Category: ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN
Oaxaca's Ethnobotanical Garden, a Dominican Orchard Reborn
Behind the former convent of Santo Domingo lies a garden that was once an orchard. The Dominican friars used it as an orchid house and a kitchen garden, and the ground still shows traces of that daily life: the remains of ovens, irrigation canals, ponds and a cobbled avenue. Today the same space gathers plants… Read more