- published: 29 Apr 2014
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Buskett, in Siġġiewi, Malta is one of the few woodland area in Malta and is overlooked by Verdala Palace.
The Buskett Gardens are located in the fertile valley of Wied Il- Luq, Siġġiewi. They are located to the south of Rabat and just east of Dingli. The gardens are at their best in the spring but they offer shade from the harsh mid-summer sun and offer a quiet place for a walk in the winter months. Verdala Palace, an official residence of the President of Malta, is located on the edge of the Gardens.
Many different trees and shrubs grow in the gardens but there are also many fruit-bearing trees there as well. This is one of the greenest areas in Malta. Indigenous forests once covered Malta, but trees were cut down for shipbuilding in the era when galleons plied the Mediterranean waters and for agricultural purposes. Perhaps the Buskett Gardens offer a glimpse of what Malta looked like in those days.
The gardens are very popular with Maltese people. People often visit the gardens to go for walks in the peaceful settings of the garden and to enjoy a picnic in the shade of the trees, or to work in woodland area. The gardens are also the site of the popular feast of Imnarja (the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul) which is celebrated on June 29. Hundreds of people flock to the gardens the night before the 29th to eat the traditional Maltese dish of Rabbit Stew cooked in wine and to listen to traditional folk music and singing and then in the morning there is the annual agricultural show.
Closer to you I found love I didn't know
Closer to you it took time so I could grow
You say each life is a reason to be with
Someone who keeps asking
Never loved at all
Closer to you takes another way to feel
Closer to you playing apart becomes unreal
Cause you know loving, oh the loving
Closer to your loving
I have to be near
Closer to you every emptyness is gone
Closer to you there's a place where I belong
You say each other made to be a lover
No ones every meant for any one to hold
Closer to you every moment has a start
Closer to you I have learned to be apart
Cause you know loving, oh the loving
Closer to your loving