2022 – Miyawaki Planting in Paris – Porte Maillot

Before

After 18 months

Planting period: February 2022

m²

plants

volunteers

This planting was made possible thanks to the cooperation of three players: the City of Paris, whose green space agents were involved not only in the preparation, but also in the running of the planting days, students from the 13th year of the CSR and SD Master’s program at the Ecole des Mines ParisTech, and the Boomforest association.

Planting location: hillock along Avenue Salonique, north of Porte Maillot, Paris 17

GPS coordinates : 48.88247,2.28365

The planting in pictures

Site situation before planting and ground preparation

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Situation of the site before planting: a large mound of fill, covered by a lawn maintained by the city's services

A month before planting, the soil is turned and amended thanks to the coordination of the Tree Departement of Paris

Now the site is ready, all that's left to do is to mark out the zones where groups of volunteers can gather... and there's sure to be lots of them!

Straw transportation should not be underestimated, depending on how easy it is to get to the site... !

Planting in February 2022

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Symbolic opening of the site: Boomforest and Manisha, from the CSR and Sustainable Development Master's program at Mines ParisTech, who launched the idea for this project with her group!

City of Paris green space technicians were on hand to train volunteers and pass on their experience to the general public

Thanks to the work of École des Mines students, classes from nearby schools were invited to come and plant. Here, an explanation of how to plant a tree.

Photo © Frédéric Combeau

Diligent and motivated, the children started planting in the sunshine!

The adults took over for the next two days, but some of the students came back, caught up in the game

A real shake-up for this little-noticed embankment in the neighborhood

Some people will tell you that spreading mulch is difficult and tiring. Talk to Guillaume!

Évolution du site au fil du temps

3 months later, the mound is gradually being transformed... life has already returned, stronger than before. What will become of the little trees?

First weeding and follow-up with the children who came to plant: the straw allowed many of the seeds it contained to grow, which was a bit of a surprise, but nothing dramatic.

July 2022

A year later, weeding and monitoring: the trees are growing well!

A year and a half later: we didn't come for nothing!