Keeping a Garden Alive in the Tropical Heat
posted on 14 June 2011 | posted in
Construction and Industrial
You may think, because of the stereotype of lush tropical vegetation that you see in travel brochures, that it's very easy to keep a garden alive and lush in a tropical country. Sadly, that isn't true at all, as we've learned over the years when trying to tend our garden. The tropical heat is often too much for the plants, especially in the summer, and they quickly start to droop and wilt. After a day or two of not watering them, we'll have a number of dead brown plants.
Not only that, but we get infested with very tough weeds on our pathways, only our honda pressure washer can remove these weeds and moss.
In terms of the constant need to water the plants, I remember the summer my grandfather died: for an entire week we were all extremely busy with arranging the funeral and the wake and everything, and when we finally got a moment to rest and think we suddenly realized that every single bush in the garden was dead and bare after not being watered for a week. However, the effort of keeping a garden alive is worth it in the end, for the sweet smell of orange jessamine flowers that fills the air and drifts into the house at night.
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