verdure

Roaming among the trees, admiring the verdure, he saw a crowd of daisies clustered above him, like gigantic stars, and decided to cut one down and present his wife with a pretty parasol.

Their posters aimed to scare people straight with pictures of ecological ruin, or glorified nature, clean air and water, sunshine and verdure.

The group includes Juliska’s Jardins du Monde ceramics glazed in Veronica Beard’s choice of forest green, which the company calls verdure.

While tourists have returned in full force to Paris, with crowds thronging the major monuments in the city center, Bagatelle offers intriguing heritage, a chateau born of a bet with Marie Antoinette, and 59 acres of verdure about five miles from the Notre-Dame cathedral.

“It was not merely green; it was frantically green. It was so bright in its verdure that the color nearly spoke, as though — smashing through the world of sight — it wanted to migrate into the world of sound,” Gilbert writes.