Kokedera – Kyoto’s garden muffled in moss
admin2024-11-03T13:40:23-08:00A garden rare for it's time ... JAPAN Kyoto - Moss gone amuck was not intended to be the garden’s definitive element when Muso Soseki, [...]
Ein-gedi Botanical Garden – thrives on the edge of the Dead Sea
admin2022-04-05T16:08:11-07:00“Ten years ago, this guy this tall,” Zabu Levin indicates a level close to his knees. “Kapooh! Now this tall!” His hand shoots up as [...]
Master of the Nets Garden – a classical garden in Suzhou
admin2021-05-25T13:11:02-07:00CHINA Suhou - An amazed Marco Polo described 13th century Suzhou: “There are fully 6,000 stone bridges, such that one or two galleys could readily [...]
Istanbul’s leafy oasis – Gülhane Park
admin2020-03-25T11:09:51-07:00pond In autumn, leaves fluttering down from sky-high plane trees keep garden workers busy clearing ponds of their clutter. TURKEY Istanbul - I [...]
The Governor’s Residence garden
admin2020-04-05T11:04:30-07:00MYANAMAR Yangon - Bo-n-n-n-g! A sonorous brass gong announced my arrival. It certainly made me feel important, and I’d not even come for an [...]
Kandawgyi Gardens – Myanmar’s “hill station” botanical garden
admin2020-04-06T13:46:06-07:00MYANAMAR Pyinn Oo Lwin - Myanmar’s colonial, British-era town, Maymyo - named “May Town” after Colonel May then in charge of the Fifth Light Infantry [...]
Macau – a tale of two gardens
admin2020-04-10T12:37:42-07:00CHINA Macau - It was morning exercise for the two women. For me, it was Chinese ballet performed for an audience of one, the movements [...]
Persian Gardens – of myth and literature
admin2020-05-09T11:19:55-07:00IRAN - Ah, the gardens of Iran. Pictured in my mind’s eye were the celestial paradises of the Koran in which flowers bloom, fruit ripens, [...]