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To a certain extent, Escazu IS a garden. Only in the modern San Rafael seccion would one feel himself to be in a purely city environment. The rest of the Escazu area is quite rural in aspect. Here we will start out with some front yards, street-side plantings and pretty garden walls. Most Ticos do like plants and, although their garden arrangement is haphazard at best, the effects are often colorful. They generally will plant whatever plant that falls into their hands in the center of the largest space available. This hardly leads to a formal garden but can be quaint and beautiful. So here you can enjoy the restfulness of Escazu's very informal home gardens and the wildly varied plants that inhabit them!

Garden Plants
Heliconias or lobster claw plant	Bouganvilla in a tree	Queen of the night	A liitle sweet chile on a chile bush	A prolific blackberry bush
Epiphytes on a living fence post	Planting of ti plants	Backyard banana plant	Maidenhair ferns on stone wall	Monstera deliciosa