71 years since D-Day... Incredible. Anyway, yesterday you saw a tractor in the palace gardens. Today you see what the tractor was doing: bringing various citrus trees from the palace orangerie where they spent the winter to make very neat rows of planters next to the dragon fountain which you had seen here and here (and can just about see at the end of the row in the second photo)! Each tree in its planter has a numbered tag attached to it! VDP was amazed at how many varieties of lemon trees there were, in different stages of ripening!
71 ans depuis le débarquement... Incroyable. Quoi qu'il en soit, hier vous avez vu le tracteur dans les jardins du château. Aujourd'hui, vous voyez le parfait alignement d'orangers et de citronniers de l'orangerie installé près du bassin du dragon que VDP vous montrait ici et là ! Il y a là un nombre impressionnant de citronniers d'espèces différentes, avec certains fruits presque arrivés à maturité et d'autres encore minuscules et tout verts !
The fragrance of the orange blossoms was totally intoxicating!
Le parfum des fleurs d'oranger était envoûtant !
What lovely photos!
ReplyDeleteI bet there were some bees on those trees. :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, so elegant, so stylish, must be France...
ReplyDeleteAh, orange trees. Who would have thought they were grown in boxes. Looks great.
ReplyDeleteI knew those things were planters! Now that's an orange/lemon/lime grove!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos, too!
That 's wonderful, Ciel! I was in Florida once at orange blossom time and I always remember how beautiful the scent of the blossoms was.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful, and portable, citrus grove.
ReplyDeleteI do miss citrus trees.
ReplyDeleteAn impressive work, well documented!
ReplyDeletePerçoit-on une difference dans les parfums ?
ReplyDeleteQuel travail !
That's a busy tractor! Regarding D Day, my father was part of the D Day landings and actually died on June 6th, 49 years after the event.
ReplyDeleteCitrus perfume in the air and in your pictures.
ReplyDeleteFresh squeezed?
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun tradition! I'll never forget about the orange trees now!
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GDP
Do you know why some planter boxes are white while most are green?
ReplyDeleteJune 6th---D-Day
ReplyDeleteOrange is my color this year in a part of the garden--no orange trees though
MB
Wonderful photos of the trees! Makes me wonder what they do with the fruit.
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ReplyDeleteCiel, do you mean they do this every year? I never thought about it but it seems both lemon and orange trees can't stand the snow after all.
ReplyDeleteBtw, do you know the orange was brought from China by the Portuguese on the 16th century? That's why the name is very similar to the word "Portugal" in countries like Greece, Turkey or Romania. I only realized it when I was in Istanbul. :-)
@ Susan: no I don't!
ReplyDelete@ Sharon: freshly squeezed orange juice sold in the palace gardens. I've always wondered if all of the oranges they use come from the palace though, it seems like they would need a lot more.
@ JM: Yes, they get them out of the orangerie to the orangerie parterre. It's the first time I've seen them in this specific location of the gardens though. And no, I didn't know, thanks for the info!
We have one little lemon tree in a pot and my wife is now wanting to have her own orangerie... alas there is no place for one. Nice series of shots to tell the story!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty area, Ciel!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful 'avenue' approach to the sculpture Ciel.. attractive, aromatic AND edible, couldn't get more perfect! This is my idea of proper stylish :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lot of work! But so worth it!
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