The pond under the gigantic grevilleas is now full of colourful and tropical water lilies, lotus flowers, equisetum and water hyacinths, in perfect harmony with the precious plants such as cardamom and heliconia that surround it.


An old lava stone drinking trough has become a noisy fountain with waterfalls on three sides, and the ruined old Arabian-style irrigation channels once used to irrigate the citrus grove on the site now run down the walls and run along the terraces to culminate in a little waterfall above a white Comiso stone pond.  >>