Dearest Garden Lovers!
**This is a follow-up post to my first early-October update video here.**
A few of you who have been following my garden adventures, have inquired as to the overall layout of the space, and I have not found this easy to express online.... But yesterday I was helping the owner by climbing up onto a balcony and trying to unblock a locked door from the inside....
It wouldn't unblock, and I was stuck inside a good while.... So I popped over to the other side of the building, to get a view of the garden from above: it was a thrill!!
The immediate impression is of such green lushness, though it is not so clear unless you know the plants intimately, how it is laid out!
Either way, it is also wonderful to get a view of the whole space, including the wilder part below... And the wider, panoramic context:
When I first worked on the gardens, 13 years ago, it was mostly bare, dry and with not much soil. The old town was in the latter phases of abandonment, and it had been little maintained in a couple of decades. The gardens were extremely, deeply overgrown all around us - and this man was one of the first to invest a lot of time and energy in restructuring house and garden, having taken advantage of the low property value at that time.
I'll try and get a before and after post together, if I ever find the photos from late 2009 and early 2010, when I started working on the bare bones of the garden: such a joy to think back, and to appreciate my own hard work in bringing this garden to the beautiful, fruit-full state it's currently in!
Tante belle cose a tutti!
Clare.
PS AAAARGH: I am so annoyed, Ecency App changed the post to sharing just on my blog, instead of HiveGarden like I'd set it to earlier. Now I can't change it and all this fiddley wirk tapping away on a tiny screen might not be seen by the community. Boo for technology making choices which we didn't make!