The English Park is located on the shores of a lake in Geneva and is designed in the English traditional style. English traditional style. The essence of this style is reflected in the smooth, straight avenues, white stone sculptures, and special tree planting. In the park there are several busts and a magnificent fountain. several busts and a magnificent fountain by A. André. On one of the two huge boulders protruding above the surface of the lake depicts a detailed map of Switzerland.
The famous flower clock, one of the symbols of the city, is also located in the English Park. The idea of the flower clock was born in ancient Greece: the flowers of different plants open and close. different plants have flowers that open and close at different times of the day, which means that you can select plants so that you can tell roughly what time it is blooming. the time. The idea to recreate such a clock came to Carl Linnaeus. Linnaeus was keen to get students interested in the biological rhythms of plants and flowers. Long before the scientist had been studying floristics and had even written a book about it. book.
In 1903, the first Geneva floral clock was installed, a copy of a of Linnaeus's design. And it's not just a decoration - they have a moving hand in them. The whole mechanism is hidden under the flower arrangement, and the dial is the flower bed itself. flower bed. The modern clock, placed in the park, was installed in 1955, its diameter is 5 metres. 5 metres in diameter. Every year the "design" of the clock changes and for this purpose it uses 6,500 varieties of flowers, in fact, every month the colour palette changes completely. changes every month.
Geneva's floral clock is also remarkable because it is a reminder of the city's the city's recognised supremacy in the Swiss watchmaking industry and demonstrates a specific unity of technical elements. a specific fusion of technical, design and horticultural elements.
