Author: Joseph Krey
The passion of gardening from Europe to Asia
October 25, 2018This is a first: France and China have formed a partnership around learning gardening in schools. With the 2015-2016 school year, 22,000 children from French-speaking schools in Beijing were introduced to the joys of growing flowers and vegetables, while at the same time, in France, the 17th edition of gardening in schools was getting ready. Beijing renews […]
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Svalbard: Noah’s ark of seeds
October 25, 2018It may seem paradoxical to keep seeds in a safe frozen 1000 km from the North Pole. In this place where nothing grows, the seed bank of Svalbard, located in Norway, is mainly a “rescue bank”! In situ and ex situ collections More than 1,500 gene banks store seeds or vegetative organs around the world. From the smallest to the largest, some […]
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Cucurbitaceae: a generous and colorful botanical family
October 11, 2018Since the 90s, in France we associate the period of All Saints to Halloween, a party from across the Atlantic. On the evening of October 31, everything is good to be scared: skeletons, ghosts, witches, zombies … and grinning pumpkins! Squash and pumpkins are indeed kings in this season: their colors brighten market stalls, and pumpkin dug […]
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Grass Cultivation – Today, grass makes life easier!
October 11, 2018What a pleasure to find, at the awakening of spring, its dense lawn in the garden … Modern grass varieties simplify our life: less weeding, less mowing, fewer holes in the lawn Grass to avoid weeding With the ban on the use of synthetic plant protection products from 2019, if you are a gardener you […]
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