Spring really sprung last weekend so Mister Chifff and I felt obliged to finally get some work done in our garden. Yup, that’s right. The happy Chifff couple owns a real garden now! And as they so rightfully say; gardens are not made by sitting in the shade…
We moved to our current home at the end of summer 2009. And we never felt the urge to do reorganise the big, and I’m the first to admit kind of neglected, garden. Well, we did have a great birthday party/ housewarming in the sunny garden. And some fun BBQ evenings. But that’s about it. We never before had the luxury of our own garden, when you live in the centre of Amsterdam that’s like seeing a fata morgana…
Last weekend we just gave it a go and headed to a real garden centre. Wow, I never could have guessed there’s so much to choose from when it comes to plants, floras and other garden decoration! Violets, daisies, roses, forget-me-nots (did you know there are more than ten different varieties of forget-me-not!), lavenders, conifers, syringas, cyclamens, chrysanths, primroses; a whole new botanical world was revealed!
I’m usually quite good at deciding what I like and dislike, but in this particular case I had to deal with flowering months, ground cover or flowering plants, shadow or sun species and I lost track pretty soon. I figured it out in a split second; this was certainly not my cup of tea. I told Mister Chifff he had carte blanche concerning this gardening thing, if he would like some advice on the colour scheme; he’d know where to find me…
With Mister Chifff doing his job in the soon to be perfectly designed and of course flourishing garden, I had some quality spring time of my own. I dragged my laptop outside, settled into the most comfy garden chair in the sun and wandered off into the nice web world of Anthropologie. I once got myself a real cute pair of ochre wedges in this lovely web shop, but I never knew they had so much fun, springy home stuff as well!
Just scroll down and see a few items I’d really like to add to our home, to make it feel like spring inside & outside! (too bad we still have to make a lot of savings…)
As an anthropologist, I must say: great fieldwork! thanks for the tip, Vits