A real pleasure on the eye.

Somebody might recognize this plant in our garden, as we cannot find it in our succulent book. But it is beautiful.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein.

All of the plants that you see in here, were planted when they were still very small.

I cannot bend down so well anymore, so my wife is the boss of the gardens :)
Only joking as the females would love this, but not joking about the bending down issue. We plan and get the succulents and the cactuses together, normally from the budget racks at the nurseries and when we see something rare, then we simply get it.
The front garden strips still have young plants, but they are going to eventually grow to full size and then it will be great to see.
Let me show you the progress thus far.

We had no idea what this would be, as when it was small, it looked like some wild lettuce kind of plant. There is another flower stem growing at the right-hand side of the plant.

So now it's sprouting two flower stems, and you can see how beautiful the bigger left hand stem flowers are.

Now let's have a look at the two garden strips of our front garden.

I had a spectator when I took the photos, and she must have been worried that I will remove her food stash.

This is the right-hand garden strip under our study window.

planted out with many kinds of aloes and succulents. We always try to keep our gardens similar to the surrounding nature in the area.

And here below, you can see the view that we have from the study window. Just behind the wooden border pole, you can also see the squirrel's food stash. Sundried granadillas and oak tree acorns.

This is the left-hand garden strip where we keep the big stuff, like the Christ Thorn aloe and the Jacob's Ladder bush.

There is a big secret in this section that I will show you in another post. It was really an amazing discovery.

So, they say that life should be as a garden. Plants growing side by side and all of them happily rising to greet the morning sun. Somebody else, had this to say about nature,* In order to see birds, it is necessary to become a part of the silence*.
I agree totally with this, as I live it every time when I go out into nature. Silent, patient, and meditative.
We rush through life in a hurry every day, searching for the things that will create our future survival. What we don't understand about this, is that the rushing around eventually affects our health. And without health we will have nothing.
Such is life.

I hope you have enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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