Marchés Floralies, or flower markets, are a village’s celebration of spring in the form of a flower and pottery market. There have already been a few in Provence but as the weather becomes warmer the variety of plants available as well as vendors increase.
Floralies à Maussane in the Alpilles
I got a bit excited at Maussane les Alpilles’ Flower market on Easter Monday. I bought all my plants and flowers for the summer perhaps a bit too soon. The tomato plants weren’t happy about being brought inside at night for a couple weeks. However, I think they’re starting to forgive me now…
Large Variety of Plants
There are many extensive garden centres here in Provence but they often stock extensive amounts of the same varieties of flowers. This is somewhat forgivable seeing as there are only certain plants that can survive in the Provençale July heat. The Floralies marchés often offer a larger variety as well as some exotic plants. Many of the sellers have grown the plants themselves in their own greenhouses. They can tell you the detailed care each plant may need.
Every type of tree you can grow in Provence grown from cuttings painstakingly gathered by this vendor
Even if you don’t have an outdoor space to squeeze a few plants, walking along the streets of Provençale villages inundated with colourful flowers is a wonderful justification for a day out!
Villages often will have farm animals of all varieties on display- check out this handsome rooster…
If you have kids or seem to have a thing for silly farm animals like me, something to look out for is pairings of the Transhumance and Floralies festivals together.
Looks beautiful
We don’t have so many of these flower markets around here. There are plenty of flower festivals celebrating a certain type of flower like roses in Grasse or mimosa in Mandelieu where that particular flower is available for sale but not just generic flower markets. Your one looks lovely. Thanks for linking to #AllAboutFrance