To those who have read my poetry sull'Iris of Gilboa (as it is called by botanists), I want to add my comment.
The Biblical Mount Gilboa is a mountain dry and brittle. In the Bible it is said that the news of the death of David Shaul and Yonathan, beloved son of Shaul at the foot of Gilboa, launched on the mountain this terrible curse:
O mountains of Gilboa, no more you sweat or dew or rain fields New, because here was depressed the shield of the heroes, the shield of Shaul (Samuel II, 1, 21)
Since then the mountain is a desert, nothing grows, except in spring, a flower called the Gilboa Iris, a flower only grows in this area where the desert and the Mediterranean flora kiss. We Israelis, respectful of the word of David, we've never planted anything.
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