Blog Week: City Garden

[franceslievens]

One of the best features of The House is its garden. Along with the fact it was conveniently located in the same street of the apartment we used to live in, the garden was what really made us decide to buy this house two years ago. For a city garden, ours is rather big. It has three different trees. It used to be more, but the previous owners cut two of them down and the apple tree died on them.
The trees provide much needed shade in our South-West oriented garden. On Sunny days it can get very warm, but in the shade of our laurel tree one can always relax.
I'm on break at the moment and had some very stressful weeks before it. The garden was always the place to be to charge the batteries: digging in the dirt in the vegetable patch, sowing, weeding. Cutting down the raspberry bush before it takes over the lawn. And of course, hunting down snails before they eat my precious seedlings.

Comments

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I love your little garden and wish it well! (And of course I'm jealous because I don't have the space (or sun) for more than a tiny apple crate mini garden.)

Digging in the dirt is a great way to relieve stress - even just a quick walk around the yard to see what the flowers and plants are doing calms me down after a long school day. I've got some planting to do in the holidays and am already looking forward to that.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I can't believe that garden is ours. It's so nice there! We aren't really secluded from the other gardens, but I don't mind. I love being out in the sun. When we're in the garden, we just share our fun with the neighbours.