Flowers, gardens and the plants of the Holy Land

One Jerusalem is a small journal about flowers: what grows wild in the hills around the city, which plants appear in ancient texts, and how to grow a garden that copes with long dry summers.

Latest articles

• The wildflowers of the Judean Hills: what blooms from winter to spring
  From cyclamen in the rocks to red anemones and poppies in the fields: a month-by-month look at what flowers in the hills around Jerusalem.
• Flowers of the Bible: what scholars say the lily, rose and hyssop really were
  The plants named in ancient texts are not always the ones we picture today. Here is what botanists and historians say.
• How to plant a Mediterranean flower garden that thrives in dry summers
  Plants, soil and watering habits that keep a garden in colour from spring to autumn without constant irrigation.
• How to keep cut flowers fresh in a hot climate
  Simple steps for the first hours after cutting or buying, and the varieties that last longest in the heat.