Orman Garden

This guide to Orman Garden in Cairo follows two French gardeners a generation apart: Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps, hired by Khedive Ismail to shape grounds worthy of his new Giza palace, and Gustave Delchevalerie, the Khedive's own chief gardener who inherited an unfinished plan after Barillet-Deschamps fell ill. You'll hear how a plot once kept purely to stock the palace kitchen turned into something else entirely, and what happened to the ninety-eight acres they were given to work with. The lotus pond and rose garden mentioned along the way are worth pausing at as you listen.