The Elizabeth Gamble Garden, is one of the historical gardens of the city of Palo Alto.

This property has become a non-profit community horticultural foundation. The garden is full of freshness throughout the year with its demonstration gardens which are also used as part of an educational program with local community.
The 2.5-acre estate features an Edwardian house and also includes a carriage house, teahouse, tool house, greenhouse, and a gazebo.
The garden is open to the public at no charge during daylight hours.

Read more:
http://www.gamblegarden.org/
http://www.destinationpaloalto.com/pages/d/gamble-garden-center?visitor_info_id=35

The presence of trees reduces stress in any human habitat and plays an important role in various aspects of human life:
•filter air, water and sunlight
•provide shelter to animals
•provide recreational area
•moderate local climate, slowing wind and storm-water, and
•shading homes and businesses and conserve energy

Preserving the forest trees is of great importance to life and health of our planet and all human societies.
Life in the urban condition has urged the need to plant more trees and create urban forests!
Planting urban trees is carried out in many different parts of the world. The type of tree planted may have great influence on the environmental outcomes.

To promote the growth of native ecosystems, planting fast growing indigenous trees is advocated by many environmentalists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_planting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_tree
http://www.cirrusimage.com/trees.htm

Birds ‘branch-boarding’ on Isère- Grenoble, France.

    The Miracle of Spring
    Recall how with frozen fingers December’s clouds outspread
    Over the fields and uplands a mantle of ice and snow;
    Over the buried roses, over a world of dead
    Vengeful as any hangman stalked the exultant crow.
    But lo, the abiding wonder! Spirit, that never dies,
    Surges anew and vital through the upstanding trees.
    See, those spear-armed horsemen, the spreading tulips, rise
    Over the plains triumphant, hills, yea, and mountains seize.
    Behold, the eager lily leaps to delight the eye,
    Spurning the bent narcissus crouched in his self-regard.
    Deep in the springing corn-shoots the gleaming violets lie;
    Bright with a myriad jewels the wheat-swept fields are starred.
    Under the nodding willow the poppy lies in blood-
    Sudden the blow that smote her, drenched her crimson flood.
    And now, mid the green profusion of wheat, in mingled hue
    Note how the lily argent with azure glows;
    So, when the sky is stippled with scattered rain-clouds through
    Here and here betwixt them the vault of heaven shows.

    BAHAR (1884 -1951)
    Verse Translation : A.J.Arberry (1905 -1969)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Taghi_Bahar
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Arberry

    Water
    Let's not muddy the brook;
    Perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance,
    Or perhaps in a farther thicket a goldfinch is washing her feathers,
    Or a pitcher is being filled in a village.

    Let's not muddy the brook;
    Perhaps this brook runs to a poplar's foot,
    to wash away the grief of a lonely heart.

    A dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook.

    A beautiful lady walked to the brink of the brook.
    Let's not muddy the brook.
    The lovely face has been doubled.

    What refreshing water!
    What a spring river!
    How friendly seem the folk at the upper village!
    May their springs always gush; may their cows always render milk!
    I have not seen their village,
    Surely God's footprints lie at the foot of their huts.
    There moonlight enlightens the expanse of words.
    Surely in the upper village hedges are low;
    There the folk know what sort of flower is anemone;
    Surely there the blue is blue.
    A bud is blossoming, the village inhabitants know.
    O what a fine village it must be!
    May its orchard-lanes be full of music!
    The folk upstream understand the water.
    They did not muddy the brook. We also
    must not muddy the brook.

    Sohrab Sepehri  (1928 - 1980)
    Translated from Persian by M. Alexandrian

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Sepehri

The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Founded in 1626, It was originally known as the Jardin du Roi, the garden was not planted by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician until 1635 as a medicinal herb garden.

In 1640 it opened to the public.

The Jardin des Plantes maintains a botanical school, which trains botanists, constructs demonstration gardens, and exchanges seeds to maintain biotic diversity.

About 4500 plants are arranged by family on a two acres (10,000 m²) plot. Six more acres are devoted to horticultural displays of decorative plants. An Alpine garden has 3000 species with world-wide representation.

The Rose Garden or La Rosraie, is created in 1990, and displays hundreds of species of roses and rose trees.

There are also specialized buildings, such as an impressing winter garden, and hothouses display regional plants, not native to France to be visited in this location.

The Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, the Mineralogy Museum, the Paleontology Museum and the Entomology Museum are an important part of the garden and attract many visitors throughout the year.

The Jardin des Plantes of Paris is It is situated in the 5ème arrondissement, Paris, on the left bank of the river Seine and covers ov er 50 acres (280,000 m²).


Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_des_Plantes
http://france-for-visitors.com/paris/paris-mosque-and-jardin-des-plantes.html