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Iran - Persian Gardens. Gardens of Myth and Literature. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. Ah, the gardens of Iran. Pictured in my mind’s eye were the celestial paradises of the Koran in which flowers bloom, fruit ripens, and man and beasts live in harmony. I pictured the romantic gardens of Persian poets - The rose has flushed red, the bud has burst, and drunk with joy is the nightingale, wrote the 14. Pictured, too, were mental images of the royal pleasure gardens of the 17. Century carpet was...

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Chelsea Physic Garden - London's Oldest Outdoor Classroom

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London's oldest outdoor classroom. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. There is a yearly check Rosie Atkins, curator of London’s Chelsea Physic Garden. Never fails to write and get in the mail on time. The check is for 5 pounds. So it has been, without a payment missed, since 1722. In 1722, after nearly fifty years in existence, the garden, established by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. The 5 pound rent check (equivalent to US $10), written by...

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Koke-Dera - Kyoto's Garden Muffled in Moss

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Kyoto's Garden Muffled in Moss. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. Moss gone amuck was not intended to be the garden’s definitive element when Muso Soseki, a 14th century Zen priest and famed garden designer, created the gardens surrounding Saiho-ji temple. That would come centuries later, muffling a design rare and original for its time a garden intended to be enjoyed for its idealized earthly beauty, not as a religious exercise. Moss, always included in a Ja...

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Alcatraz - 100 years of gardening on "The Rock"

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The Rock has Bloomed for Over 100 Years. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. Defeather and trim, Carola Ashford instructs a volunteer gardener. Trimming makes sense to me, for that is what one does when readying iris for the blooming season ahead. Defeathering, however, has me scratching my head. Seagulls, Carola Ashford explains. The world offers no more of an unforgiving place to garden than this hunk of stone glowering through the Golden Gate. No soil, n...

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Garden celebrates botanic, ethnic diversity. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. I’d come to the city of Oaxaca, southern Mexico’s cultural treasure, for a two-week immersion in Spanish. While doing so, I wandered around the old city in my off-school hours jumping at every opportunity to practice my emerging language skills. As I walked cobbled streets, I kept running into the name of Francisco Toledo, Oaxaca’s reigning contemporary artist. A sculpture, created by Toledo out of a massive piece of...

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Alnwick Castle's Poison Garden- British Garden is a Head Twirler

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Alnwick Castle's Poison Garden. British Garden is a Head Twirler. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. England - Visitors are encouraged to touch, smell, and even nibble a berry or two as they stroll through Alnwick Castle. S walled 12 acres of shrubs, trees and flowers until they reach the Poison Garden. Here some of the world’s most venomous and hallucinogenic plants are grown, some so virulent or hallucinogenic that they are incarcerated in caged beds. After ...

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Bell's Nursery - Anchorage's "Winter Camp" for fuchsias

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Anchorage's "Winter Camp" for fuchsias. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. ANCHORAGE, Alaska - It’s not easy to have a green thumb when you live in Alaska. The garden just gets going and whammo it’s winter, with its near 24-hour nights. There’s no gentle spring to gradually warm the soil, no lingering days of Indian summer to coax one last bloom out of the bush. Frosts have been known to frizzle the fuchsias on the first of August. Tree fuchsias live forever, ...

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Tanto - Allotment Garden. Stockholm's Green-Thumbers Dig In. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. Stockholm, SWEDEN - Had I stepped into a storybook? Cute-as-a-button little cottages painted in shades of red, yellow, white and green nestled behind white picket. Fences and clipped hedges, each surrounded by an array of flowers, abundant beds of vegetables, and fruit trees summer-heavy with fruit. Stockholm’s first gardens were laid out in 1895, with the Stockholm...

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Kibbutz Ein-Gedi Botanical Garden

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Botanical garden thrives on the edge of the Dead Sea. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. EIN-GEDI, Israel - Ten years ago, this guy this tall, Zabu Levin indicates a level close to his knees. Kapooh! All minerals, everything here, Zabu says of the garden. Add water. Whoosh! Water, however, despite the springs, is a scarce and precious commodity. Blistering sun scorches the desert eight months of the year. Rainfall, at the most, is but three inches....In the 19...

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Boquete - Panama's colorful flowering oases

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Panama's colorful, flowering oases. Yvonne Horn at: www.YvonneHorn.com. Return to Home Page. Photos by Yvonne Horn. BOQUETE Chiriqui, Panama It has always bewildered me, the fascination people have with the Panama Canal. The water goes up, the ship goes through, the water goes down. Because. Seem hopelessly connected, a trip to Panama. Remained on my Z list until I heard of Boquete. In the cool highlands of Chiriqui. Province, an hour’s flight from Panama City, Boquete. Panama leaped to my A list. Mainte...