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Happy New Year , everyone ! Enjoy one last day in Cynthia ’s garden in Rwanda .

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Walking back down the lawn, the planting beds on the left side of the steps. (June)

Winter jasmine hanging over the handrails, and orange bird of paradise and variegated ornamental ginger in front. (August)

Purple Verbena bonariensis, which I grew from seed. (July)

On the top left, a large white rosebush at the top of the retaining wall. A traveller’s palm at the end of the bed. (August)

At the top, on the left, a large cactus-like Euphorbia, with Heliconia rostrata or lobster claws to its right. The very tall lobster claws used to grow on either side of the center steps, obscuring the view of the hills, so they were some of the first plants that we moved. At the end of the planting bed are three climbing red roses. I don’t really have anywhere for them to climb, so I bent the stems over and pinned them down. (November)

Looking down the lower lawn from the south end, with the traveller’s palm on the right. (November)

Looking down the lawn from the south. The red blooming plant on the left is Justicia or shrimp plant. (June)

Looking across the lower lawn. (November)

On the left, the west-side planting bed along the lower lawn. When we arrived in 2011, there was only a clipped bourgainvillea hedge here and a very narrow bed with a few small trees and shrubs. We enlarged the bed, while still leaving enough grass to pitch large tents for entertaining. (November)

At the south end of the bed, an orchid pink azalea in the back; cannas and Kniphofia in front. (August)

In the foreground, pink Pentas laceolata. White Hymenocallis littoralis or beach spiderlilies are planted along the front of the bed. The large burgundy red succulent emerging from the hedge in the center is Euphorbia grantii (aka Synadenium grantii), possibly the rubra variety. It’s also called African milk bush and is native to East Africa. (November)