On our street there is a supposed garden, but it is really a weed patch. There are a few untended flowers in there, but it is anything but a cultivated garden. We tsk tsk as we pass by, but we don't make a formal complaint to the town. It's a small yard and not near our house after all.
But this is a garden seen on a walk — a wild sort of garden, but a garden nonetheless. Those are flowers, not weeds. Somebody oversees i this patch
A no mow I imagine. A little too wild for my tastes, though.
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteI love a garden that looks like it just happened -- but not the weeds!
ReplyDeletePlanting a wild-flower garden actually takes a bit of planning. I've shown a few shots of the one at our nearby lake on a steep slope...a good place to have nature take over in the summer.
ReplyDeleteNice greenery..
ReplyDeleteI really like this garden.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the insects and other wild life love it, and why not?
ReplyDeleteMy main flowerned has lots of weeds this year. I haven't taken my horseshoe hoe to it even once! I dont like the weeds, but this year, this is how it is.
ReplyDeleteI love it! It's wild and contained, such joy.
ReplyDeleteA little too wild for my taste, I'm afraid. I do like fields of wildflowers though, as long as there's lots of color.
ReplyDeleteIt's ok for someone else, but I wouldn't do it.
DeleteThe bees must love this place.
ReplyDeleteI would love that sort of garden - but if I attempt it it becomes over-run with weeds.
ReplyDeleteThe wild garden is beautiful! And great for the critters!
ReplyDeleteVery "bushy" sort of garden. Disinhibited growth
ReplyDeleteNice but uninviting. How does one get to the front door?
ReplyDeleteThere's a driveway.
DeleteA re-wilded yard. They are becoming quite popular. It's what I did to my last yard, which was a 10x20 patch of dirt.
ReplyDeleteI love that too, but in the town I live in, it would be a ticketable offense. There is a fellow who goes around town with a tape measure.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me that is hyperbole.
DeleteSadly, AC, I cannot. A lady 2 doors down had a jungle-y front garden by intention, her house being small an cottage like. It really was wonderful, filled with tall flowers like foxglove and lilies of many varieties, tangles of clematis winding their way upward. It really looked charming. She was fined on a daily basis as she tried to argue her point. She had everything ripped out and replaced with white stone. It was the first instance we'd seen this so rigorously enforced and we were shocked. Especially. Since this seemed to be an act of vengeance. She had complained about evicted tenants' property taken to the and left there for weeks, the tenants never returning for their things, and the landlord never arranging to remove the pile of furniture. The landlord in question was a city employee and poor Connie was targeted. We watched very closely after that. there is a man who drives about town in a city vehicle. He measures the grass with a tape measure and leaves a warning on the door. If the grass is not mowed, there are fines.
DeleteOMG! Our town is almost the opposite. If there is no complaint, nothing happens. Somehow though, the town is in a pretty good state.
DeleteIt's lovely how it just thrives, full of flowers that aren't trying to be neat. It really shows that beauty comes in all forms, not just the perfectly manicured ones.
ReplyDeleteI love a wild looking garden. Nature isn't neat!
ReplyDeleteLooks very much like the wild garden behind my garage
ReplyDeleteOur garden is not unlike that; we call it a chaos garden - but it is in the back yard, out of sight!
ReplyDeleteYes, I guess mine is a chaos garden too. There is actually a Facebook group called Chaos Gardening, which i was happy to join. Great fun seeing those gardens!
DeleteI love it! Wild but not uncared for.
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