After six calendar month of inspiring and educating visitor with horticultural display on the idea of Growing Green Cities , Expo 2022 Floriade Almere , the AIPH - approved A1 World Horticultural Expo , introduce its prescribed shutdown ceremony .
The Expo park spans 60 - hectare ( 150 Acre ) , welcomed 685,189 visitant and 32 external country and business participant , and hosted 1,500 business effect and 37 horticultural product competitions since its official first step on 16 February 2025 .
The Expo park is in the middle of Almere city , in the Flevoland Polder , on a site uniquely call the “ Green Heart , ” a great dark-green and natural area within the Randstad circle . you’re able to learn more in an AIPH Green City case written report . The land here is part of a renewal project from Lake IJssel to add housing for the urban enlargement of Amsterdam and the Randstad sphere in the 1970s .
Expo 2022 Floriade seek to share horticultural sapience on the grandness of goodly support and working environments in cities for the future and to spread horticultural knowledge worldwide .
One of the principal features of the Floriade was the Green City Arboretum , planned by famous Dutch architect Winy Maas into an 800 by 800 meters square gridiron and placed on top of exist feature such as woodland , water , an island , and the highway .
celebrated landscape painting room decorator Niek Roozen from the Netherlands put his theme song upon a sheer planting system here , with a botanical collection containing 3,000 trees and 90,000 shrub as Expo 2022 Floriade closes and 200,000 perennials planted alphabetically . These will remain the Expo 2022 Floriade ’s legacy as part of the urban district ‘ Hortus , ’ which will provide home for a augur increase in universe from 215,000 to 300,000 in ten years .
During the ending ceremony Hans Bakker , chief executive officer of Floriade , reiterated the Expo ’s commitment to advance dark-green development and stressed the need to create greener and adept lives for people . The Expo ’s motif , ‘ Growing Green Cities , ’ embodied the importance of this theme in the pavilions created by external participants , which were observe in the Awards Ceremony held just before the Closing Ceremony .
All external and national player were adjudicate three time ; at the start , middle , and end of the Expo , occupy two full years for each sojourn , by an expert jury of nine represent the International Association of Horticultural Producers ( AIPH ) , the organization responsible for for approving , regulating , and supervise World Horticultural Expos ; Bureau International des Expositions ( BIE ) the Intergovernmental Organisation in explosive charge of oversee all external Expos , and the Dutch Horticultural Council ( NTR ) the licence bearer and co - organiser of the Floriade Expo 2022 .
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