some dreams come true

Creating a garden is a great joy and a lot of work especially in difficult terrain but I am always thrilled to see how people of the world get into the earth and grow vegetables, flowers, fruit and nut trees and generally beautiful enviroments. I live on a volcanic mountain (extinct) about ten minutes from the sea by car. Since arriving in this country as a small child I have known this place, My first memory is of the gigantic trees and the banana and tropical fruit orchards that covered most of the flat land. There were some steep basalt dropoffs with large banyan figs and I imagined this was the ruins of a great civilisation, Mostly large old pythons lived there and wonderful birds, like Wompoos and Fruit Doves fed on the figs. The roads were red and very muddy when it rained, The population was small and the school was two rooms,