Have you heard of the phrase " gardening by mouth"? I heard this phrase just recently from one of our guests at the beach house. He told me that a good friend of his loves to garden by mouth. I was curious what it meant. He later informed me that his lady friend had a personal gardener. So all she does is tell the gardener what to do in the garden. In my case, even though I have two full time gardeners in Marinduque, I am still strong enough to do "actual gardening" as one of my "exercise activity", besides walking along the beach in early morning or late afternoons. I still love to do a little weeding, watering, transplanting , pruning and fertilizing. The major job of mowing, pruning, weeding and spraying is done by mouth.
The above photos ( orchids, hibiscus, bougainvilla, bird of paradise, euphorbia, heleconias) are the fruits of my actual and mouth gardening. I hope you enjoy the flowers. If you also garden by mouth please let me know!
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Hi David, I found this site and great post as you selected--I've added it to my favorites. What a beautiful, almost blue orchid! A vanda I think? I myself am guilty of gardening by mouth. In the states I do all gardening by myself, but in Cebu I'm much more "arte" and find so many willing helpers that I mostly do a lot of the directing of physical work to others. I love to frequent the local nurseries in my area, and they're constantly delivering something new over to my house. I have to be careful, my husband says that I could go broke with all my finds! My garden is not on the large scale as your resort of course, but full of many pretty plants and trees. It's nice to talk gardening with kindred spirits!
On an unrelated note, my good
friend was a US Peace Corps volunteer in Marinduque around 1980 She still talks about how beautiful your place is. Her name at that time was Carol Khulman, a tall pretty blond. Do you remember her?
No I'm wrong, it was Montgomery! Just thought you might remember her or know of her at that time.
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