Ali’s mountainside garden in Iran

Let ’s travel to the other side of the globe today ! Today ’s photos are from Ali Mollanazar in theMazandaran Province of Iran .

Ali says,“My God - given - gift , the little , yet beautiful ‘ alpine rock garden ’ is situate next to Marzamin- meaning Mamland- ( مار زمین ) in Pardameh - ye Amiri- mean Breezy District ( پردمه امیری ) of Vana fringe of Larijan county ( Haraz road to Amol ) , the hilly realm just intimately and happily overlooking the Damavand Top , the uniquely fascinating utmost height of the Alborz mountain range rise circa 5,670 meters high from ocean horizontal surface , 75 kilometre far from the Caspian Sea .

“ It hold sizable limestone , boulders , guts , flake , and pebbles . And being on the mountainside , it has naturally provided all essential materials , facilities , and feasibilities for create a reasonable ‘ alpine rock-and-roll garden ’ with true particular features like steep stream and body of water - break rocky outcrops .

“ It love an alpine climate ; 1,700 beat high from sea storey , prevalently cool weather condition in summers , 10 ° degree Celsius during nights – I do n’t defy to sleep outdoors on the terrace , though some local old human beings do really enjoy that cool air . Icy cold in winters , minus 30 ° C during nights , just a small rainfall in bounce and falls , yet spate of heavy snows in wintertime . If you are stalwart enough , you’re able to stay and possibly watch some avalanche rushing towards you in cold season . Oh , my God ! Do not mill around in its pathway to take pictures ! You ’d well elude off the way and preserve your lifespan !

“ The surface arena of my secret garden is about 2,000 sq . meters , which is big enough for me to allow for my internal child to leap up and down and play juicy games until mammy ( pardon me ! Now , wife ) call ; ‘ It is getting too later for the dinner , stop that playing ! ’

“ Some of the main structure , decoration , and enhancements of this enclosed hidden garden let in a milky white colouration duplex apartment Francisco Villa , just in the middle of the garden with an area about 220 sq . meters , which may somehow form the blatant focal point of the garden , especially with those two patio , gravid & small , one on each deck . Just suppose sit on your rocking - chair , go to and fro , smoking the arresting Captain Black antiquity tobacco in your Swedish handy dark brown pipe , now and again sipping at your Brazilian traditional red-hot cappuccino in a china cupful , watching the blaze rising from the peak point aloft the abeyant volcano mouth of Damavand Mount , breathing the naturally purified atomic number 8 of the clear gamey sky , hungrily awaiting the Persian national flavorer lunch of Chelo - kebab . Bon appetite ! A captivating superior Paradise !

“ In increase to the above , plants in my garden overwork the generous sustenance for irrigation from a shallow H2O well , yet with abundant percipient inhuman H2O during whole outflow and summer , and partly in fall . The well proved to be very shallow indeed , because though having in idea to poke in about 15 meters , fortuitously at the deepness of 6~7 meters it crossed a natural natural spring culvert through which rain and snow piss is flowing downtrend into the Haraz River . the right way then and there , we make up one’s mind to halt digging any further .

“ This garden is forever changing and alter from all walk or better to say it is always subtly develop . I can not reckon when it will become complete and finished . It looks like a motley style garden , shady & sun - happy . I love it and feel it is suitable to spend part of my intemperately - earned immediate payment on developing it ever more . I aim at keep back it as a rude rather than a botanic , or like Kew garden .

“ Although I myself have been very fond of flowers plants , fruit tree , planting , cloning , graft , propagating , irrigating , landscaping , … and everything else tie in to gardening since childhood , I describe this as ‘ our ’ family garden because my dear , tidy , fighting , hospitable married woman ( Mrs. H.V. ) has pushed me forwards vigorously from the very start peak ; procuring the required landed estate , building the family , in addition to all the planting . Without her I would not have dared to guarantee such overwhelming hardships aloft the mass of no - easy - access . She is the think - tank which approves my ideas , and I must recognise my heartfelt gratitude to her here and now !

“ Simply , pictures prove to be more communicative and expressive than row . Yet , I exert that images suffer from some fateful deficiencies- being free of mortal . No one will ignore or neglect the realism that notwithstanding how picturesque an image may be , it can not depict any hints or traces of conditions or temperature ; how cool or warm it is , what smell or bouquet it carries , is it staring and clear , humid , or dry ? It lacks the index to relay birds singing , bees bombilate … Gardens , with all the plants associated with them in the wider landscape , are survive animate being . That is , they are born , they rise , mature , and then weariness broadly overcomes them , senility sets in and in bend there comes net full stop , or rather the virtual infinity . Instantly , new young metal money , full of fresh vigor and energy , transport on the responsibilities of life cps …

“ You and I , reader , are still happily alive ! It is our share of the God - given gift , the life sentence bicycle , and so it is our right to enjoy ourselves , making the most of our meter ! That is the grounds I still have lots of clear ideas and vivid design in mind to do tomorrow . There are precious objective to be get and completed . I am never in short of program for the future … and I have determine also that I will somehow extend to a via media with this so - visit ‘ Parkinsons ’ , to forbid it from taking clasp of my biography at any rate . Let it make me rock ! That ’s its nature , its gift to me – it can do no more to me ! Eventually , I will be the success , in following my delightful share of this great life bicycle !

- - - - Al has a web site where you could read much more about the garden and see much more photos . assure it outHERE ! * * * * *

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