Echium and daisies on the Petite Ceinture
Red valerian in Père Lachaise cemetery
Wildflowers meet formality – Hôtel de Soubise, Paris – June 2015
Yellow flag irises by the waterside in Parc Martin Luther King
Purple loosestrife in Jardin Charles Trenet
Pink mallows by the Canal St Denis

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Central Paris isn’t the obvious place to look for native wild flowers but there’s a surprising variety to be found.  Some are self sown and are overlooked or welcomed, others are deliberately planted to enhance biodiversity.  Waterside planting of native species in the new Parc Martin Luther King is as eye catching as any ornamental flower bed and in summer the stony track-bed of the disused Petite Ceinture  railway is bright with colourful wildflowers.

 

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