Remember the orchid collectors who were kidnapped back in 2000 by Columbian guerillas? One of them, Tom Hart Dyke, is returning to the country where he was held hostage for 9 months.
Tom recalled the day his captors announced that he would be killed,
Tom spent his ‘final day’ designing a dream garden that contained plants he’d collected from across the globe.
His determination to garden against all odds drove his captors crazy:
It was perhaps Tom’s jungle antics that made his captors glad to see the back of him.
“Building gardens in the mountains was much to the annoyance of our kidnappers,” said Tom.
Now if this isn't gardening as an extreme sport, I don't know what is.
Read the article: Orchid hunter Tom Hart Dyke returns to Colombia 14 years after guerrillas kidnapped him in Darien Gap region
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