Hortario comes to France: 96 departments and 24 new plants

Hortario now works in France: a calendar for each of the 96 departments of mainland France, including Corsica, grouped by region.

For each department we use Météo-France climate normals from a reference station, usually the prefecture or the nearby airport. Where no table is published, we use a neighbouring department’s station and say so on the page. Dates for sowing, planting, feeding and treatment follow the climate zone: oceanic in Brittany and along the Atlantic, Mediterranean in the south and Corsica, continental in the east and centre, and mountain in the Massif Central and the Alps.

24 more plants typical of French gardens. Vegetables and herbs: turnip, parsnip, salsify, sorrel, rhubarb, chervil, tarragon and celeriac. Fruit: blackcurrant and mirabelle plum. Garden: lilac, peony, dahlia, tulip, daffodil, butterfly bush, forsythia, clematis, hornbeam, yew, thuja, Japanese maple, hollyhock and mimosa.

The France pages are available in all 8 of the site’s languages. In the app, pick your department in the “France” group.