{"id":2716,"date":"2013-01-28T06:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troutsfarm.com\/latest\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2013-02-04T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:31:57","slug":"2013-january-osda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/2013-january-osda\/","title":{"rendered":"Osda House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The perfect Guest House for welcoming Amy to Africa, Osda House in Accra offered us a spacious suite surrounded by beautiful plants with plenty of heartfelt hospitality.
\nJanuary 11 through 14, 2013<\/h4>\n

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AND AMY MAKES THREE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Camille, Bob and Amy in front of Osda House \u00a0the morning\u00a0after her big flight across the Atlantic. The anticipation of Amy’s arrival was nearly unbearable. As Camille posted in a blog entry titled Amy<\/a>: “Soon enough, Amy\u2019s smile appeared, bright and travel weary, like sunshine bursting through a cloudy sky. And then we were three. Three Armantrouts in Ghana, here to taste the flavor of Bob\u2019s childhood in Accra, to get a feel for the elements that helped shape who he is. With this first smile, my dream had become real.” Read more here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A GREEN THUMB<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The owners of Osda House, Yaa Dorothy and Seth, have green thumbs. This is the main entrance where guests are greeted by a large, flowering “Crown of Thorns” and happy hedge of Croton.<\/span><\/p>\n

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GOOD COMPOST MAKES GOOD GARDENS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The three of us were touring the beautiful gardens when we noticed Dorothy heading behind the house with a pan of fruit peelings. Camille had a pan of banana, mango and pineapple peelings in the refrigerator and asked if we could add it in. “Of course!”\u00a0Dorothy\u00a0said. And this is what happened – we threw the compost into the hole, Dorothy covered it with leaves and Camille sprinkled a little water on it. Composting done correctly is just this easy!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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EYE CANDY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The gardens are lush, inviting and at times, invigorating. Yellow Cannas and Red Hibiscus are two eye-popping\u00a0tropicals\u00a0that make your heart race.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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MANGO SEASON<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mangos are just coming back in season as you can see by the heavy fruit hanging on the tree behind Osda House. Both Bob and Amy are happy to provide a sense of scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CROTON<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"\"\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Camille loves the look of Croton and Osda House is surrounded with spectacular specimens. Behind Camille is a nice\u00a0Cordyline or what we called Ti plants in Hawaii.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[Latest]<\/a>\u00a0* [Troutsfarm]<\/a>\u00a0* [Casa Kumasi]<\/a> * [Osda House]<\/a> * [The Big Pineapple]<\/a> * [Memory Lane, Tema]<\/a> * [FS2BD January 2013]<\/a> \u00a0* [Walking Through the Rice Fields]<\/a> * [Shopping at Nadville]<\/a><\/h4>\n

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The perfect Guest House for welcoming Amy to Africa, Osda House in Accra offered us a spacious suite surrounded by beautiful plants with plenty of heartfelt hospitality. January 11 through 14, 2013 <\/p>\n

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AND AMY MAKES THREE<\/p>\n

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Camille, Bob and Amy in front of Osda House the morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}