The Last Garden On Maui

I never did get around to showing you the last garden I designed and installed before leaving the islands for the mountain tops of North Carolina. It deserved special attention and the time never seemed to present itself.

Here is variegated shell ginger with red ti, asparagus fern and the trunk of a dracaena.



My visit in March 2010 was three months shy of three years since I last saw this garden. Three years amounts to a mature garden on Maui. Much had grown big. A few things had been changed because the original plants did not survive or had proved to be more work than desired.



This cliff like hillside was the last section planted after construction was completed after a very long litigious delay. Flame vine and asparagus fern are used as groundcovers. On the right the blue flowered shrub plumbago covers a large chunk of the hill.

On the left an offspring of my beloved Buttercup Tree grows tall and strong.



The pool area was the first part of the garden planted. One main idea was to have plants that don't shed leaves into the pool. The bromeliads had done so well, the entire bed was recently completely dug up, thinned and replanted. Hundreds upon hundreds of bromeliads were given or thrown away. Stuff grows fast on Maui.



You don't need flowers to have year round color in the tropics.



On the other side of the house an alcove between wings is used to create a cool green jungle scene that is seen from inside the glass walled hallways.



The Agave attenuata had just recently bloomed. I was told the flower spikes framed the entry stairs to the front door perfectly during the holiday season. Sadly the main plant dies after blooming, but they produce many keikis and a healthy clump can re-bloom in no time.



The Ponytail Palm, Beaucarnea recurvata had lost its main trunk, but had re-sprouted profusely. This could make for a much more interesting multi-trunked specimen in time.



That's pretty dramatic. What can you plant in a 18 inch diameter hole between garage doors. I think I made a wise choice.



I refused to allow a grass block driveway on this slope. We compromised and left grass ovals. Even those were a pain on such a steep driveway. It's all cement now.



Aloha Maui. It was time to move on. My time there was over. Thank you for all the blessings over many wonderful years.



My first garden for a client in North Carolina is being born.