I sure would be happy if I were in that photo

A couple of years ago, our new garden looked awful, but my husband and I were happy, everything was in the future

Sviatlana, May we see your garden as it is now?

to NGA @sviatlana! Yes, we'd love to see photos of what you've done with the place.

Thank you for your interest in our garden. Sorry for my poor English. 4 years ago we bought a piece of land 110m × 70m near a small river. The land has not been cultivated for more than 15 years. Only 4 apple trees, a group of birch trees and 2 small oak trees grew on the site. 2 years ago we moved to a new home. My husband and I do everything ourselves (except building a house). We planted about 200 trees, took out several cars of garbage, removed one of the sheds in the photo, reconstructed the other, and propagated the plants ourselves. But the most difficult thing is weed control, it's not real yet to mulch, a very large garden. But we are happy to wait for the new day to continue our work.

It's all so beautiful. I love the design and colors of the first photo.

Thank you, we are trying as much as possible to leave the old buildings. Next up are 3 more sheds and a cellar.

You are doing a great job and it shows, it looks beautiful!!
Thank you for letting us see the result of your efforts.

Are you happy in your garden?

Oh Yes!! I love my gardens and it makes me happy when I see the results of my work.
It also makes me happy when I spend time planing all the things I want to do in the garden.
It also makes me feel good to know that I am cooperating with God and Nature.

Josephine, I looked at the photos of your garden in your profile. Beautiful garden, very interesting plants, especially for me (HZ 5a). Opuntia is a houseplant in our country. It is very prickly

Thank you Sviatlana, I love Texas native plants and work very hard to spread the word about conservation.
I am sure there are many native plants to your area of the world too.
Are you into conservation?

Part of our garden is wild nature and we are not going to change anything there. My husband and I trying to protect wild trees from cuting down and beavers, living in our river, from hunters. Unfortunately in our area there are almost no wild meadows due to the development of agriculture.

It sounds to me like you are doing the right thing, keep up the good work!

Thank you. Good luck