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Terraces, balconies, vegetable gardens ... The French return to the garden

2020-05-07T19:18:31.640Z


SURVEY - During this confinement period, 6 out of 10 French people were able to enjoy a garden. A unique opportunity to rediscover how much a corner of greenery can be a source of pleasure, wonder and well-being.


Seven weeks in secret ... This forced confinement for all, 60% of French people lived in a house with a garden. Tiny or larger, these private plots divided the inhabitants of France into two camps: those who could fully enjoy the spring nose in the wind, barefoot in the grass and those, mainly urban, who did not under eyes that bitumen flowers. Being in a cabin or enjoying a cabin: city residents often envied their cousins ​​in the fields. Deprived of the parks whose gates remained closed, of the family gardens, more or less accessible, they had to be satisfied with the pocket natures rooted on a window sill, a balcony or a terrace ... for the lucky ones.

Lack of oxygen

Obviously, the urban population lacked oxygen. No wonder that: more and more of them are planting the smallest square meter of sidewalks, pricking themselves in gardening, installing miniature vegetable gardens, including in their kitchens. In the

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Source: lefigaro

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