Winter Flora of Dubai

This time of the year, Dubai is particularly beautiful. The typical roundabout or median has a green base, with rows of spectacularly blooming fauna (which by a system of judicious transplantation are kept in perpetual flower).

Near my flat, there was a roundabout. At the centre, there were a few date palms, around the date palms were flowers, and around the floral display was grass, greener than I’ve seen in places more amenable to flora.

This roundabout was first stripped of its trees, flowers, and grass. Then it was expanded to four times its former size. Now it is an unsightly traffic hazard, consisting of nothing but sand and debris.

But, we are promised, in just 1,000 days, it will be a subway station.