Hello, my name is John A. Davies, principal of John Arthur Davies SPC, a landscape consultancy rooted in horticulture and registered in the Kingdom of Bahrain since 1994. This is my first attempt at writing a blog and I was spurred to do so mainly by two factors – one being the opportunity offered by…
Some years ago I wrote my first blog. That was in 2015 and this is the first occasion I am writing on social media since then. One of the factors which prompted me to do so was a question posed by a lady who was attending a talk I was giving about the spirituality of…
As I said in my previous blog 2 this blog relates to promoting a book I have written. Its original title was Three Gardens and the Quest, the quest being my spiritual journey, the essence of which I interwove as a thread running through the narrative, friends though felt that two subjects would confuse the…
By: John A Davies Continuing my series of articles about the public gardens of the Kingdom of Bahrain and in this instance the BD2.9m refurbishment of the Water Garden at Alguful in Manama, I put the following questions to Director of Urban Development, Architect Ms. Raweya Al Mannaei of Municipalities and Urban Planning at the…
By: John Arthur Davies Beautification of Al Farooq Interchange, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain Some months ago, having occasion after a long absence to pass through the Al Farooq Interchange it was very pleasing to see landscape improvements taking place. Discussing the project with Engineer Shaikh Mohammed Al Khalifa, Undersecretary for Municipalities Affairs, I tabled questions…
Why Conocarpus (otherwise known as the damas tree) deserve a second chance By John A. Davies Over the last decade or so, Conocarpus has received much bad press throughout the Arabian Gulf. Both species are involved, these being C. lancifolius, native to coastal areas of south western Arabia and the horn of Africa, commonly known…
