In China, orchids are considered one of the ‘four gentlemen’ of the plant world. Find out why at an orchid festival in Hong Kong – as well as how to avoid buying an illegally harvested wild specimen.
Extinction message in artist Zheng Bo’s floral exhibition – ‘We need to learn how to live with other species,’ he says
We have got to stop seeing the world from a human-first perspective, the artist argues, or the mass extinction event under way in nature will wipe us out too
Amid a lush tropical garden, he has trained ferns and orchids that grow wild in Hong Kong around bamboo frames that literally spell out his exhibition’s title