The Palm House is home to a choice of agricultural plants usually cultivated in humid tropical areas (bananas, pineapple, sugar cane, espresso). La Mortella is by far the best botanical garden I have ever been to. After I visited it was not awash with vacationers; it felt like a nicely-kept … Read the rest
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Botanical Gardens And The Urban Future — Dumbarton Oaks
Occupying 20 acres, the Gardens had been created in 1765 by Normal Robert Melville, governor of the British Caribbean islands, as a plant breeding centre and ‘to supply medicinal vegetation for the military and improve the life and economic system of the colony’. In a letter accompanying his draft survey, … Read the rest