The origins of these gardens date back to the reign of Al-Mutamid famous monarch of the Taifa kingdom of Seville, and its name comes from the gap that stood there, "al-buhayra" where one would place a series of more leisure gardens forward and under the leadership of Abu Yacoub Yusuf would be extended to thousands of olive trees, vineyards, orchards and palm trees. In the following centuries this area would heyday to a state of total ruin and will not be replanted until the XVI century.
After a second period of decline emerges at the end of the nineteenth century which destroyed the last remnants of Muslim palace and the building will be built inside existing regionalist. As was the case with the gardens of the Prado de San Sebastian, urban harassment during the past century was pressing, until the decision of local authorities to recover its historical use to proposing an unusual design in the area of the city. The gardens were finally opened in 1999, undertaking further enhancement works of Islamic remnants remaining.
Notwithstanding the original plot, with the need to open the avenue that bears his name to convey two major thoroughfares of the city, Eduardo and Ramon y Cajal data, was divided in two, forcing the separation of the gardens in two different areas between which passes the newly opened street.
The gardens are well arranged in two areas. On the one hand we find the Garden Palace: responding to an order that combines the organic with the geometric. The intent of this area of the gardens is to recover the inherent historical place. For this and from the entrance are an axis, beginning in a small square with a fountain, leads through an avenue flanked by two large rectangular ponds and date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) - opposed as it makes the garden del Prado St. Sebastian, horizontal and vertical toward the building still retained .. The area also recovered, restored the original Islamic pool at the edge of the Buhaira Avenue. On both sides of the main shaft is where the trail becomes more organic, as if it were a garden.
Stated thus, this area of the garden, continues with the practice began Expo 1992: the inclusion of olive tree (Olea europaea) as an ornamental tree, but here recalls the lost rural character of the garden. Thus, the olive grove is one of the key elements of the gardens serving element of continuity between the two areas. Other trees whose use is fundamental to the understanding of the gardens is the orange (Citrus aurantium), widely available in the city, and here is also used as a solution of continuity between the two areas. Other species of interest in this first area is the fig (Ficus carica), lemons, myrtle, cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) and a very large tree in the city, the jacaranda.
We turn now to the second area of the gardens, known as the Garden of history. Here is abandoned all organic conception and design is undertaken from a more geometric optics, establishing the garden through a series of rectangular beds along an axis that spans the entire length. At either side of this axis we encounter small ponds and pergolas, ready to exercise some control over the area bioclimatic garden. In this part of the garden facing the solutions of continuity with the other area, finding a continuation of the olive grove and, in majority, almost full boxes of oranges.
Escorting the olive groves and orange trees are locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) and bougainvillea (Bougainvillea spp.). Moreover, the beds are flooded with aromatic plants from which we have marjoram (Origanum majorana), the lavender, thyme (Thymus vulgaris), sage or mint (Mentha xpiperita).
Thanks to these species and other annual flowering as pinks or California poppies, garden areas bordering the avenue acquired some spectacular colors, transformer the garden in an authentic prairie high color value.