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Educated in Brussels, London and Midwest America, Edward Flaherty interned for two years at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to earn his horticulture bonafides.

His undergraduate and graduate degrees have been in Landscape Architecture and Geographic Information Science.

An international award winner and frequently invited conference speaker, Edward Flaherty practiced landscape architecture over the past 5 decades on very large projects where he has lived as an expatriate in Africa, Europe and Asia. In Morocco, he has made his home in both Meknes and Tangier.
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My landscape stories are challenging, not focussed on neo-romantic beauty and wonder…why not beauty and wonde
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Plants, gardens, landscape adventures. Take a ride.Observation--inspiration--look inside.
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Edward Flaherty Edward Flaherty said: " I'm on page 10 of 216 of Zainab: This is a story about the fallaheen, the country folk of Egypt. Even the first chapter alone gives the reader a picture of the relationship between the fallaheen and the landscape. Haikal's vocabulary, translated by J ...more "

 

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Edward Flaherty made a comment in the group Weird FictionLate October 2025 The Willows topic
" This has my attention because Blackwood has inspired me to write about humans and landscape. Giving The Willows its due now. "
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Edward Flaherty made a comment in the group THE Group for Authors!Yenbo Palms topic
" Did David Lean's landscape in Lawrence of Arabia inspire you like it did me?
I went there. I lived there. I worked there.
And now I've published a lands
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" Reviews? Like a glass of water--I'm always thirsty.
[image]Inspired by the landscape?
I write landscape stories. Hijaz landscape on the Red Sea in Saudi
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YENBO PALMS—running from hurt…
Is that even possible?
CJ, a young American professional from New Mexico, had just lost his whole family, wife and
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" Literary Fiction--love of nature--a quest.
Switzerland, Spain. Morocco--music threads--multicultural/multiracial. Recent contemporary.

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“Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities.”
Edward Flaherty

“Landscape: what is seen? What is felt?”
Edward Flaherty, Tangier Gardens

“Once you go plant, you never go back.”
Edward Flaherty, The 23 Club

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“Once you go plant, you never go back.”
Edward Flaherty, The 23 Club

“Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities.”
Edward Flaherty

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Landscape: what is seen? What is felt?”
Edward Flaherty, Tangier Gardens

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