FEATURE - WORKING WITH THE LIVING
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BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MAIN GREENHOUSE • BY VALÉRIE LEVÉE
PHOTO Shutterstock/Marcel Derweduwen
At the end of February, the Jardin botanique's Main Greenhouse opened its doors for the spring event Garden of Oddness. In a true plant symphony where flamboyant, enigmatic, succulent, giant and other extravagant plants coexist, the public can admire the beautiful orange puffy flowers of Stifftia chrysantha, the strange flowers of Dorstenia bahiensis, the phylloclades of Muehlenbeckia platyclada and many other botanical curiosities. To put on this show, the Jardin botanique's horticultural team worked for many weeks, even months, running into a series of hurdles along the way.
