The latest trends in urban and home gardening on display in Paris

(31 May 2013)
Paris – May 30, 2013
1. Wide left pan of people walking towards “Le Baobab” garden project
2. Mid tilt-up of the baobab
3. Mid of a woman walking under the water arch in “Invert D’H20” garden project
4. Mid tilt-up of a modern fountain installation
5. Rack focus of plants and a water jet
6. Zoom out of water drops on foxgloves to the mirror reflecting Pierre-Alexandre Risser, landscaper and co-founder of Jardins, jardin, talking to visitors
7. Wide right pan from “Le Jardin plaisir” (The Pleasure garden) garden project to a visitor taking photos.
8. Wide setup shot of Pierre-Alexandre Risser in a porch swing in his “Le Jardin plaisir” project
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Pierre-Alexandre Risser, landscaper and co-founder of Jardins, jardin:
“For ten years now, the city-dweller wants to live outdoors, he needs it, it’s his lungs, his oxygen, he needs to be able to get away from his everyday life where he lives the whole year round between 19�C and 25�C, in air conditioning, in which all he does is pressing buttons of his computer, smartphone and coffee machine. His biological clock needs to get back to an authentic natural sensations and he finds that in the garden.”
10. Mid of Pierre-Alexandre Risser touching flowers
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Pierre-Alexandre Risser, landscaper and co-founder of Jardins, jardin:
“The new trendy elements are everything we call “the outdoor”: exterior shower, hot tubs, saunas, swimming pools, swing porch, tree house, suspended shed, henhouse, raised vegetable garden. Vegetable gardens have been very trendy for last five years and the new trend is to have a hen in your garden.”
12. Wide of henhouse
13. Close of a hen and a rooster
14. Wide of “Aux fraises et caetera” garden project
15. Mid of a man closing the greenhouse with radish
16. Wide pan from visitors talking to the “Chat-Pot(s)” project
17. Mid rack focus of pot with herbs emitting steam
18. Mid rack focus of flowers
19. Wide of “Dadagreen”, Innovation Contest winner project
20. Mid setup shot of Paule Kindleur (on the left), Innovation Contest winner, and a visitor.
21. SOUNDBITE (French) Paule Kindleur, Innovation Contest winner:
“Now we can imagine urban agriculture so why not imagine small vegetable patches to be placed on urban furniture that are to be found on every sidewalk and that have no other purpose than prohibiting so the people who live in the cities can take over it to fill it with plants.”
22. Wide pan of “Dadagreen” sacks on urban furniture
23. Wide of garden drinking fountains
24. Mid of garden drinking fountains with flowers
25. Zoom out from logs to a modern barbecue installation
26. Wide of outdoor furniture
27. Wide of path with visitors
28. Mid of visitors with umbrellas
29. Wide setup shot of Louise Givort, visitor from Paris.
30. SOUNDBITE (French) Louise Givort, visitor from Paris:
“The diversity of flowers, the colours, the mirror-like objects, the beautiful stones, nice gravel, the pebbles, small water installations, either waterfalls or fountains�it’s marvellous.”
31. Wide right pan from garden furniture to children playing with trees planted in spinning-tops.
32. Wide of “L’Instant Grand Si�cle” garden project.
33. Mid of wall of roses.
34. Wide pan of Tuileries Garden.
LEAD IN:
A return to nature and a simpler way of life is a key trend at the annual urban gardening expo in Paris.
From hen houses to vegetable the French are enjoying the romance of the great outdoors.
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