Majorelle Garden

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Still more cacti

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Turtles in the lily pond
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More plants on way to the garden
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Looking to my left from our balcony
Jacques Majorelle, son of celebrated furniture maker Louis Majorelle, was born in Nancy, France in 1886.  It was in 1919 that he first came to Marrakech to continue his career as a painter.  He acquired land in 1924 and began the landscape which is known today as the Majorelle Gardens.  In 1947 he opened the garden to the public, a tradition that continues to this day.  Following a car accident in 1962, Jacques Majorelle returned to France and shortly thereafter passed away.

The Majorelle Garden is one of the 20th century's most mysterious gardens.  It is a place of rare individual expression and mystical force.  The garden is an overpowering abundance of vegetal shapes and forms representing five continents and reflects Jacques Majorelle's significance as one of the most important plant collectors of his time.