Élise Marchand returned from Lyon hotel work after watching lobby plants fail within a month of delivery. She measured a childhood court behind a Cimiez block: morning shade, pale walls, runoff rules posted on the stair door. The sketch that day became the studio method — light first, species second.
Field notes
Dated entries from the Promenade desk — how Sunny Common Botanicals grew into a Nice practice for rooms, sills, and courts.
Noémie Ravel joined after renovating narrow Vieux Nice flats where shutters and stone floors left little margin for oversized greenery. Together they refused jungle walls that block kitchen light and pots that stain antique parquet without trays.
The desk moved to 15 Promenade des Anglais so seafront visits and Cimiez bus rides share one morning. Drawings stay short: a room map, a vessel list, care notes timed to Nice seasons. Client photos remain private unless written permission says otherwise.
This site is framed as a 2026 botanical almanac. French and English conversations are welcome; invoices may be issued in French when required. Most clients are owners and long-term renters who want rooms to feel settled after a move or renovation.