Bosco Verticale

WOW! This is such a fab idea for greening our cities. I would love to see this kind of planting and building integrated in this way more. We need to encourage biodiversity in order to improve our quality of life and to preserve all pollinating insects, particularly the honey bee. Perhaps we could have high rise meadows and wild flowers... if the little critters can fly that high of course! Find out more about the architect Stefano Boeri here.

When I saw this pattern on the pomme-de-jour blog, I had an instant warm flashback to when I was a child. Around 1970 or 1971, my mother cut out some of these colourful, bold graphic flowers and pasted them onto my white toybox. I still feel very fond of the pattern - there is someting of the Spirograph about it too. (ahh! Spirograph, now that is another post).