Step into a lush jungle garden and explore winding paths under towering leaves. Listen to rustling foliage, feel humid air, and spot bright flowers and strange shapes. A guided walk with the garden team reveals how plants adapt, resist cold winds, and cope with climate change. Kids will ask questions, observe textures and colors, and imagine rainforest stories while learning how experiments help plants survive. This lively exploration mixes discovery, nature science, and playful curiosity.
In French.
An outdoor project presenting works by various contemporary artists sited throughout a public garden. The exhibition stages a dialogue between art and landscape through sculptural and outdoor works that reveal changing relationships of scale, material and season. Using diverse materials and formats, the pieces question how context reshapes meaning, inviting close looking and unexpected encounters along pathways. The show considers the poetic and civic dimensions of placing art in nature, and the stories objects bring into shared outdoor spaces.
In French.
Explore autumn’s hidden mushroom life on wooded paths and mossy ground, bending close to inspect caps, gills and mycelial threads. This hands-on walk reveals fruiting bodies popping from leaf litter and decaying wood, with an attentive pace that invites curiosity and discovery. Learn to recognize fungal morphology, distinguish common species, and understand their vital roles in decomposition and symbiosis with trees. Energetic but accessible, the outing blends sensory observation with collective curiosity, offering a close-up encounter with a vital, often overlooked world.
In French.
Explore the hidden world of autumn fungi as you walk through leaf litter and shaded paths, spotting fruiting bodies visible to the naked eye. Feel the earthy aromas and study the varied shapes, colors and textures that reveal different lifestyles—decomposers, symbionts with trees, and more. Through close observation you’ll learn basic morphology and how to differentiate species while appreciating their vital roles in ecosystems. An immersive, sensory experience that connects you with life unfolding beneath our feet.
In English.
Baroness Julie Caroline de Rothschild’s 19th‑century greenhouse, built in the 1880s from Canadian Pitch Pine, presents a living archive of botanical rarities. Succulents, palms, citrus and orchids stand alongside the iron-and-glass architecture, revealing intersections between horticulture, material craft and colonial-era plant collecting. The greenhouse’s preserved structure and curated plant collections evoke histories of taste, conservation and botanical display. Gardeners who tend the living holdings continue a dialogue between historical legacy and contemporary stewardship.
Andreas Ensslin, scientist at the Geneva Botanic Garden, presents current research on seed conservation and genetic diversity in threatened plant species across changing climates.
This guided session examines challenges seed banks face as climates shift, investigating viability, evolutionary mismatch, and the limits of long-term frozen storage. Ensslin discusses implications for restoration, adaptive strategies, and how conservation practice must respond to ensure seeds remain useful for future ecosystems.
Ages 12 and up. In French.
Culture, curated weekly.
Event removed from your CoolAgenda.
Your password has been reset successfully. You can now log in with your new password.
We’ve sent you a password reset email to the address provided. Please check your inbox and/or spam folder.
Please check your inbox for a verification email to complete your sign-up.
