temporals

Ten years ago our pojata (cottage) stood like a naked beauty on the grassland of Grabov Rat. We started planting trees and bushes, vines and ground covers like crazy and, as our plants mature, pojata is increasingly embedded into green. Many people are impressed with the variety and number of our plants but recently, I have second thoughts of our planting policy. First of all, we’ve underestimated the harsh environment of Grabov Rat, the poor soil and wind bora in particular, and the result is that the gardening is more fight then pleasure. The second reason, it hit me suddenly previous summer for the first time, is that Grabov Rat as a biosphere has changed substantially in the last decade.

First I’ve noticed sheep are not grazing, I don’t here their bells, I don’t see them. Then I looked harder around: Grabov Rat, and Grabovi Doci uphill of it, are not a grassland any more. Two plants are advancing from higher grounds downwards toward the sea: Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) and Spanish broom (Spartium junceum). Our pojata becoming naturally embedded in green - and yellow: on the photo you can hardly see the wire fence in front of Spanish broom, behind our red rose. And look uphill [ROLLOVER].

 2012-05-27 

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