Business as usual

July 3, 2009
With no guests in house, it's all gardening. Rusty is mowing everyday to keep back the jungle. We were surprised when we went to the other two jungle lodges that they don't mow down the drive way and things just look a bit unkempt as you arrive. I guess it's a different take on things but we really like the place mowed. Things are wild enough here without having overgrown grass to look at everywhere.
Rusty has also been putting in his coffee plants. He wants to see if we can grow our own coffee. I put in an herb garden and finally yesterday it looks like they are popping up. The dogs had run through my bed so many times, I thought it was a goner. As it is, I think it will come up but be jumbled. The nice, neat rows are history.
I've been working on trimming everything. We have a beautiful garden with at least 6 types of ginger, orchids galore, fangi pani trees and tons of hibiscus. It's the hibiscus that's out of control now so I'm working my way around the hedges. Some of the citrus trees are almost ready to give too. We have pink grapefruit, lemons and limes. I'm not sure if we have any good oranges. I'm letting them go through a season so I can see what we have and then I'll get some navel oranges and mandarins for next year. Of course, we have several Jamaica lime trees full of fruit which I could care less about. Anyway, the gardening is fun and it's always a surprise to what what new things is coming up or bearing fruit.