This year the preparations for Floriade Expo 2022 shift into another gear as we’re gradually approaching the opening date. Recently the artwork ‘Bobbing Forest’ was installed at the Floriade site. The artwork symbolizes the future of people and nature in the city, which is under great pressure as a result of the rising sea level. Below you’ll find footage of the end result. The next edition of Floriade Dialogues in which current issues regarding sustainability are discussed will take place soon. Will you join us? Lastly, if you enjoy spectacular bird's-eye views, you’ll be excited to hear Floriade will have a cable car. Continue reading…

Floriade cable car

Visitors of Floriade will enjoy a spectacular 5-minute ride experience from an 850 meters long ropeway above the park. Just imagine the fantastic bird’s eye view you will have of the arboretum enriched with trees, plants, shrubs and flower borders, the expo plots for the international exhibits and all other places of interest.

Bobbing Forest arrived

One of Holland’s most unique sustainable life artwork projects was added to the Expo: ‘The Bobbing Forest’. It consists of 20 recycled sea buoys filled with 20 Dutch elm trees. Visitors can view the art installation from the cable car, the tour boat and from the terrace on the Weerwater.

Floriade Dialogue #11

This Floriade Dialogue edition is all about ‘Analysing and understanding the value of Urban and Regional Waste’. During the webinar we will discuss the importance of data in Sustainable Resource Management and City Material Flow Mapping. Understanding the City and Regional Material Flows means understanding the value, economic benefits and incentives for growing green cities.

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Arboretum enriched

The arboretum will constitute the Expo’s green structure and will be an alphabetically organised tree, flower and plant encyclopaedia that you can walk through. Recently it has been enriched with Black pines and Poplar trees among other. In the coming weeks we will also set out chestnut trees, small potted Eucalypthus and Japanese cedar trees.

Young talents bid farewell

Floriade Academy has been involving young talent in the organisation of Floriade Expo 2022 since September 2018. This month the latest group of students successfully completed their internships. An accomplishment they can be proud of. We would like to thank all interns and wish them all the best in the continuation of their education and future careers.