The Jardin des Plantes is beginning to look lovely, but it will look even better in May and June, so if you are going to be in Paris, you might want to take a look at it, especially if you have an interest in gardening.

I was there on Monday and made a little report about it: http://tinyurl.com/27kd9mn

Thank you for this. We love this place and find ouselves drawn there nearly every visit. We have not been fortunate enough to be there in May or June. Maybe some day.

Kerouac,
I swear every time you post, I add your recomendation to my list of must sees. At this point I'm going to need 19 days in Paris to have a chance. LOL.

Thanks for the tip.

Yes thanks for the pix - brings back many warm memories of sitting in these wonderful gardens whilst waiting for trains at Austerlitz

Beside plant-watching people-watching is great - a popular jogging and strolling venues for locals.

The gardens have been totally re-worked in the past few years i believe to make them even better

The backdrop of the Neo-Classical Natural History (?) Museum buildings adds to the lure.

Thank you for this lovely report. I leave next week for 16 days in Paris and these pictures are making the wait seem unbearable.

If seeing the gardens just across the busy highway and along the banks of the Seine is another often overlooked park - the open-air sculpture museum with modern sculptures spaced along the banks - with Notre-Dame Cathedral sublimely backdropping it all

A sweet walk from the Jardin des Plantes thru the alfresco statue park to Notre Dame, all along the old quays of the Seine

Palenque: Are you referring to the Jardin Tino Rossi?

Thank you for giving me a bit of Paris today.

Palenque, I've added the open-air sculpture museum to my list.

Wonderful, kerouac! Thank you for sharing. The images bring back memories of being 'stranded,' unable to fly out, in the days immediately following September 11, 2001, and spending days wandering the parks of Paris. (An earlier version of the recent volcano panic.)

Here are more images of Jardin des Plantes, in autumn this time, as well as Parc de Bercy, Versailles and Vaux le Vicomte, for those who need an additional 'garden fix.'

http://gardentouring.fotopic.net/c790134.html

You can click on the thumbnails for larger images.

sap - yes though i did not remember that name

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So much more colourful than when we saw it in May 2009 - We were there just at the wrong time but I did enjoy dicovering the Cedar of Lebanon!
Thanks for the wonderful photos , especially of the Iceland poppies. If one is very fast you can trap a bee inside the petals and get him really m a d!

There were indeed plenty of bees. Wonder why...

i read there are now quite a few roof-top beehives all over Paris.

thanks karouac, it was a March when I was there. The two huge greenhouses are spectacular.