Post #410785 by tikipaka on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 1:45 AM

Wow Fatuhiva, your little paradise is beautiful. Don't think ours will ever be that nice. We're up here in NY in the Hudson Valley and wintering plants is very difficult. The only thing even slightly tropical is the elephant ears and some grasses. :lol: But it is our little piece of paradise, sense we started with a forest of brush, weeds and a old foundation of a barn. We tried to save the flooring pieces of the barn, where the animals use to be but it was pretty broken up so we just bull dosed it. That's about where our little cabana / tiki bar sits right now.

This is a picture of the front of our home which is a 1850's farm house.

So the tropical look just doesn't make it around the entire place. But the cabana is where I love to escape to the tropic's. :D I can only dream that I can ever fill up our space like you did with yours.
A view from the front to the back.

Here is a shot from the spring of this year.




Put in a few more grasses this spring and the guy who does our lawn took out the one of the left and it now is smaller than the one of the far right.

This is the Mamosa tree we planted last year and just last week it split right down the middle from the winds. I tried to repair it but not sure if it's going to work? I was so hoping that it would ground quickly to shad the cabana. I might have to just cut it back and start all over. :( All the mature trees on the property are either broken up pretty bad from the weather, age and need to come down.

And here is a picture of our little snake in the grass. :lol:

We have planted a few new trees but I'll probably be long gone before they get to a nice size. :lol: But after looking at all these other tropical paradises it makes me want to go out and try or should I say buy something more exciting and pray that it will last.