Every garden keeps three clocks.
Some plants here will be gone before a child planted beside them is grown. Some will keep that child company for life. And a few were planted for people not yet born.
Choose any tree. See its whole life.
Every species in the register, from the year it was planted to 2326: how fast it grows, when it first bears fruit, how long it lives, and how it carries on after.
The gardens are twelve years into a three-hundred-year life. Every garden that grows old has had more than one gardener. The next one inherits a forest at the beginning of its story.
How this was made. Each species is drawn from its height, growth rate and lifespan as published by tropical agroforestry and forestry sources: the Pacific Island agroforestry species profiles, the World Agroforestry tree database, the USDA Forest Service and university extension services. Where no source gives a lifespan, the figure is an estimate from the plant’s genus and habit, and the page says so. Real trees vary with soil, water and luck; this is an illustration, not a forecast.