Inventing a garden
Exploring how to design a garden & discover plants
Welcome to my site. Discover with me how fascinating gardens can be, how you design a garden, how to cultivate flowers, plants and vegetables, how to deal with pests and diseases, and how to manage a greenhouse.
Some 10 years ago, thanks to Monty Don and Gardeners' World (https://www.gardenersworld.com), which I discovered by accident, I became fascinated by gardens, garden design, plants and flowers. Wherever I travel, I always first try to visit the local botanical garden, and I explore gardens as well as local nature, to discover amazing flowers and plants. Many of these we also find in a cultivated variety in our gardens. This is what this part of my website is all about.
Looking for a rose?
Rose in Basaleti (Georgia)
A simple rose, that is all you need in the garden. Cultivating climbing roses, growing old-style Bourbon roses or using roses as a hedge. That is what we will explore. In addition, we will focus from time to time on wild roses, their colors and how and where they grow best.
Design me a garden
Garden design in Chisinau (Moldova)Garden design is not simple. Of course you can do it by intuition, and sometimes with success. A better option however if to study how to design a garden, to learn it from scratch and starting from concepts and ideas to develop your garden step by step.
Work in the garden
Flowering quince (Cydonia oblonga)Maintaining your garden is a fascinating hobby, certainly when you are dealing with sandy, acid soil, like I do. On this page, I wil regularly comment and advise on cultivating vegetables, the greenhouse, how to fight weeds and diseases.