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Cherry blossoms in Paris 2019: when to go, where to live, where to look for places where "sakura" clusters in the capital of France. Annual start and end dates of flowering.

Parisians and guests of the capital do not get tired of thanking the Japanese for giving the world a cherry blossom holiday. Or cherries, in our opinion. The French quickly picked up the idea to make a cult out of an ordinary event, in general, and received another reason for admiration. Now, for local residents, swollen rose buds in the alleys become a harbinger of warmth, which means that spring has finally come into its own.

For tourists, cherry blossoms (by the way, not only cherries, but also magnolias) are one of the main reasons to go to Paris in the middle of spring. True, there are also travelers who find themselves in the capital in March by accident, and the blooming pink riot just knocks you off your feet.

To avoid surprises, and possibly adjust your plans for visiting Paris, read the article from cover to cover. The spectacle is worth it to move the trip from February to mid-April and even from May to the end of March - it’s not for nothing that Parisian photographers have all the free places for these dates packed a year ahead.

When to ride the hanami in Paris 2019

Of course, it is impossible to predict the exact dates of flowering of the cherry trees of Paris - weather forecasts vary too much. Hanami starts from the beginning of March and pleases the eye until mid-April. Nobody can say for sure. Unless an experienced gardener, who knows the nature of each tree and the signs of future spring weather, can more or less specifically orient. And even then within one to two weeks. But this is still of little help to the average tourist. Because it’s better to look for tickets and book a hotel in advance.

The earlier the better. Even despite the prevailing opinion that the cherry blossom in Paris is a poorly promoted event, and places, they say, in affordable hotels are empty, and flights are cheap. Don't believe. Firstly, hotels in Paris (especially good and inexpensive ones) are by definition never idle. Secondly, Europeans have long known how beautiful the capital of love is during this period, and they, wherever they fly, are within easy reach of Charles de Gaulle Airport - an hour or two and on the spot.

What should a Russian do when flying to catch most of the cherry trees in bloom? Late March or early April is the best. Focus on the dates from 25.03 to 7.04, you can't go wrong. If you dream of a photo session (or a photo tour, as it is fashionable now), order in advance. You can search in social networks, Instagram or on Tripster, where you will get not only a photographer, but also a guide - two in one.

#2. Hotel Antin Trinite

Double room at Hotel Antin Trinite

Hotel at an adequate price; The rooms are modern, after a fresh renovation. Located opposite and a hundred meters from the Grand Opera. Close to sightseeing buses, Rossybus to the airport and RER metro station. Breakfast is decent, staff is friendly.

#3. Hôtel De Lutece-Notre-Dame

Hôtel De Lutece near Notre Dame de Paris

The main trump card of the three-star hotel is its location on the island of Saint-Louis (through the bridge of the same name you can go straight to Notre-Dame-de-Paris). The interior of the rooms is designed in a light "palace" style, there are air conditioners and soundproofing, free wi-fi. Very good breakfasts!

#four. Elysees Union

Elysées Union near the cherry blossom spot in Paris!

3 star hotel 10 minutes from eiffel tower. Quiet Parisian street, calm area, with shops, cafes and bakeries. The rooms are small, but everything you need is available; the tower is visible from some windows. Breakfast buffet, and for Paris, surprisingly generous, tasty and varied!

#5. Hôtel le Clos de Notre Dame

Everything here is atmospheric: the building of the 16th century, and the interior, and even breakfasts - yes, they are truly “Parisian”, coffee + croissant (well, the freshest croissant, and a whole library in the lounge area to boot!). Location - Saint-Germain district, near Saint-Michel metro station. Parking and wi-fi available.

#6. Hotel Abbatial St Germain

The hotel is 10 minutes from Notre Dame, a real Parisian street, with restaurants and mini-shops. Close to bus stops Big Bus and Open Tour. To the metro station - no more than 7-8 minutes on foot, there is a direct line to the airport.

Other Cherry Blossoms in Paris

A few more secret cherry blossom spots in spring Paris:

• Montsouris park. Located on the left bank of the Seine, the nearest metro station is Cité Universitaire. Cherries bloom quite generously there, and the place is beautiful: in the center there is a small lake, a lot of cozy benches, golf courses.
• So Park. This is a little-known place in Paris, it is not even included in the ratings of the top 10 gardens and parks of the French capital. But sakura blooms there surprisingly violently - there are both pink and terry-white. Remember the name in French "Sceaux". Metro station - Parc de Sceaux, RER B line.
• Marten Luther King Park. The official name of the square may confuse someone, because it is also known as Clichy-Batignolles. Nearest metro station is Brochant, not RER.

That's all. For the first time, passwords and appearances are more than enough. A fragrant trip to Paris and mutual love in the most romantic city in the world!

Photo album containing best places cherry blossoms in Paris (near Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, in the parks of So, Montsouris and the Garden of Trees):

France cannot be imagined without flowers. A stylized lily has long been a symbol of this country. Tourists from all over the world come here to see not only the sights, but also the traditional flowers of france.

AT countryside, perhaps, it is impossible to find a house near which pelargoniums, mallows, clematis or roses would not grow. Entire fields are planted with fragrant flowering plants, which serve as raw materials for the manufacture of essential oils.

And there are many flowers in the cities. Parks, squares, shop windows, cafe tables, balconies and windows of houses - the French strive to decorate every corner of their habitat with their favorite flowers.

lilies of the valley

This is one of the special flowers that the French adore. It is not surprising that a whole holiday is dedicated to him - the Day of the Lily of the Valley, which can be safely called the Day of France. On May 1, the whole country is buried in these lovely and fragrant flowers, which here symbolize happiness and health. Every Frenchman tries to give his family and friends a touching bouquet of lilies of the valley. Indeed, according to the French tradition, with lilies of the valley placed in a vase, real spring comes to the house.

irises

Yellow-purple irises have become one of the national symbols countries. Perhaps only lilies can compete with them. There are a lot of irises in France. The alpine village of Gourdon is especially rich in them, where a favorable climate has developed for violent flowering.

Historical fact - King Louis XII declared the iris the official symbol of the country. For a long time it was assumed that lilies were depicted on the coat of arms of France under the Capetians and the Bourbons. However, recently historians and botanists agree that these are still irises.

It is worth noting that iris essential oil has traditionally been a valuable raw material in France for the manufacture of first-class perfumes, which the country is so famous for.

Lilies and wedding bouquets

White lilies can also be called one of the most "French" flowers. They met on the banners and coats of arms of the kings. Under Louis VII, lilies become a symbol of royal power, and under Louis XII they grow in every French garden and bear the name, neither more nor less, of the flowers of Louis.

It is customary to give a white lily to the groom of his beloved. This flower is often used for wedding bouquets, along with the white rose. The French adopted from the British to decorate wedding bouquets with white flowers. However, you can also find bright wedding bouquets, where each color carries a semantic load. For example, orange - symbolizes fertility and wealth, red tulips - true love, lilies of the valley - hope for happiness.

Lavender

Lavender fields in Provence, France have already become a legend. Hectares of these flowers are grown in the fields of several villages in the north of the country. Where else can you find the Lavender Museum or various lavender field tours? To look at this beauty, experts advise coming here in June-July. Inhaling the aroma of these endless fragrant fields is advised to pregnant women, as well as to calm the nerves and gain peace of mind.

French lavender is interesting for its green spear-shaped shoots. At the end of each branch, 6 to 10 purple buds appear, which are used to make essential oil, soaps, biscuits, cupcakes and for medicinal purposes.

In the country for this plant, there are so comfortable conditions for growing that France today has become one of the most major suppliers rosemary oil in the world. This low shrub with bluish or whitish flowers can often be found in the South of the country. Widely used in cooking, medicine and cosmetics.

rosemary bush	rosemary and cat

Clematis

Clematis are most often found in the southern sunny regions of France. They are entwined with most of the fences and walls of houses. The most popular clematis is purple. In second place in popularity are plants with white flowers. The French have bred many varieties of these beautiful flowers. And in the people this plant is called "grass of beggars" and is considered a symbol of pretense. Apparently, the old times are affecting, when beggars smeared their hands with clematis juice and disfigured their skin in order to pity those around them.

Geranium

Since the end of the 19th century, pelargonium has been grown in France for the production of essential oil. At the same time, geranium with a double flower and many other varieties that gained world fame were first bred here. Today, pelargonium is the most popular home and garden flower in cities and villages. A rich palette of flower colors allows you to give free rein to your imagination and plant compositions with these plants, for example, in the form of a French flag, alternating purple, white and red pelargoniums.

dahlias

France has long been famous for its breeders and competitions dedicated to dahlias. Do not forget that it was in this country that dahlias with a bright purple color were bred at the beginning of the 19th century. This gave rise to "dahlia fever" throughout Europe. And today these flowers are extremely popular throughout the country. They are especially common in areas with a warm and humid climate.

Roses

France is sometimes called the land of roses. The cultivation of these flowers is set here on a grand scale. Several large nurseries supply planting material for gardens and parks of the country. Tens of millions of plants are grown in greenhouses for cutting and go to shops in France and flower markets around the world. Large greenhouses of the country are engaged in selection work and seed production of roses.

Flower shop in Paris

Roses in a flower shop

...and other flowers

If you want to arrange a “French Corner” in your garden, be sure to plant annuals in addition to the listed flowers: cosmos, asters, balsam, marigolds and begonias. From biennials, mallows, bells, pansies are suitable. And of the perennials, the French would certainly recommend you the Japanese anemone, gladioli, tulips, chrysanthemums, carnations, euphorbia, rudbeckia and thistle. And even more often arrange a holiday for yourself - make elegant bouquets, give them to friends, decorate your house with flowers.

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In this post, I suggest you travel to Paris late nineteenth century. Our guides on this fascinating journey through time will be N.F. Zolotnitsky (below is an excerpt from his book "Flowers in Legends and Traditions") and the artist Shriver.

Whoever was not early in the morning at the central flower market in Paris, he cannot even imagine the fuss, the vigorous activity that reigns there at this time.

Hundreds of wagons loaded from top to bottom with flowers come from all around Paris, hundreds of wagons carrying flowers from railway stations sent from Nice, Grasse, Lyon and other southern cities.

Whole hundreds, thousands of people are engaged in unloading, disassembling, arranging and selling flowers, other hundreds, thousands - buying, sorting and posting them around Paris.

The flowers taken from the carts are arranged here in beautiful groups on hastily knocked together stands, tables or directly on the floor, and each of the merchants tries to arrange their goods effectively and colorfully with the taste characteristic of all the French. And it turns out such a lovely picture, which, without seeing, it is difficult to imagine.

The charm of this picture is aggravated by that wonderful enchanting smell that comes from all these hundreds of thousands of flowers.

It strikes three o'clock in the morning, and trading begins. Of course, there are still no lovers: for them the hour is too early, and the main buyers are buyers who try to buy everything that is better and as cheap as possible, and then, having hired a place for themselves on the spot, they wait for the flowers to rise in price. , and then they sell them to peddlers and merchants in tents.

At nine o'clock the auction in the central market is already over and the sellers and buyers go home. The peddlers, having filled their carts to the top, disperse along the streets of Paris, the larger merchants carry the purchased goods to their tents, and the gardeners and gardeners, sweetly falling asleep under the canopies of their tents, go home.

But here ends only the first part of the flower trade. Now purchased flowers are transported (primarily) to nine flower markets.

All these markets have a very peculiar appearance of rows, open on one side, canvas tents or sheds, the inside of which is lined from top to bottom with pots placed on shelves and bouquets of flowers, most of which are wrapped in white or colored paper in the form of a large pound.

Among the merchandise thus arranged is a saleswoman in a warm sweater, with her feet placed on a heating pad. She loudly praises her product, drawing the attention of buyers to its wonderful freshness and quality - much higher than the products of her neighbors.

On warm, sunny spring days, when wealthy Parisians and rich foreigners have not yet left the city, these markets are especially beautiful. There are always such a mass of flowers and they are all so lovely that many buyers are at a loss what to choose.

But besides the markets just described, flowers still spread around the city thanks to the multitude of all kinds of flower peddlers and bouquet sellers, found everywhere, on all streets and boulevards.

One of the moribund types among them is the seller of flowers in a basket or wickerwork. He offers the public yellow daffodils, fragrant violets and, in general, the most modest flowers, picked, perhaps, somewhere in the forests around Paris. He sells them extremely cheaply and therefore finds buyers even among the poor, who, thanks to him, for a few pennies, get the opportunity to decorate their modest room with fresh flowers.

But the most popular florist in Paris is the so-called "merchant of the four seasons." He trades in flowers, vegetables, and sometimes even other goods, but he always mixes flowers with them.

His goods are placed in a small cart, which he rolls himself. Its main buyers are always those who, due to their duties or other circumstances, do not have the opportunity to leave home.

There are up to 4,000 such merchants in Paris itself, and about 2,000 in the vicinity. So, 6,000 merchants of this kind alone deliver flowers daily to Paris and its environs.

These are the cheapest of the mid-range flower dealers. Their kiosks are found everywhere: on all squares, streets and boulevards, where there can only be an audience.

Often these stalls are located near church porches, and merchants choose for sale flowers that serve to decorate the altar of the church, offering pious buyers to purchase them.

Some festivals are especially prized by the Parisian florists in the stalls - these are the holidays of the most popular saints among the people and, therefore, among the Parisians there are many who bear their name. And since in Paris it is customary to go to the birthday man, and especially to the birthday girl with a bouquet or a pot of flowers, so that these birthday people, dear to flower merchants, are not forgotten, in every kiosk among the plants you can always see a plate of the names of the most revered saints indicating the day celebration by the church.

But especially abundant in the number of flowers required, mostly only white, is May, called in Catholic countries the month of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Then in the churches daily mass is served in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos and altars, and sometimes even the whole church is decorated with white flowers. These flowers are purchased by pious parishioners, and many throughout the month take on this duty as a feat of piety.

As for those big flower shops that are our main center flower trade, then, of course, there are such in Paris, and, moreover, in much greater numbers, but they almost no longer use the flowers brought to the central market, but keep only rarer exotic plants or especially luxurious flowers bred in their own greenhouses and gardens.

The number of such shops in Paris reaches 500. At the same time, it is remarkable that almost all flower trade is carried out here exclusively by women.

The reasons for this are very clear: for the composition of boutonnieres, wreaths, bouquets, plateaus and all kinds of jardinières, a lot of taste, a lot of grace are required, and in this respect women, of course, are immeasurably superior to men.

For the most part, famous artists in arranging flower floors here are high-society ladies who are themselves present every morning when cleaning windows and shops with flowers and, surrounded by a whole crowd of assistants who carry out their orders, take an active part in it, if necessary. In the same way, they observe the performance of outstanding flower work and, in general, expensive orders that require special elegance.

That is why the floors of Parisian flower shops are a real pleasure for the eyes. They are especially striking in winter, when through the giant mirrored windows the gaze of the spectator, stiff from the cold, sees in front of him all the luxury of the tropics or the sultry south, enlarged by a skillful grouping of plants and a selection of flowers and accessories full of artistic taste. We should not forget the outstanding role that the beauty of a vase can play, the original style of a basket, jardinière, the color and luxury of a ribbon, and especially the originality, the effect of a bow or sling made from it, which, of course, is also a merit of a woman ...

The question is: how much is spent annually by Paris and its volatile foreign population on flowers?

This exact statistics answers the following.

AT good years 30,000,000 francs worth of flowers are imported into Paris. Of these, half is sent to the provinces and abroad, and the other half is distributed among the inhabitants of Paris and its environs. But this half still doubles its value, as it falls into the hands of merchants, of whom, of course, rich shops make the lion's share.

Thus, Parisians spend at least 30 million francs a year on flowers.

Who is the buyer of such a mass of flowers, for which, as can be calculated, an average of about 100,000 francs is spent daily?

They all disperse from hand to hand, to the homes of positively all of Paris.

Whoever you meet in Paris: whether a young girl, whether an elderly lady, whether a man, whether a child - you will almost see flowers in everyone either in their hands, or on their chests, or in their buttonholes.

If you enter the room of a modest worker or worker, you will see flowers on the window or in a glass. If you enter a rich house, you will see them not only placed everywhere in luxurious vases, jardinieres, but also decorating dining tables, living rooms, boudoirs and even stairs.

Flowers in Paris and the newborn is met, and the deceased is seen off. They decorate themselves with flowers when they go to the theater, to the ball, to the races. The birthday boy is greeted with flowers, the bride is cleaned, flowers are brought to the artists. They decorate the wedding premises, gala dinners, remove the carriages, clean the graves. In a word, there is no event, cheerful or sad, wherever they are.

But they are especially spent on the days of some special emergency celebrations: on the days of the flower festivals in the Bois de Boulogne, when they often pay 5-10,000 francs or more for decorating one carriage with flowers; in the days of brilliant opera performances; on the days of flower fights, where they are destroyed for hundreds of thousands of francs, and especially on the days of receiving foreign high-ranking guests.

So, for example, during the stay of Emperor Alexander III in Paris, at least 140-150,000 francs were spent on decorating the city and the interior of the city hall and palaces with flowers, during the first visit of Queen Victoria - more than 100,000 francs. And how many thousands of francs were spent on them during the reception of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896!

At Versailles, they say, at that time one hall of mirrors was decorated with whole thousand bouquets of jonquils, the Hercules hall was a huge greenhouse, all filled with carnations and primroses, and the large Louis XV hall, left to the Empress, was all decorated with roses and violets.

But most of all, the Parisians spent on flowers at the funeral of President Carnot. On this sad day for all of France, for bouquets, wreaths, decoration of a funeral chariot, hearse and graves, Paris paid a huge sum: more than half a million francs! ..

In addition, in Paris there are many eccentric rich foreigners who sometimes pay crazy money for rare flowers, just to show off the novelty.

So, for example, the famous millionaire Vanderbilt, once entering flower shop, learns that a one-of-a-kind chrysanthemum is for sale, expresses a desire to purchase it and pays 1,500 francs for one flower.

Or here is another example: like a storm, some foreigner flies into the store and, pointing at his watch, says: “It is 5 o’clock now, at 7 o’clock I need a basket of the rarest orchids by all means, but remember, exactly at 7 hours. What will it cost? And he pays thousands, even tens of thousands of francs for such a hasty order.

Modern Parisian flower seller.

But the Americans pay the most for flowers in Paris. One American, leaving for his homeland, wished that 7 boxes of different colors be sent to him on the ship, according to the number of days of moving to New York, so that every day his cabin would be cleaned with fresh new flowers, and, of course, he paid for this fantasy huge money.

Another, wanting to please his bride, sent her so many flowers that they had to be brought in several wagons...

Flower shop in today's Paris.

Each flower in Paris, let's say in conclusion, has its own meaning, its own language. Chrysanthemum expresses deep silent sadness; mistletoe, the flower of the ancient Gallic druids, is an eternal renewal, and therefore it is always given for good luck at Christmas and in New Year; the lily of the valley serves as an emblem of tenderness, a silent outpouring of the hearts of lovers, and therefore the day of his kingdom is May 1; rose - the emblem of worship and fiery love; violet - modesty and charm; carnation - burning feelings ...

Such is the role of flowers in Paris, in all of France, one might say, in the entire modern civilized world.