High-rise hopes

When a young Patric Blanc hung plants from his bedroom wall and dangled their roots into his fish tank, he probably didn??t realise the impact his ´vertical gardens´ would have on the world. Fifty years on, the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique botanist and Laureate of the French academy of Sciences, has just unveiled his 156th creation, a ??370,000 indoor garden climbing up the wall of an office block lobby in Singapore.