After the city of Beringen in Belgium in 2020 , Nantes in France gain ground the 2nd edition of the European Green Cities Award , organise by the European Nurserystock Association ( ENA ) within the framework of the promotional project ‘ Green Cities Europe ’ .
Le Jardin Extraordinaire , from old Edward Durell Stone fair game to lush parkLe Jardin extraordinaire or 101st garden of Nantes has become an attraction . The former Miséry stone quarry has been transformed into a exuberant garden . Thanks to a rich flora pallet with amongst others Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree fern , century - old common ivy , and banana trees , an alien ambience is created , adapted to the pre - existing microclimate on situation . A amble with seven viewpoints links the park to Nantes ’ hustle Chantenay territorial dominion .
The jury was clear : " This future tense - proof concept enhances the economical and cultural attraction of the city of Nantes and brings masses together in a societal environment . Jardin Extraordinaire is a perfect model of close cooperation between landscape architects , designers , and industrial plant growers . The integration of biodiversity with a well - conceive plant selection and waterfall all link in the exist landscape painting is consider very innovative . "
Le Jardin Extraordinaire competed in this year ’s competition with 12 other projects from Belgium , Bulgaria , Denmark , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , The Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , and Sweden .
European Parliament enlisted ambassador of the Green Cities projectThe award ceremony took place during an online European Green Cities Conference . Landscapers and other stakeholders in light-green environment all over Europe get a line how member of the European Parliament Mr. Norbert Lins , Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development , and Mr. César Luena , Vice - Chair of the Committee on the Environment , Public Health and Food Safety , expressed the importance of greener European cities as a meaning part of the European Biodiversity Strategy .
" As climate change event are already affect our living conditions negatively , and as these effects will go forward to exasperate , we need to increase nature and green solutions in city in social club to improve city , population , and services resilience . For this , I support ambitious bind butt on urban biodiversity , nature - free-base solution , and fleeceable base in cities , " said César Luena , Vice - Chair of the Committee on the Environment , Public Health and Food Safety in the European Parliament
" For a long prison term , perhaps too foresighted , urban center and rural surface area have been seen as opposite , but only if we succeed in bringing more countryside into the urban center and more city into the countryside , can we encounter the large challenge of our time , " Norbert Lins , Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Parliament .
get word more about the Green Cities project and Award onthegreencities.eu .
