There is no better way to describe my life around the cottage than with the japanese aesthetics wabi-sabi:
Nothing is perfect.
Nothing is finished.
Nothing will ever last.
This is how I look at life, my house and mostly my garden … the dreams flying high, but usually a change of ideas somewhere down the road.
Changes that come with age, mine and the one of my cottage, changes due to the cycle of mother nature, changes due to limited time and knowledge, changes due to the supply chain.
I read in an essay that the apparent problem with Austrian gardens was that we won’t make wholehearted decisions and in general tend to wiggle our way through life, avoiding to make clear statements.
My garden most definitely falls in that category; a bit of this, a bit of that.
But to me my garden is only a big playground, no rules to follow other than one’s own likes and dislikes – and most of all nature. It is a trial-and-error approach, and I always stumble over something I want to try out. Many little projects within one big project.
So, let’s start digging … and mostly let ‘s play!