OUTDOOR SPACE: The property has an herb garden, rose bushes, lemon and other fruit trees.
The restaurant features the Garden Room, an area at the rear of the property, where an olive bush, herbs, and lemon and orange trees grow - produce from these are used as ingredients the menu.
Black tea, occasionally flavored with vanilla, and herbal teas particularly lemongrass and lemon bush (ravin'oliva )—are popular.
Lemon bushes like their soil acidic, she said.
While I was snooping around in the pantry (stocked with bulk-bought grains in plain glass jars) and her freezer (stacks of frozen, unwrapped baguettes) and her echo-y clothes closet (one pair of jeans), I saw two small lemon trees -- bushes, really -- in pots on her balcony, their branches heavy with hundreds of lemons in various stages of lemon development.
In the last poem, "Long Life", the poet, recovering from serious illness, contemplates "finches in the grass, and a stubby bush / which this year mothered a lemon".
"Chipper loves your neighborhood," my mom says, gazing at my lemon trees and rose bushes.
The 285-acre farm was lush with pecan, eucalyptus, lemon and lime trees, pomegranate bushes and palo verde, a graceful tree with distinctive green bark.
Growing beneath the farm's fruit trees are fruit bushes, but also what Benham calls "smelly herbs": mints, lemon balm, tansy.
In Australia, boutique distilleries are booming too, with their creators turning to native botanicals, including lemon myrtle, finger lime, wattle seed and even bush tomato.
He offers up a home-brewed cordial, lemon with river mint, along with roasted macadamia nuts with bush tomatoes and crushed wattleseeds.
