Garden of Rohuna

The Garden of Consolation is densely planted; across some twenty terraces supported by walls built from stones found on-site, a multitude of drought-tolerant plants from Central America, the Americas, and South Africa grow alongside various species of aloe, agave, and euphorbia. Yet the garden’s secret heart beats beyond the strawberry-tree bridge that spans a goat path, leading to the Moroccan Garden. Here, the view of the ocean is breathtaking. A strict rule applies here: only native plants may be grown.

Between October and April, the finest Moroccan bulbous plants bloom here—species rescued through herculean effort from construction sites for roads, railways, hotels, marinas, and real estate developments. Wandering through this Eden—the subject of the book *Eden Revisited*, published by Rizzoli—visitors enjoy a unique experience: strolling once more through the paradise from which we were cast out, a place that perhaps was simply Earth before our arrival.