
Life begins in the garden
Zanganeh Garden
Life begins in the garden with seeds springing to life. The fruits of the garden feed our bodies and nourish our souls. We created this Zanganeh Garden website to share our learnings about living a healthy, happy, productive life. We hope you enjoy your visit here and come away with your life made a little better and brighter with a few new ideas and inspirations.
The garden is a source of food and nourishment for our bodies. Spending time in a garden we find peace, beauty, inspiration, and a connection to nature. Time in the garden is food for our mind and our soul.
On this website we write about the sights, sounds and smells of the garden. We include stories, insights and observations along with practical gardening tips and advice. We share our gardening experiences, what we try, what succeeds, the experiments that fall short of expectations, and inspiration for new things to try. Every day spent in the garden we come away with new knowledge and insights.
We hope everyone coming into our garden will leave with their life enriched with knowledge, beauty, inspiration and peace.
Zanganeh Garden Tour
Here is a quick tour around our website to give you an idea of what is here and where to find it.
Background
Our ABOUT pages have background information about the name Zanganeh, about Bob and Mahnoosh, and general information on our garden (geography, geology, climate, plants, birds and other visitors).
Experiments
Part of life is trying new things, finding what works, what does not, adapting, then trying again. We will be posting in our Blog about these experiments. Check our Blog posts and search for the category “experiments”.
Tips
We like to share gardening tips and information we have learned from our experience and research. We’ll share our ideas for preparing the soil, starting seeds, dealing with pests, the varieties of plants we have most success with, and much more. Put “tips” in the search box to find these Blog posts.
Updates
We post regular updates on what we are planting, what is growing and what we are harvesting. You can find photos, audio and video for a virtual tour. Check our Blog posts, or enter “update” in the search box.
Music
On our Music page we have some selections of music we’ve created in a variety of styles. We can’t compete with the musical skills of the birds singing our our garden, but we do enjoy making our own music and hope our songs bring a smile to a few faces. Select the MUSIC page from the menu at the top.
Blogs
Select our BLOG page from the menu at the top to get the latest list of articles we have written. The most recent will be at the top. You can also browse through to find articles that may be of interest to you. Of course you can also use the search box at the top to find articles related to specific topics, say “squirrel” or “poppy” or “pests”.

