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LANDSCAPING

A Country Haven

May 30, 2009

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GATE TO CONNIE’S HAVEN
 
It’s hard to believe that only twelve miles away is a hideaway this lush and fertile! On twenty acres of volcanic land that has decomposed, my friend Connie has created a delicious and peaceful botanical garden.
My friend, Velvet and I were invited to come and take pictures. Once [...]

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Various Projects on the “Farm”

April 18, 2009

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ORIGINAL LOCATION OF SIDE PATH
 
Relocating rocks can be either hard labor, or you can look at it as good exercise! I choose to think of it as a way to get in my weight lifting. This weekend, I put on my heavy duty garden gloves and started creating a spot in [...]

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A Week of Surprises

February 21, 2009

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PATIO THIS NEW YEAR’S DAY
 
The Hawai`ian Spring comes sooner than in most parts of the country. Still, I am always a little surprised when something actually starts to grow and bloom. This past week I’ve been weeding, planting, while ignoring a few of my older starts. What a surprise when [...]

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Yard Sculpture

February 15, 2009

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STONE TABLE
 
Last week, I showed some of the flowering plants and landscaping of Bob Elhard’s plot of land. I love to show local gardeners and their work because it gives me so much hope!
The photo above is a stone table in the entry patio he has created out of a lava [...]

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Shangri-La Hawai`i Style

February 8, 2009

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PARADISE POND
What a delight to find this garden in the middle of a lava field! Anything I could say about this Hawaiian Shangri-La would be superfluous. In fact, there was so much to see here that I will divide Bob Elhard’s work of art into two posts. Today I will concentrate [...]

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McDaniel Farmette

February 1, 2009

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FARM SCENE
I love to visit Other People’s Gardens for several reasons. Primarily, it is to get ideas for my own gardening efforts, to see what is possible on lava. Here are some of the ideas I found on the McDaniel acreage.
A path over the lava where we need to walk is [...]

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Tidying Up!

January 16, 2009

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UNFINISHED CORNER

Most of the homes here are built on what I call “stilts.” I’ve heard several reasons for this. One is that it allows the water to flow through without damaging the foundation, or for the wind to blow through. Some say that it gives you a place to hang laundry [...]

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Down the Garden Path

January 13, 2009

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NEW GARDEN PATH

One of my Christmas gifts was a gift card for Ace Hardware. I decided to start working on the area that I look at from my kitchen window. I already have several red smoky bushes (that’s my name for them), several banana trees and several coffee trees.
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An Art Filled Thanksgiving

January 4, 2009

Most mornings, I take time to read a few pages from motivational books. Just this morning the topic was making every day a day of Thanksgiving – not about only the big spectacular events that happen to us in life, but the fact that I had a bed to sleep in last night, that there [...]

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E Komo Mai – Welcome!

July 17, 2008

Kaimana, my wonderful friend, loves the outdoors. He’s gotten out by accident only a few times, but he always found his way back home. His paws were always scraped raw when he returned, not being accustomed to the harshness of the lava. Now he mostly sits to watch the world go by and fantasize about [...]

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