Our Garden

How the garden began

A garden grown on love, patience and whatever bloody money was left in our pockets.

Our garden started before we moved here—with plants in pots and buckets on the veranda of our old home.

Maria and I didn’t have the money to go out and buy a whole garden. Every week or fortnight, we’d scrape together whatever spare coins we had and buy a plant or two. Sometimes our birthday presents to each other were plants. They became part of the collection waiting to come with us.

When we moved, the plants came too. These photographs, taken around June or July 2025, show some of those early days of getting the trees into the ground.

There were another twenty to twenty-five plants in the mix as well. It was all built up gradually, whenever we could afford a little more.

There’s still plenty to do, but that’s how our garden began: a few spare coins, birthday presents, pots and buckets—and something we could grow together.

Photographs by our daughter, Gabi.

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