LE JARDIN

A sad little story apropos the jardin des plantes: I arrived full of the joys of autumn at the entrance to the herb garden to find the gardeners digging up one of my favourite trees there (fremontodendron californicum). Imagine my distress! Apparently, unfortunately, its trunk had broken in two and so it needed to be removed for safety reasons. There is just a big hole now but luckily they allowed me to take lots of its branches as cuttings. I hope they will take ..