Two years ago I pushed our old, barely moving gate and stepped in to the utterly ugly, abandoned garden in disgust. 'Okay' I told myself 'clean this mess girl, throw out all the trash, ALL the trash and make some space for the dogs'. As our front gate ain't the newest one, and the dogs always found a hole to sneak outside the yard, I decided to make them a place to run and chill in the shadow under not-so-bad-looking tree my grandma planted once in a purpose I'm not gonna tell.
Basically, that's how it started.
The battle wasn't easy. Hell no. Nettles. Everywhere. Covering seventy five percent of what back then couldn't be called a garden. Another twenty percent were bricks (under the nettles). When I thought I was done, ground spitted a new portion of bricks, and my very old fake christmas tree, and wooden boards, and weird stuff I was sure will kill me, as they looked like souvenirs from WWII, and then again, more bricks. I swear I still digg them out when I try to plant some new flowers.
After some days, with help of my brother who bravely put all the bricks in one place, and my mum, who cut away all the bush which wasn't nettles, we could finally say, that the garden is now clean. 'So, what will we plant?' mum asked, looking at the poor sight we had, but which already looked great in comparision with the days before. 'The hell should I know?' I frawned, as I always do when someone asks me about things I have no idea about. 'Some flowers, I bet'. But I knew like literally no names of flowers at all. This is grass, those are trees, that much I could differ back then.
Relying on my mum, who first bought a willow tree, which supposed to be super cute, but turned out to be a failure, I got interested in gardening, planting, flowering, oh-ahing and admiring mother nature. More to say, I'm crazy about japanese gardens that inspire me in every way possible to create my own little path of japan behind the same old, ugly gate which I really have to change. Really.
Below, as I started photographing my plants in March this year, I will be posting them more often and won't make such long posts to each and every picture, since it would take me forever, and I don't have this much (daaaahaaaamn!)
Below, some of my babies :)
