Swiss Hill, Place du Tunnel
A futuristic example of a bus shelter.
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Plant Lines, Passage Mercier
Plants bond across an urban canyon.
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Bubbles, Promenade Derrière-Bourg
Like giant bubbles on a grass carpet.
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Place de l’Europe
The exhibition has left traces all over the city, like the plant roof and side of the public transport company's customer centre – a souvenir of Lausanne Jardins 2009.
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Aucupare, Terrasse du Petit-Chêne
A nursery in transit.
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Micro-Cosmos, Place Chauderon
A garden amid cobblestones. Cosmos are docile flowers but they acclimatise badly.
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Rolling Garden, Chemin du Frêne
Another plant solution for the greening of a building front. Again the acclimatisation didn't work quite as planned.
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Outbreak, Fontaine Rue Neuve
The flagship exhibit in 2014. Just grass.
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Garden Collective, Basilique Notre-Dame
A forest made from plastic bags.
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N’POD, Place de l’Hermitage
Plants in a bubble combine an urban environment with fragility.
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Tohu Bohu, Coteau de Couvaloup
A green meteorite-like exhibit.
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Par monts et par vaux, Cathédrale
Six blocks of marble create an alpine micro landscape.
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Botanic Box, Tour Edipresse
A piece of jungle in a box appears out of nowhere.
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Rue des Deux-Marchés
Lausanne Jardins exhibit or not? This city dweller tests a window escape route.
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The Lausanne Jardins horticultural exhibition is playful, astonishing, artistic and experimental at once, a promenade in the steep twisting streets of the old town where plants unexpectedly sprout at every corner. (Pictures and text: Marc-André Miserez, swissinfo.ch)
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