Here are some photos of a huge 5 acre lot in Hawaii for sale complete with thousands of dollars of beautiful plants, a house, etc. all for what a 900 square foot dump in Los Angeles would cost... sigh.
my dream garden
another shot of the garden
Front of the house
ANother shot- oh well
hmmm
I love all the bird's nest ferns in the Ohia trees (came with the place).. all the rest of the plants were put in, only 5 years ago!! I hate how everything grows so much better and faster in Hawaii than in California. This garden would take 20-40 years here, and of course, most of the plants wouldn't even survive here.
yet another shot
Oh so beautiful. What island? (as if it matters LOL)
THis last shot (maybe) I'll bore you with is yet one more turn and twist along a windy, beautiful path. You can easily get lost in this garden. When I took these photos there were some 80 people visiting at the time... and yet most photos show no people. This home is located on the big island near Hilo.
OK here's another view or two... this one showing a row of huge Zamia furfuraceas and Ti plants
Here's a clearing with some Traveler's Trees
sigh......I do so love Hawaii
Thanks for the gorgeous pix palmBob
One last shot
It's beautiful! You should buy it and move there.
Sigh, that is simply wonderful.
I have an idea, you buy and I'll live there and send you pics. Deal?
Okay, that is a truely beautiful garden. But you have zone 9 right now! Poor us in zone 5! Just kidding:-) We went to Hawaii for our honeymoon. I was ready to stay but it cost too much to import my dogs!
But, Bob, it you buy it how do you keep out all those visistors that are running all over the place? And who mows all that grass? A herd of sheep?
BOB - you are a kindred spirit. Our part of the world is amazing! I live in Orchidland...between Pahoa and Keaau, at about 800'. We have a Banyan I thought was 50 years old...NOT...14 years old. It IS an ideal gardening world.
However...it is also an ideal weed world! We have 12 acres...6 we are planting now...and they NEVER EVER look as good as your photos. Hey...almost...but...trimming the edges are a bear! I am slowly learning the fine points of trimming weeds to look like they aren't weeds!!!
BTW...where is that garden?
Come visit us next time...and you can see how two healthy 64 year olds run/work all day at about 10mph to keep our paradise going! Ain't easy...but, hey...it is a heck of alot of fun and keeps us fit!
Every shot is a great one Bob,big drool here!
What is the palm to the left of the steps?
It's beautiful.
THis garden is in a small community called Lelani estates... I owned land there for a few years but lost it in a divorce... oh well. The palms beside the steps (on either side are Wodyetias (foxtail palms) with the ringed trunks, Bismarckias (the blue fan palms sort of hidden) and Cyrtostachys rendas Lipstick palms with the red crownshafts. This garden has over 1000 species of identifiable tropical plants, and nearly as many the owners don't know anymore. All done in just 5 years (was a thick forest of trees, ferns and undergrowth 6 years ago).
Thought I knew that Garden (THAT Garden gets a "G"). Visit it every year with the Palm Society....
It is totally awesome how fast plants grow here!!! Just bought 5 Bismarkia nobilis and can't wait to get them in the ground...to GROW!
Sorry you lost your land there, Bob. No worries...when the volcano goes, so might they, unfortunately...wrong side of the vents. But..it IS a roll of the dice!
Why is it being sold? If I had that I could never part with it.
well if you ask you can't afford it...
but just how much might that house with no garden just native plants ...go for
Gordon
Sylvia... the quarantine laws have changed for pets. No longer the expense and the time the animals have to spend locked up...
Gordon... last year we added 2, 3 acre undeveloped lots to our existing acres. Both were 24,000 (no road, no elec etc.). Today one 3 acre lot is asking 40-65,000 for the same condition. This side of this island enjoys spikes as one "boom" starts moving to nursing homes or back to "Mall-la Land" and another "boom" retires and 'discovers' the place. A three acre lot, un-landscaped, with a small houses sold for nearly $300,000 up here, recently. The market is nuts! People are paying OVER asking price and properties are being sold to the person who has the most cash in their pocket!
There IS still a fair amount of raw land...but it is going FAST. There is no one to build your house, fix your existing wiring, rip your road...they are all working and the wait can be LONG.
The DOWNside of this: the boomers who come from LA, NY, Seattle looking for Paradise don't realize that culturally (as in Symphonies, ballet, GREAT restaurants) there is little to choose from here - the culture is very local and low key and some folks just can't deal with all the rain we get (or can get) and they don't look into a microclimate here where the weather is different. So they leave to go back to Malls, traffic jams and bedlam. Another down cycle begins. "They" call it Island Fever...but the island has nothing to do with it. Hilo has a pop. of about 60,000, there are 2 "mainland kine restaurants", lots of fabulous small local things to do - The whole island has only about 100,000 people!!! and 2 active volcanos.
HOWEVER - those of us who come here to garden, grow just about anything, enjoy the birds song and not get messed with - we are having a wonderful time!!!
Oh my head!! $300,000? For THREE acres?? AND a house?? Oh man. You can't buy a bedroom shack on 0.10 acres for $300k in eastern Massachusetts. Really. The average house price here is around $400k. Condos are selling for $300k. It is truly a gardener's dilemma - if you want land to work with, you've got to settle for a very, very small house or go way out to the western part of the state.
(Why do I live here???)
Alohahoya2000, are you a native, or did you escape there from the mainland? You are truly blessed!
Pictures ans plants all are very beautiful. What is the cost of this house?
heh... south georgia, i picked up 15 acres of land, an acre pond, and 3acres of swamp, 7existing greenhouse (30by100's) an established business, and a house to live in for under 50k.
LOVE the tree ferns btw
drew
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