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I've been given a project to improve the chapel garden at the hospital. The hospital grounds have previously had a good irrigation system, but Israel has had 5 years of drought over the last 6 years. The level of Galilee has dropped to a dangerous level and the cost of water has gone up. So with my limited gardening experience I have been taking cutting and seedlings from all the plants that survive the waterless summers: rosemary, lavender, palm trees, olive trees, cactus and many more unknown plants - my plant knowledge is poor. More than 50% are surviving. I planted them in the spring and I was told that if you get them through their first summer then they should survive, so hopefully they will grow. Now is the time for the olive harvest, we have one tree, but our neighbour has a few more and she is more skilled in picking the olives. P
Monday, 18 October 2010
Drought Plants
I've been given a project to improve the chapel garden at the hospital. The hospital grounds have previously had a good irrigation system, but Israel has had 5 years of drought over the last 6 years. The level of Galilee has dropped to a dangerous level and the cost of water has gone up. So with my limited gardening experience I have been taking cutting and seedlings from all the plants that survive the waterless summers: rosemary, lavender, palm trees, olive trees, cactus and many more unknown plants - my plant knowledge is poor. More than 50% are surviving. I planted them in the spring and I was told that if you get them through their first summer then they should survive, so hopefully they will grow. Now is the time for the olive harvest, we have one tree, but our neighbour has a few more and she is more skilled in picking the olives. P
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I am very pleased to read your blog having seen the news in the CMS magazine. Please contact me as I am interested in the Galilee Bible College. May God bless you. Ian Benson (Associate Director, International Missionary Training Network of the WEA Missions Commission): e-mail ibenson at theIMTN.org.
Thanks!
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