| International Peace Garden Planned at Vallarta Botanical Gardens Bob Price - Vallarta Botanical Gardens | |
July 9, 2016 |
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Dear Friends of the Garden,
Peace. It should be one of our foremost quests as individuals (inner peace) and collectively as an interdependent global community (world peace). Any other goals that do not contribute towards peace are of questionable value. Even while true and lasting peace may at times seem unattainable, efforts towards it create the most rewarding journey possible and allow us to profoundly touch lives and help others.
Just as natural landscapes can restore the soul and create the perfect settings for reflection and goal setting, designed garden landscapes can provide this along with accessibility and infrastructure that cannot be found in the wild.
Two of our landscape architecture collaborators have created a design for a new International Peace Garden which we would like to install at the approach to the garden’s new chapel, Nuestra Señora del Jardín (Our Lady of the Garden).
It gives me great pleasure to unveil these plans to our community of garden supporters and invite your help to make this new project a reality! Please read on to learn more and get involved. In the meantime, please plan your next trip back to the Vallarta Botanical Garden to enjoy nature and set your purposes for peace.
The grounds of the Vallarta Botanical Garden are already a place of calm, solace, and healing of body, mind, and soul. The recently completed chapel, “Nuestra Señora del Jardín” (Our Lady of the Garden) has added a new element of spirituality to the garden experience.
A new design by Architects Nick DeLorenzo and Cesar Amezcua will complement the approach to the chapel with space of incredible beauty and purposeful function. It will feature plants of the Mediterranean and the Holy Land along with Mexican wildflowers. A combination of shade and sun provide an inviting usable space throughout the year for activities from educational programming and family enjoyment to quiet meditation. The tiered benches may allow the space to later be used as theater seating for open-air concerts and performances. It will be a welcoming place for people of all backgrounds to come together in harmony with nature and focus on our collective power to make this world a better place.
Please contact garden management today to become part of the development of the new International Peace Garden at the Vallarta Botanical Garden! You may reach the Garden’s Philanthropy and Special Events Manager, Hillary Abrams, at hillary@vbgardens.org.
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