Middle Eastern Garden
A region of the dryland plot. Date palms tended in the Hejaz since pre-Islamic centuries, olive terraces dry-stoned along the Jordan Rift, za’atar gathered on a Galilean hill at first light, parsley and mint replanted by every Beirut courtyard, Persian cucumbers raised on a Bekaa trellis, pomegranates ripening in an Isfahan orchard, sumac trees marking the boundary of an Anatolian field, the Damascus rose harvested before the heat — a garden built on the terrace, the qanat, and the slow patience of the perennial under sun.