The city’s botanical gardens invite the public to explore their 28-hectare expanse, free of charge, all year long. Visitors can partake in informative guided tours to deepen their understanding of the botanical world, or engage in workshops and activities thoughtfully designed for children.
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.
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.
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