Last but not least: Said through the flower
If you want to get a message across to the public—literally—through flowers, you have to be patient. Not only because the plants have to grow first, but also because our beloved homeland is suffering from an acute split in consciousness.
If you want something to reach the public literally through the flower, you have to exercise patience. Not only because the green stuff has to grow first, but because the beloved fatherland is suffering from acute split consciousness.Yes! - No! - I insist! - Never! And so it goes on in the fight for permission to play music after 22h, to display thongs, to paint the wall of one's own house or even to unfold buds into a fragrant advertising subject. For, if a little vegetation springs from the Helvetic soil, one resorts to the heavy democratic artillery: lawsuits, decisions, objections, decrees, annulments, appeals... The best part? Every canton - and if you are lucky, every commune - disagrees and fights body and soul (even a canton can be personified, since it is known to have a spirit) for its solution, which is naturally quite different and much wiser than that of the strangers next door.
For us Swiss, it's not about the length. It's only really enjoyable when you've rubbed shoulders with as many instances as possible, taken a position on every piece of crap and delayed the grand finale for half an eternity. The Agro company Agrola also had to learn this at its own expense. Almost two years ago, it sowed the Bernese Grauholz, whereupon an original advertisement of grass, grain, rape and flowers sprouted from the ground. A year ago, and after a good many administrative intermediary steps, the 320-meter-long lettering had to be mowed down in response to a court ruling. Now, according to the Bernese newspaper, SVP politician Rudolf Joder Joder is demanding general approval of field advertising. With the administrative law jungle infested with paper tigers, a national solution probably won't thrive so quickly...
Natalie Favre
For us Swiss, it's not about the length. It's only really enjoyable when you've rubbed shoulders with as many instances as possible, taken a position on every piece of crap and delayed the grand finale for half an eternity. The Agro company Agrola also had to learn this at its own expense. Almost two years ago, it sowed the Bernese Grauholz, whereupon an original advertisement of grass, grain, rape and flowers sprouted from the ground. A year ago, and after a good many administrative intermediary steps, the 320-meter-long lettering had to be mowed down in response to a court ruling. Now, according to the Bernese newspaper, SVP politician Rudolf Joder Joder is demanding general approval of field advertising. With the administrative law jungle infested with paper tigers, a national solution probably won't thrive so quickly...
Natalie Favre
