This is the photography of the exquisite Ave del paraíso in the tropical garden at Calli Intra Muros in Ajijic. It is difficult to imagine the scale. This is an enormous plant. Over six feet tall, two meters. And, twice as wide. When you visit the Lake Chapala area, visit Calli Intra Muros in Ajijic.
Ave del paraíso
Bird of Paradise
The exotic star of the garden of my childhood home in San Diego was an enormous Bird of Paradise plant. Ave del Paraíso en español.
I loved to arrange those beautiful birds in one of my mother’s beautiful vases, pronounced with a flat midwestern “a.” She loved fancy things but did want to be fancy.
Arranging Bird of Paradise is a collaboration with the flower. Like many tropical plants have their own minds. You must follow their lead.
In México the “Birds” are so exotic. Juan Galindo owns the most beautiful gallery Calli Intra Muros in Ajijic, the resort town on Lake Chapala about an hour or so from Guadalajara. It is located in an old Spanish Colonial home with a glorious tropical garden filled with exotic plants and sculptures. This “Ave del Paraíso” is so unusual. It inspired a fantasy based on the plant.
Ave del Paraíso is so much more romantic than Bird of Paradise.
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