Five years and the hard work of an estimated 150 local artisans later, his pet project has bloomed into a blend of botanical wonderland and eco-minded retreat.
Where pluralism took root, American industry and wealth bloomed.
It was a world in which everyone was God-fearing and when everything from floods to comets was seen as the inscrutable (and unchallengeable) will of a jealous, stern deity.Yet it was from this unpromising soil that the modern, scientific world-view bloomed.
From the 1990s onwards the earnings of India's technology firms, which miraculously bloomed despite a rotten state, have repeatedly saved India from balance-of-payments crises.
An understanding of what graphene is capable of, and how to make lots of it, has bloomed in far less time.
THIS year the poppies bloomed early and more abundantly than ever.
Turing's mathematical genius first flowered at school, and then bloomed in the laid-back, brainy atmosphere of 1930s Cambridge.
A thousand essays have bloomed; Berlin and other cities will hold street parties; and on the same day an assembly of legislators and state representatives will elect the federal president (probably the incumbent, Horst Köhler).Given their history, most Germans consider the Federal Republic a success.
It bloomed into communal warfare, entailing alliances between neighbouring villages and revenge killing on a scale outdoing anything in Aeschylus's Orestia.
In the past five years, while the Internet has bloomed, the production of printing and writing paper in North America has grown by over 13%.
MANY of the large-scale political murals that bloomed across London in the late 1970s and early 1980s have been destroyed.
