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The front water garden welcomes visitors and dignitaries to the Embassy with a spectacular diplay of fountains and small waterfalls all enhanced during the day by the sunlight and during the night outs by underwater lighting. | The front water garden welcomes visitors and dignitaries to the Embassy with a spectacular diplay of fountains and small waterfalls all enhanced during the day by the sunlight and during the night outs by underwater lighting. | ||
== Back Garden == | == Back Garden == |
Revision as of 22:03, 6 February 2008
Front Water Garden
The front water garden welcomes visitors and dignitaries to the Embassy with a spectacular diplay of fountains and small waterfalls all enhanced during the day by the sunlight and during the night outs by underwater lighting.
Back Garden
At the back of the Embassy is an enchanting garden made from original tree plantings, coupled with a mix of exotics imported from Earth, like tulip trees, swamp cypresses and gingkos, positioned by the landscaper's artistic imagination.
The paths are lined with manicured box wood hedges, with sprinkles of rosemary, and lavender, hollyhocks, lavenders and buddlejas. In the shade carpets of wild cyclamen spread to flower in spring and autumn. Each medieval stretch of wall provide a sheltered microclimate for rare tender plants - caesalpinians with golden flowers, scented trachelospermums, climbing hydrangeas, schizophragmas and roses alternating with straggling ivy and clematis.
Rose Garden
The Embassy Rose Garden is an impressive collection of all types of roses - hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, climbers, miniatures and shrub roses from all over the Universe. The Gallica, the centerpiece rose, is one of the oldest and most highly evolved of all roses ever bred.
Climbers, in an extrodinary array of colors (from snowy white to deep crimson), extend the garden to the Embassy terraces with the use of trellises. Some bloom only once, while others bloom continuously. Some have large, hybrid tea type blooms, while others bloom in small clusters.
Visitors and staff are attracted to the Rose garden not only for its beauty, but by the fragrance as well.