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In A Persian Garden

© Mel. White

Moorish gardens of the Alhambra and Generalife palaces at Granada, where water dominates the environment and makes a haven for local birds.

Though not true "let-it-run-wild" wildscape gardens, Persian gardens were an important ecological resource for the birds and some of the plants of these lands. Although we most often think of wildscaped gardens as a regrowth of nature, there are cases when a fantasy design can do the job of providing water and food and habitat for local wildlife while providing an aesthetically pleasing haven for the humans who created it, too.

LINKS

http://www.compulink.co.uk/~swinton/nigh... - A nice little article about the night gardens of Persia and India

http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/rubai1... - A classic -- the Rubiyat

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~arch/181/pe... -- a page about Persian gardens, with diagrams (very useful if you think you might like to do one).

http://www.erols.com/zenithco/tajmahal.h... -- The Taj Mahal