Nature Capitale, a project by Gad Weil, is transforming the Champs Elysees into a gigantic garden this weekend to celebrate World Day of Biodiversity. Much like a Christo undertaking, the world’s most famous and commercial boulevard will have over 150 varieties of trees, plants, and forestry and most important of all, sans car traffic. Here are some of the staggering statistics: 152,009 plants have been planted to create the gardens for the forest exhibition of Nature Capitale.The nursery gardeners have supplied for the event: 54,912 varieties of Mediterranean forest seedlings (essentially Quercus, Cedar and Pine of Aleppo), 51,909 varieties of continental forest seedlings (essentially Quercus, Douglas,28,028 varieties of mountain forest seedlings (essentially Sorb of birds, Black and Sylvan pine, Epicea), amd 17,160 varieties of Atlantic forest (essentially Quercus, Pinus Pinaster and Pinus). The public has the opportunity to purchase 8,000 “fragments” to prolong the life of this garden beyond the three-day festive event.