Before, During and After
Here are three pictures - before, during and after. Unfortunately, even the 'after' picture will need to become a 'before' picture. Why? The work has just started, and a lot work needs to go in, still.
SO, BEFORE:
DURING:
and AFTER:
These pictures have been taken from the newer part of the ground. Well, from the part that we acquired after the main house's grounds, and is the part that we have much slower started to take care of. Actually, 'take care of' is not the correct term here. We have been taken care of the ground and this is the reason of the 'Before' picture. The heeps of green you see are branches, cuttings, and other garden trash accumulated as the older fruit trees were pruned and wild bushes cut. That and the fast growing Morning Glories and other plants covering the garden trash under a blanket of green and blue and orange. Here, too, the undesirable plants grow faster than the rest... But it has been a blessing, in a way; the solid green did look nicer than the black-gray bare ground.
So what comes next? Next week the little bits of branches will be raked up so the ground can be turned and smoothed. It has a lot of natural manure - that actually smells quite strong, too. Then the wisteria that had survived under the wreckage will be lifted and guided up on supports that we will weld on to the wall. And the grass will be kept trimmed.
It only took 3 hours of the city hall's HPEM department to gather all the trash, 5 cubic meters of tightly packed garden trash, the remains of 2 years of gardening. As the men hauled the branches away, we 'found' a lot of things: the old gates of the property, the old garage doors, a huge pile of heavy rocks that once where the press of olive oil, probably for the olives of the ground... Actually, none of this was found, as in after being lost. I guess we knew these things were there but as they were no longer in site, they had been forgotten about.
The cord-looking things around the gate and the rocks are wisteria.
I will give an update on how this part of the ground will advance. For sure, the advancements will not be as visible as fast as this morning's work, but it will advance; slowly but surely!
SO, BEFORE:
DURING:
and AFTER:
These pictures have been taken from the newer part of the ground. Well, from the part that we acquired after the main house's grounds, and is the part that we have much slower started to take care of. Actually, 'take care of' is not the correct term here. We have been taken care of the ground and this is the reason of the 'Before' picture. The heeps of green you see are branches, cuttings, and other garden trash accumulated as the older fruit trees were pruned and wild bushes cut. That and the fast growing Morning Glories and other plants covering the garden trash under a blanket of green and blue and orange. Here, too, the undesirable plants grow faster than the rest... But it has been a blessing, in a way; the solid green did look nicer than the black-gray bare ground.So what comes next? Next week the little bits of branches will be raked up so the ground can be turned and smoothed. It has a lot of natural manure - that actually smells quite strong, too. Then the wisteria that had survived under the wreckage will be lifted and guided up on supports that we will weld on to the wall. And the grass will be kept trimmed.
It only took 3 hours of the city hall's HPEM department to gather all the trash, 5 cubic meters of tightly packed garden trash, the remains of 2 years of gardening. As the men hauled the branches away, we 'found' a lot of things: the old gates of the property, the old garage doors, a huge pile of heavy rocks that once where the press of olive oil, probably for the olives of the ground... Actually, none of this was found, as in after being lost. I guess we knew these things were there but as they were no longer in site, they had been forgotten about.
The cord-looking things around the gate and the rocks are wisteria.
I will give an update on how this part of the ground will advance. For sure, the advancements will not be as visible as fast as this morning's work, but it will advance; slowly but surely!
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