Resurrection Garden – A Native Israeli Garden
If only it were requested, that in a museum that reveals the warm Jewish hearts of thesoldiers, a garden representing their longing for Israel. A garden that symbolizes the redemption's beginning of Am Israel in his home land.
This is the foundation of the garden in front of you - a garden based only on the flora of Israel. A garden where the feelings, the sights, the smells and the colors penetrate the heart and say - welcome back home.
While nature in winter and spring looks vivid and saturated with color, the long and dry summer paints the landscape in a slightly monotonous picture... boring?
But please don't be mistaken - be brave and drop the air conditioner remote from your hands for a moment –
go outside, stand and observe.
quietly.
For those who brave among you, a fascinating feast for the eyes and the heart is awaited –
the bright spring colors, which could not withstand the heat and dryness, became faded and pastel. Wonderful color combinations fill the picture now – Gold 'n' Brown', Silvery Gray, and a multitude of subtle shades of green.
This is the hour of the observers.
Those whom the spring does not dazzle. Does not lying.
Those who enjoy the delicate subtleties hidden in creation.
Israel's finest hour is the Summer.
Here lies the main goal of the Garden - studying and understanding the summer sights. The vast landscape pieces colored with Gold.
The mesmerizing contrast created between vivid and dry, between living and dead, between each color and the gold that surrounds it.
This is the main purpose of the garden - giving a platform and illuminate the beauty of the plants when they are dry. The dry sculptural structure of the plants, the special seed pods and the glowing golden hue.
The secondary purpose of the garden, is of course, to introduce the public to many wild plants, which should be adopted into private and public gardening. These are robust drought tolerant plants that knows the land well and adapted to the hot climate.
The design of the garden is based on a gradation of colors ranging from blue to red, on the multitude of shades of purple in between. As we get closer to the blue side, the violet tends to be cold while on the red side, the violet will be warm. Other colors wandering in the garden are gray, gold, white and yellow, whose neutral nature fits well into the color pattern and emphasizes the blues and purples.
The garden is divided into two parts - its western side is built of three "rooms" bounded by walls made of salt bushes. Each room represents a different blooming color - in the first room flowers in dark and warm purple, in the second room flowers in light and cold purple and in the third room blue flowers. The eastern side of the garden was planted according to the same color scheme, but there are no walls to separate the colors, so over the years they blend harmoniously and happily.
The scents of tranquility, rising from the fields of Ayalon Valley that stretches beneath us, can be smelled from afar. Wheat and barley, oats and barley. A thousand colors and grains, moving with every light breeze and filling the air with golden particles.
Admittedly, there are many wild plants that have been well taken up in Israel's gardening, but these are drops in the ocean. And even when they suddenly appear in a public or private garden, surrounded by plants from foreign countries, there is always a slightly foreign feeling. Something is missing from the picture. To see the wild plants in gardening, without the passepartout of the golden grasses that surround them in nature, creates coldness and alienation. There is sometimes a feeling of forcing the wild plants in the cultural garden (and maybe just to say some ecological / spiritual statement). In order to get an Israelite nature look, all the elements in the picture must be considered. And in the picture, there are always grasses. An Israeli Garden cannot live without them.
And indeed, this is the color pallet of our country's face,
When it's green mask dries, her face will shine on us.
And precious light will envelop every grain - in nature and in our gardens.
Look at the radiance rising in the air and carrying blessings to our eyes.
For me, in those summer photos, shown in the gallery before you, the heart of the whole story is hidden.
This is the golden age of nature in the Land of Israel.
Have a lovely stroll.
Landscaping and construction by Roee Kantor,
"The Eye Reserve".
