Patrick Blanc is both a botanist and an artist, world famous as the inventor of the Vertical Garden. His works have brought an incredible breath of fresh air to urban environments. He is a creator of well-being, changing our view of the cityscape, orchestrating and bringing art into the heart of the city, transforming concrete walls into refuges for biodiversity. Nobody is more familiar than Blanc with the secrets of these plants, from all over the world, that live on almost nothing, in the most unlikely situations, carpeting the forest under-story in semi-darkness or clinging to rocky cliff faces. From Paris to Bangkok, from New York to Singapore, Blanc invites nature to flourish on the walls of museums, shopping malls, private homes, big hotels, and skyscrapers. This is a unique book on the work of an amazing character who combines nature and artistic creations on vertical surfaces.