some new baby melons this year. More nasturtiums,can never have enough and some borage,lavender,chervil and will again try lemon verbena which never seems to thrive for me. Oh,and some more nepeta(catmint,catnip) for the" fellinis".

[bjd]

This afternoon I planted two new clematises -- a double pink one and a dark blue one. I don't have space for a vegetable garden so just have flowers and some bushes.

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You can do vegetables and herbs in containers,you can even plant vining vegetables in with your clematis.

[bjd]

I did plant cherry tomatoes in pots on my balcony.

I find that the years things grow well in my garden, they don't cost too much at the local open-air market, so it hardly seems worth it.

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I don't do tomatoes anymore for that very reason,they seem to invite so much pestilence but there's nothing more gratifying than snipping some fresh herbs to cook or make a salad with.Fresh mint in teas,basil on tomatoes or pesto...
I also swap with people because I have alot of citrus trees and they come in from November thru January,so come summer all those folks I gave lemons and limes to share their tomatoes and cucumbers etc.

[welle]

Today I planted 5 tomato plants and some carrot seeds. I was very lucky with my 2 tomato plants last year, so I decided to up the number this year. I also cleared a bunch of weeds and was able to eat the first strawberry of the year last week!

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Spring is slyly approaching, even in Paris, and the municipal gardeners are at it again. For some reason, I usually catch the planting sites at lunch hour, when nothing is happening (perhaps because I am out to lunch myself ).

Anyway, at Rond Point des Champs Elysées, there is a lot of work to do in the six flower beds, and today seems to have been the day that the spring flowers were being installed.

[mich64]

How nice it must feel to know spring is coming to Paris! Really nice photos. Would love to be there.
Cheers,
Mich

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The six flower beds of 'Rond Point' require a lot of time. This side was just finished and looks rather frail.

The other side is the one that I photographed above last week, and is already looking much better. In March, it should be perfect.

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It's still spring, so I can still use this thread!

Here is my flower garden, on my kitchen windowsill. I bought a package of "mixed wildflowers" some time ago. The first pot was started about 4 weeks ago. The second pot was started just last week. It looks like I will have to be patient.

       

Now, don't you people with real gardens feel vastly superior?

[cheerypeabrain]

Excellent...looks like you'll have a lot of colour Kerouac. You don't need a garden to grow plants! Lovely ;D (I hope that we get more pics as they grow)

[bixaorellana]

Oh ~~ you have la main verte! Is that a little geodesic greenhouse on the balcony or roof below your window?

[tod2]

Absolutely not Kerouac! I would get just as much enjoyment out of a few little pots as I do trying to maintain half and acre of garden in fairly good shape! I am looking forward to their progress.

[mich64]

I cannot wait to see the blooms!
Cheer,
Mich

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The suspense is that I have no idea what the flowers are supposed to look like. Naturally, the lovely photo on the package shows a mixture of just about everything.

Bixa, the geodesic thing downstairs is the roof of a kiosk (newsstand). That's the current design in Paris, except on the Champs Elysées where they have tried to maintain the frou-frou design of what tourists would like to see.

[cheerypeabrain]

The foliage looks intriguing Kerouac....might be a few marigolds in there...and cornflowers? I dunno....I can't wait to see what they are. ;D

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Maybe I'll just eat them as a salad.

[bixaorellana]

Interesting newstand. Are they portable?

I believe there are a couple of zinnias in the pot in the 1st pic.

Tod, it's so true that gardeners must garden, whether on a windowsill or on that vast acreage we all think we want.

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No, that is just the standard "end-of-the-20th-century" design for a newsstand.



Now we have gone back to a new "let's-make-believe-we're-in-the-19th-century" design.

[bixaorellana]

All I can think of looking at the first kiosk is what a fine, fine hothouse it would make!

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Refer to #9. Here is the current state of my random growth.

[bixaorellana]

That is cheerful & impressive. I think it's a type of Coreopsis. If you save the seeds, you can have it again next year. It will be fun to see what else blooms in that pot.

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My "wildflowers" are pretty much ignoring me, but I continue to water them anyway.

[bixaorellana]

Hmm. I'm now thinking the orange ones are cosmos, probably the yellow one, too. The little white daisies with the ferny foliage might be chamomile. Your zinnias may not bloom till the Fall. It's all very pretty!

[palesa]

Your wildflowers look suicidal or as if they are about to be pushed

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I'm trying to talk them away from the edge.

[cheerypeabrain]

Splendid, I agree with Bixa that the yellow ones are cosmos. If you take off the dead flowers (snip the stalk back to just above the leaves) then the plants will keep flowering until the first frosts.

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Back at the same Champs Elysées flowerbeds that I photographed in February 2011, I was somewhat impressed to see how different the designs are from year to year. I was also wondering if the purple plant was a variety of the many decorative cabbages that are often used in gardens.