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I’m a garden designer on tv and IRL. I’m also an author and entrepreneur who thinks she can save the world by teaching everyone a little something about landscape design.

In The Garden With: Delphine Gres of Paradis Express

I am excited to introduce you to Delphine Gitterman of France who creates one of my favorite blogs Paradis Express— This is her self description:
I’m 31 years old. I’m french.

I’m an Art Director for Graphic Design and print.

I live with a french garden designer and photographer named Lucien.

I have an 18 years old son.

I have 2 cats and I have also have a Parrot named Raton since 35 years. It’s a female, she hates women.

My german grand father was mad about greenery but at home, plants were forbidden by his wife because of the dirt. He has a secret garden, far away from his home. The family says that he had often some germinated seeds in his pockets.

guerilla gardening motorcycle

I am an occasional guerilla gardener. A French television station did a story about it and
we were filmed with my friend throwing seedbombs riding our big motorbike.

pontouse france delphone glitterman home

I live in a very old house, quiet a ruin, but with a gorgeous garden. Our neighbours would
like us to finish restoring the house before creating the garden. But we didn’t. We prefer
to invest our money in greenery.

french garden of delphine glitterman

I « collect » garden designers ! Some people would be capable of the photographed with Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt, i would not. But I can make extravagant things for a photo with Topher Delaney (yes, Rochelle, I saw your picture with her! I’m jealous! ) or Piet Oudolf. The photo that I’m most proud of? A picture with Patrick Blanc, Creator of the first vertical gardens. He has green hairs.

patrick lebanc and delphine glitterman

I’ve always lived in an area with a very rich cultural past in matters of gardens. This may be partly an explanation for my passion. I live in Pontoise, which is 34 km away from Paris (21 miles). You can find some «  impressionist gardens » in my town.  I live 50km away from Monet’s garden in Giverny (30 miles),  7 km away from Auvers sur Oise, the village is devoted to Van Gogh (4 miles) and 45 km from Versailles and its huge castle and gardens (28 miles).

My parents were both artists. My father was a german painter and decorator. My Mother is ceramist and still continue to make pottery despite her blindness and her age (she’s 78 !). I have had a green childhood. My family had an huge house, full tropical plants, like a jungle for me when i was a kid. In the living room, my father had 12 parrots, flying free between the alocasias.

ceramics by the mother of delphine glitterman
My father was hypnotized by the United State and passionate about american movies. This may be the explanation for my passion for american gardens and garden designers, no? I’ve never been to the United States, except one week in New York. I love this city but i confess, i love Paris very much too.

My Favorite things: Delphine Glitterman

Bali lake palace
image by Lucien Gres
1) Tirtaganga, a water palace in Bali, Indonesia. My favorite place on Earth.
2) Tony Duquette’s residences : Los Angeles residence, Dawnridge & a sprawling Malibu estate, both destroyed in fires. Duquette was an internationally acclaimed artist and designer in the1940’s .


3) François Houtin’s imaginary gardens. A french printmaker and also a garden designer. I could spend hours looking at his creations.
4) The fern and especially the tree fern. Dicksonia Antartica is my favorite and is the only one to resist to our french cold climate.

What do you do to find inspiration?

To find inspiration, i collect pictures from gardens of all over the world in my blog and i
spend hours looking at my treasures. 3 years ago, i did notice that this collection was inspirational for many other people than me : landscape designers, gardeners and artists from everywhere. I enjoy this very much.

Best Garden or Design Advice Ever (Given or Received)?
We must all continue to stay mobilized for the planet and its future. The only advice i
could give is to promote the practices of environmentally friendly gardening in NYC, in
Paris, in Mexico or in Moscow, everywhere in the world.
« un jardin beau,oui, mais un jardin bio *»
* french expression. Could be compared to « organic is orgasmic »

click through to see more images of Delphines garden of miniatures and peonies as well as her mother’s beautiful ceramics.

 

 

 

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  1. Megan says:

    I love Delphine and her blog!!!! She’s reblogged us too 🙂

  2. My proudest moments as a blogger are the times Delphine reblogged my images. I’m a big fan.

  3. Delphine has reblogged my images often and is one of my ardent supporters. I love her site. I can spend hours on there. It’s gardening pornography at its best. Next time I’m in her neighborhood (I actually was once) I want MY photo taken with her!

  4. Delphine says:

    Hi everybody,

    Thank you Rochelle, and thank you Craig, Jim, Megan and all my foreign gardener friends ! I feel very happy after your kind and warm words. You are all so talentuous, amazing people. Paradis Express is your territory, YOU make the blog live, with your gardens, your ideas, your pictures.
    I hope to meet you in the real life one day, in France or in the US.

    As your prefer, you choose : lunch in Giverny or dinner in Lotusland ?

  5. Denise says:

    Thank you so much for allowing us a peek behind the virtual curtain at the fabulous Delphine!

  6. dana says:

    ….
    my daily inspiration
    grazie delphine
    e grazie rochelle

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