Nowhere is as beautiful as Tukums!” poet and publicist Imants Ziedonis once wrote to his teacher, Gundega Reine, in Tukums. On his 77th birthday, together with his friends from the Viegli Foundation, he planted the first cherry trees on Mālkalns Hill. His friends and the people of Tukums continued the initiative, planting more and more cherry trees over the years. Today, Mālkalns Hill is gradually becoming ZIEDONIS’ GARDEN – a place where stories of Imants Ziedonis as a former secondary school…
Nowhere is as beautiful as Tukums!” poet and publicist Imants Ziedonis once wrote to his teacher, Gundega Reine, in Tukums. On his 77th birthday, together with his friends from the Viegli Foundation, he planted the first cherry trees on Mālkalns Hill. His friends and the people of Tukums continued the initiative, planting more and more cherry trees over the years. Today, Mālkalns Hill is gradually becoming ZIEDONIS’ GARDEN – a place where stories of Imants Ziedonis as a former secondary school student intertwine with those of Ziedonis the gardener. The garden invites visitors to discover how a garden grows, to experience the beauty of Tukums and Latvia, and, in the spirit of Ziedonis, to blossom themselves, because “a person’s greatest…
