To The Nursery We Go...

We have been going to the nurseries in the city quite a bit recently. At the beginning, it was done out of necessity. Later on, we started to fell more enjoyment in doing it.

First of all, when we moved in, our so-called garden was really sad looking. We were at the point of engaging someone to re-do the whole area. But we saw some plants being healthy looking , we saw there was a little hope for some sort of revival. At the same time, we prefer to do things on our own and appreciate the result of our effort, instead of paying someone to do the job.

There's a chance that the person that we engage, could do whatever he/she likes, without taking much of our preference into consideration. We learned this just recently, we had a rather unpleasant experience with the interior designer and the builder. We naively thought this country was filled with tons of professional people, more than those in Indonesia, the previous place where we learned our experience when we built our first house.

We thought we gave it a try first. We tried to nourish the existing ones and tried to look for some to fill in the blanks. Therefore we began searching for bags and bags of soil, pots and plants and do the best we can with our really little knowledge about gardening. We looked for some simple plants that are easy to grow and learn from that before moving into more challenging ones.

These are some of the plants that we saw at the nursery that we went to last weekend. We'd love to have some of them, especially those with colors other than green, but we will wait. We'd like to see how things develop first.