recycling

Watch out when leaving your belingings unattended - they might get inhabited!

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summertime

The problem with blogging about gardening and plants for me is that during the gardening season, there is not much time to write, and when there is time to write, there is not much going on gardening-wise. Do you find this, too? Let me share with you some of the photos I shot over this season.

Summertime is the time of long evening walks with your head up in the air...

...time to admire other people's gardens and what grows in them...

...and lives in them...

...or to think of the potential their places hold, unfulfilled.

Last week I picked the first tomato that ripened on my window sill.

But... compare that to my mother's produce from her garden in the country!

One day, after a good night's rain, I was lucky enough to find this beautiful edible surprise 

growing right under my balcony.

I hope you are all enjoying your summer, or any other season it may happen to be right now 

where you live.

june on the cat balcony

We don't mind!

gardenless gardening inspiration

Recently, when reading a post about how balcony gardening gets contagious on the balcony gardening blog the 6×8 garden, I remembered some photos that I took in the past during my travels that have inspired me with how much can be done with just a little.

Barcelona, Spain:

Krakow, Poland:

Madeira, Portugal:

Since I became part of the community of fellow gardenless gardening bloggers, I have found inspiration also with the urban organic gardener, especially his former fire escape garden, he offers good practical tips.

In his own words, Anything’s possible!

I have also enjoyed exploring ideas about roof top gardening or parking strip gardening, and I fell in love with the subversive concept of guerilla gardening. If you have 2 spare minutes, do not miss this touching video about a very special guerilla gardener.

A piece of good news at the end, renovation on our house is finished, the weather is warm and sunny and our balcony fully inhabited again. Sadly, now my old camera is on strike, so photos next time…

rock garden ideas

Do you have a sunny spot with little space? Let yourself be inspired by these tiny rock gardens from a local Brno exhibition