This Wide Wonderous World: School Garden Tour

Andrea, my professor, gave me guided tour of the school garden. The owner's son, Senor Manuel, manages the school and cares for the garden. I must say, he is very talented, and I wish I could learn from him. In the USA, he would qualify as a master gardener and his garden could participate a local place for other gardener's to tour and learn from. Sometimes master gardens are highlighted in the local paper and open briefly for the public to enjoy. There is a full vegetable garden for the students to pick for food and some types of fruit trees on the property, including banana and granadilla (passion fruit). I hope you enjoy the garden through the pictures. This garden is one of my most favorite and fond places from my visit to Costa Rica and especially Coronado.

This is a vine growing down outside the window of the main entrance. It gives the feel of stepping through a curtain and being right outside. It's a brilliant way to "bring the outside in".

A type of citrus veggie Andrea shared with me. We put the seeds on salad. Yum! This has a slight flavor like lemon.

Andrea picked this flower for me to show me how to sip the sweet nectar from the base.

Like baby's breath. Beautiful!

A few varieties of kale.

Cabbage

Cauliflower

Celery

Cucumber (I think)

Beautiful purple tomatoes!

Ornamental berries

Lichen

The red petals might actually be leaves.

A tiny orchid!! I learned that the bundles of leaves (plants) growing on the sides of the trees in the rain forest, well, all the forests everywhere in Costa Rica, are orchid plants. I am looking forward to going to the Lankester Botanical Garden in a few weeks. It is a research garden of the University of Costa Rica and has more varieties of orchids than just about anywhere in the world, including some very rare orchids. Costa Rica may be known to have more varieties of orchids than anywhere in the world.