How does your garden grow?
The house came with a beautifully landscaped garden. There are plants on the entryway and on both sides of the front door, in the lanai and in the main garden. We’re keeping most of the plants that came with the house but we’ll have to move some to accommodate the herbs that we pulled out of the garden of the old house. Click on the thumbnails for a partial tour of the gardens. Partial because the main garden and the lanai haven’t really been cleaned. There are still wet concrete, paint cans and scaffoldings and a whole lot of other things. Renovation is still ongoing.
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- Plants on one side of the front door
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- Champagne palm tree
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- Herbs in pots and troughs
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- Basil
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- Vietnamese cilantro
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- Oregano
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- Replanting the kaffir lime tree
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- Replanting the lemon tree
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I am green as your garden with envy Connie! I am limited to mostly pots with my herbs. My Kaffir Lime tree died a month ago. I have 2 small ones now. Your garden really looks great! I also like that lemon tree of yours! Is that Lemongrass behind the Kaffir?
hi miss connie, if you will not mind, may i ask where is your dream house at, i am scouting my dream house too, and i wanted it to be in antipolo as well, you may email your answer if you prefer not to broadcast it to the public, thanks! btw, im an avid follower of your blogs.
My wife would love to have those herbs around our house in Antipolo. But who’s gonna plant them?…better not let her see these pictures.
peterb, no, that’s some ornamental plant. We accidentally left the lemongrass behind. Had it potted and all then it got left behind. But we’ll get lemongrass again. So easy to grow and propagate.
JMonreal, hmmm… don’t you have a katiwala there right now?
We have somebody adding an open patio at present – to take advantage of the wonderful breeze in Antipolo. Landscaping will come when we get home. I’m sure we will have a lemon grass, plus another herb, and flowering plants. Then my wife will find somebody to take care of the house while we are away.
The wonderful breeze is a roaring wind right now. And the storm is far, far away in Batanas and heading towards Taiwan. I hope my herbs survive.
bing: if you are in the Philippines, spend a day or two driving around Antipolo, or get a real estate agent who knows the area well. If you are overseas, have a relative do it for you. Don’t wait for too long, Antipolo is the place to be – to live, raise a family, retire …property values are going up fast. Goodluck!
Connie, have you cooked that Vietnamese cilantro already? We have a lot but have yet to cook them. There’s stir fry dish served in a Vietnamese resto here in Los Baños that I am pretty sure uses that herb. But I haven’t had the chance to imitate it.