GOOD GARDEN READS 1

Something new for my blog.....a link to a really interesting and enjoyable gardening article.  I am low tech so hopefully this actually works.  It may even be the start of something new.  Aloha


https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/garden/110958186/meet-the-gardener-living-her-selfsufficient-dream-in-central-new-plymouth

SLEEPING GIANT GARDEN, FIJI

Some decades ago I heard about Sleeping Giant Garden at Nadi, Fiji with its wonderful orchid collection.  It was also famous because it was owned by the actor Raymond Burr ( of Perry Mason and Ironside fame) who had a home nearby.  A few months ago I was staying in Nadi for a few days and asked around to find out if the garden still existed and was delighted to find out that it did.  Raymond Burr has been dead for awhile now but the garden is run by a non-profit group.  The garden is several miles out of town below a mountain range that gives the name of the garden.  Next to the drive way in there is a large orchid farm nursery that looks like it is not used much now but the actual garden area is delightful and really worth seeing if you are in the area.  Here are a few photos from my visit there.

Aloha