Après une visite au jardin
English version below the pictures
Qu’il est bon après une marche dans le jardin de se reposer, assis au soleil, dans la cour, tout en dégustant par petites gorgées une savoureuse boisson . On ressent une impession de sérénité et on se sentirait presque en vacances
How good it is after a walk in the garden to rest, sitting in the sun, in the courtyard, while enjoying a tasty drink in small sips. We feel an impession of serenity and we almost feel on vacation
Par rapport à ma visite au jardin de la semaine dernière des changements sont apparus . Les ficaires fausses renoncules sont apparues an touffes jaunes et les pâquerettes commencent a former des constellations dans le vert de la pelouse .
Dans le potager j’ ai planté aujourd’hui des tomates et des choux .
Oui , le printemps est bien arrivé !
Compared to my visit to the garden last week there have been some changes. False buttercups( Lesser celandine) have appeared in yellow tufts and daisies are starting to form constellations in the green of the lawn.
In the vegetable garden today I planted tomatoes and cabbages.
Yes, spring has arrived !
fauquetmichel 
You look very happy sitting outside. I’m glad you’re enjoying spring and a walk in your garden.
Yes we always feel good in a garden under the sun ! ❤
Tu es royal, on t accompagnerait bien 😅les petits plaisirs que l’on aime savourer ..cet apres midi pluies lais ils annoncent un beau week-end. Vivement que l on se retrouve .jd vous souhaite une bonne soirée je vous embrasse bien fort carole
Il faut déguster les bons moments comme l’on peut en espérant des jours meilleurs où la famille sera réunie. Merci Carole.
As you plant I pulled thistles from my yard. 🙂 My larkspur are growing out of their bed so I may put off having the yard mowed. 🙂
Larspur are a wonder in your yard , Bonnie ! 😉 but I prefer planting cabbages than pulling thistles! 🙂
That really sounds inviting! Esp the small sips on the spring garden!
Yes Holly. Was not this small sip a needed conclusion to the visit in the garden ? 🙂
It certainly is! 😊
Is not ecstatic this little sip under the joyous sun? 🙂
Très belles pensées
Beautiful ❤
Ah! If I ws able to writea beautiful poem about this as you do !
Vous êtes très gentil…merci, cher poète très doué vous-même ❤🌹
You are too kind!
Keep up the great work always ✍
I am trying! 🙂
✍❤😊
Michel, you look so contented sitting in the sunshine with a cool drink! The flowers are beautiful and inspiring. I walked around my yard this morning and enjoyed watching many butterflies. As you say, It’s spring! 🙂 Good luck with the tomatoes and cabbages!
Love ❤
Cheryl
Yes, I apprecied to be sit in the sunshine, Cheryl. I hope the crop will be better this year than last year ( drought) ❤
Spring has sprung and you are enjoying it. Cheers!
You see Frank I do not walk on the beach but in my garden! 🙂
LOL …. walking anywhere is good. 🙂 Cheers & best of luck with your garden.
And in the garden the song of the trees all around makes me think of the sea voice! 🙂
Perhaps we will look at the garden tomorrow, if we feel better. We just got the second Covid vaccination yesterday. You look so contented that it’s making me want to get out there, too!
Janine got the first vacccine yesterday . She is tired on this afternoon . I hope tomorrow you enjoy your garden, Susan. ❤
A beautiful post Michel. I’m sure what you planted will taste delicious in a few months.
But in waiting for the crop we have the pleasure to see the plants growing , and the flowers blooming, Nico! 🙂
That’s right! Creation is wonderful to observe. Peace my friend.
Mankind also is part of the Creation.
Yes!! Blessings.
yea, the sun warms you as you warm our hearts … keep on smiling Michel!
I am glad to keep you smiling , Kate .
Is not it wonderful after seeing the Nature show to sit in the sunshine ? ❤
best thing we can do, it’s so healing Michel 🙂
It is a simple pleasure but so good ! ❤
Tomatoes planted already! It is still too cold whee I am, with clear nights still often below freezing. You look happy Michel. May spring bring all good things to you, Janine and the family. ❤
– Lavinia
Thanks Lavinia for your encouragements with the arrival of the spring . Yes I was happy in the sunshine and in the garden..
Yes I planted the tomatoes earlier than usual . But it is a try because I stopped to plant tomatoes because the previous years they always get the mildiou . This year i planted early , I risk but it is a try and I planted also in another part of the garden. Wish me luck,.<3
The flowers certainly speak to Spring. I finally had a lone daffodil come up and bloom… I think the squirrels and deer ate the other bulbs! We won’t be putting in the garden until the 2nd week of May here. Our Arugula and kale made it through the winter and are putting out new leaves!
I confess, Val, I plant a bit early . But for the perenne flowers this the nature that reigns and not the mankind ❤
Enjoy your garden. We have 2 months until the frost danger goes away and we can plant.
Again a suprb garden in sight . What are the mind veggies you grow ? ❤
Tomatoes, carrots, onions, potatoes, green beans, cabbage, broccoli, egg plant, asparagus, peppers, cucumbers, radishes, cantaloupe, watermelon, and pumpkins.
Amazing! Quantity and diversity. It is really a veggiegarden! Ah! the good soups in sight ! 🙂
Thank you. I do flower to. Mainly Columbine, Iris, and Lillys.
You are a complete gardener. Who taught you about it?
My grandma and my parents when I was young. My mom taught me the canning side of things.
You got a well balanced education : gardening, trucking, writing and householding ! It is Total ! ❤
Thanks.
No matter how many springs we have experienced, each new one is experienced as if it’s our very first. Similarly, no matter how many gardens we plant, the one springing up this year is as delightful and any that came before it.
Yes Judy, spring and gardening always are new! ❤
You look very satisfied sitting in the garden. Happy for you!
Yes I was , Suzy. It was good to rest in the sunshine! 3<
Welcome, Welcome Spring!
Oh, the beauty that you bring!
Michel is in the garden soaking in the sun!
His smile is contagious, bringing joy to everyone! 🙂
(((HUGS))) 🙂 ❤
PS…Best of luck with your veggie garden!
You are a talented poet, Carolyn, and I am glad my small post inspires you..
Yes I was happy warmed by the sun! ❤
You look very happy and relaxed, Michel! Lovely photo of you sitting there enjoying your wine. ❤
So I was resting and sipping, Marion !! 🙂 yes I was happy to be there . However my drink was not wine ! 🙂
Where I live, the historic last killing frost is the middle of May, and the traditional time to plant tomatoes the last day of May. Of course, any good gardener wants to try to get things planted earlier than that, and many fail! LOL! On the other hand, sometimes they get fresh garden tomatoes a week or two earlier than previous years. That’s the gamble that makes gardening interesting.
You are right about frost at the beginning of May, Doug. . May 11, 12, 13 are Saints of ice days ( St Gervais , St Mamers and St Pancrace ). ; It may happen frost killing our veggies but I took the risk!! 🙂
Of course you did! Any serious gardener takes risks like this because most times you end up with early results!
I hope so, Doug!
It’s disappointing when you think that you can safely plant and along comes another frosty night…Even meteorologists with all their fancy equipment get it wrong.
Sometimes gardening becomes an adventure , Françoise . I recognize it was a risk to plant tomatoes at this time ! ❤
Wonderful that spring is coming, and great that you can enjoy your garden with a smile on your face and something nice to drink. A toast to you Michel!
Yes a toast! Cheer !
bonsoir Michel,
tu as raison, le soleil change tout ! Tout comme toi, j’ai remarqué les paquerettes qui forment des taches blanches dans l’herbe et en même temps son arrivés aussi les pissenlits , ma hantise .
Je ne savais pas que l’on pouvait déja planté des tomates , ici en général , on attend le passage des saints de glace en mai.
bises ! bonne semaine !
C ‘ est vrai que je suis fort en avance par rapport à la St Gervais, la St Mamers et St Pancrace les 11, 12 et 13 Mai mais j’ ai risqué ..
Les pissenlits ? Les avis sont partagés . Mon père cultivaient des pissenlits et quand ils commençaient s ‘étaler il mettait une tuile desssus pour les faire blanchir . C ‘ était les premières salades de pleine terre avec les mâches semées à l’aiutomne précédent. Mais , évidemment des pissenlits qui envahissent la pelouse n’ont rien d’amusant ;
Un de mes fils fait du vin de pissenlit (isssu de fermentation ) et de bien d’autres fleurs!
Amitiés à toi, Maidy.
planter
Oui Michel, tu fais prendre des risques à tes tomates, car ici une année, tout a gelé un premier mai, Mais parfois aussi cela vaut la peine d’anticiper . Faudrait avoir une serre .
Oui les salades de pissenlit nous connaissons aussi en alsace, nous en cherchions dans les prés. Parait que les meilleurs, les plus tendres, poussent sur les taupinières. Ma belle-mère disait que cette salade purifie le sang, au printemps.
En Suisse, nous avons déja goûté aussi au vin de pissenlit, mais cela ne m’a pas laissé un grand souvenir.
C’est vrai, Maidy, qu’une serre m’ aurait été utile mais on a laissé passer les années, toujours trop occupé surtout quand j’ étais en activité.
Hello Michel.
Spring has come and to enjoy about it while sun shines with some nice drink, is living full life. Last week we opened our balcony season in the same way. It was a great joy to study how the people have changed their spring clothes and looked happy. Happy new week. Amitiés, Matti
We feel a new season happens and life is different . We enjoy it, Matti.
You look very happy and relaxed. Good for you. Hello Spring.
Yes, Elizabeth, I enjoy to be sit in the sunshine in this season after w small work in the garden .
Dear Friend Michel, First of all Thank you for your concern and words, I have just met with you blog too. So sorry my blog is private, because of my situation in my country, Because of political/religious attacks… This blog is my private field by writing in English language, this is my freedom… I hope you can understand me. I tried to sent an invitation to you but I need your e-mail, but if you would like to follow me, you can enter my blog and you can make a request, if you have already did, please make again, I would be so happy to see you in my blog too, be sure, we have always a cup of tea for you, Thank you, Love, nia
I am touched by your so kind answer, Nia . I understand your post is private But i will try again . ❤
Oh wow, you have already planted tomatoes and cabbages? We haven’t even gotten our little greenhouse box into the ground yet to warm up! (We’re expecting snow on Thursday!) I enjoy seeing the new growth and life in your gardens.
You are right, Marica . I think I am slightly in advance fotr the tomatoes . I have been tempted at watching them in the shop!! 🙂
We have to wait for a little longer to plant here at our home, until mid May. Our weather has been crazy lately. It has been nice then the forecast says snow for Thursday.
I am frightened for my tomatoes, Gail ! 🙂
Les belles fleurs! Je me demande, qu’est-ce que tu bois. 🙂 Maintenant voit on ici une petite fleur bleue qui développe comme un tapis. Je crois c’est Scilla sibirica. Je les aime particulierement ! Mais beaucoup sont étrangers : https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/opinion/immigrant-plants-ecosystem.html
I don’t have Scilla siberica, Neil . In blue flowers we have Muscari, violets and some hyacinths at this time .
But I would try to gtr Scilla . Thanks for the recall .
About my drink it was a small glass of beer! 🙂
Fleurs bleues—le bleuet (Centaurea cyanus), la jacinthe (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), . . . toutes sont merveilleux! Novalis avait le “blaue Blume” comme motif spirituelle.
Proche de moi l’Uni a un champ où les horticulteurs reconstruisent la prairie chaque année. Ils sèment bientôt. Je l’anticipe—à côté des plantes, beaucoup des insectes intéressants se trouvent la, papillons, libellules.
Thanks, Neil, for the recall about Novalis and his blue flower symbol of the Romanticism and spirituality.. I suppose the Uni’s lawn they try to sow the species that should grow on this soil and with this climate spontanously to make again the ecosytem.
So much of the true habitat everywhere is replaced now, but more recently it is fashionable to plant native species and encourage pollinators . . . I can’t complain, yet I do wonder, does the resulting patchwork make much difference?
In the far past, Neil, I did research in ecology, in particular the links between plant groups and the composition of the soil in a given climate. It seems to me that instead of directly planting plants which are an evolutionary term of the plant group for this soil, it would be better to start by sowing or planting plants of initial or intermediate plant groups.
Joyeuses Pâques!
I remember you are an ecologist. Now you make me think: I’m pretty sure the horticulture people use the plot for a teaching project, as well as a community feature, and the intent is to recreate the historic habitat. But I wonder how they select the species.
The vegetal species are linked to a type of soil and to the climate . For a type of soil and climate you have an vegetal association : a group of species .This has been studied and this science is called phytosociology. So when you have a type of soil and climate you must have a vegetal group , known.
I studied this in 1963/64 with the university of Lille but I did not continue. And now I forgot like many things ! 🙂
ps : the ecology was a part of my studies . I am agrégé of natural sciences (Botanic, zoology and geology) but all of this is very far away!!
You look so content Michel, and those little sips, brilliant way to unwind after working hard and surveying your garden..
I relaxed on my Patio yesterday afternoon after a long mornings work in the allotments… I will have to piece together a Garden blog… Now I feel more like doing so…
Happy Spring to you both my friend 🙂 💚💛💚
Yes, Sue, the spring with the arrival of beautiful days and the blooming of numerous flowers encourages us to go and start the garden, without exceeding our limits. ❤
Little and often is my motto…. Not overdoing it… Plenty of breaks inbetween… Enjoy those little breaks my friend.. They suite you.. 🙂
“Make haste slowly” !! 😉
Exactly !
yes, taking a rest after a walk in your amazing garden is so justified and having a few sips of your favorite drink to top it all. Beautiful grounds of yellow and white in your garden Michel. I love visiting your garden.
Love,
Zakiah.
Yes , Zakiah at this time yeallow and white are frequent . But we have to not forget the blue of Hacinths and Muscaris . And now some red tulips start to enjoy our eyes ! 🙂
The garden is a pleasure , a place where we engjoy to be .
Love ❤
Michel
Bravo, le printemps est bien arrivé!!! Et tu as planté des tomates et des choux.
Joyeuses Pâques, Michel!
A propos des tomates et des choux , c ‘est une question d’espoir car je crois que je les ai plantés trop tôt, Louisa. Il peuvent geler! ❤
Magnifico👍
Grazie per i tuoi gentili commenti, Sherazade ❤
Grazie a te !
bonjour Michel,
oui, j’ai pensé de suite à tes tomates en voyant la neige, mais faut avouer que le temps incitait au jardinage ! mon mari avait planté des plants de courgette dans un grand bac sur pied, avec le couvercle, il les pensait protégés , mais depuis hier, ils sont dans un triste état.
Je devinee qu’il a dû bien geler car j’ avais protégé chaque pied de tomate par une sorte de cloche en plastique. Cela est loin d’avoir suffi. En clair je n’ ai plus de tomate . Il me reste peut-être les choux ,?? Est-ce possible ‘à mon âge d’avoir encore cettte témétrité , ???? ❤
Bonjour merci de ta visite bisous amitié BERNARD
Rétablis -toi vite , Bernard
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Welcome , Monica !
I always love pictures of your wonderful garden! I hope your drink was rejuvenating!