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From dream to reality - Making a forest to a blooming paradise?


Rhodogarden by Kristian Theqvist

2000 Year 2000. Virgin forest in a beautiful valley between rocks on an island in the Turku Archipelago could have been left untouched. However, these kinds of...
Year 2000. Virgin forest in a beautiful valley between rocks on an island in the Turku Archipelago could have been left untouched. However, these kinds of…
2001 Year 2001. I cut down trees, may be too many and afterwards I was a bit annoyed that I had unnecessarily cut down several Juniperus communis bushes. Lately I...
Year 2001. I cut down trees, may be too many and afterwards I was a bit annoyed that I had unnecessarily cut down several Juniperus communis bushes. Lately I…
2002_a Year 2002. The rhododendrons are flowering! What a joy! Even my wife started to believe that this could lead to something. Hmm, this was still far from a...
Year 2002. The rhododendrons are flowering! What a joy! Even my wife started to believe that this could lead to something. Hmm, this was still far from a…
2002_b Year 2002. In the autumn I built stairs up the cliff. Up there I could dream, squint my eyes and imagine how after few years the scenery would be filled with...
Year 2002. In the autumn I built stairs up the cliff. Up there I could dream, squint my eyes and imagine how after few years the scenery would be filled with…
2003_a Year 2003. I dug some small ponds in the garden and a stream. Over one of the ponds I built an arch bridge. The rhododendrons had grown well and it was...
Year 2003. I dug some small ponds in the garden and a stream. Over one of the ponds I built an arch bridge. The rhododendrons had grown well and it was…
2003_b Year 2003. I had planted azaleas along the wooden causeway on the side of the rock. They there small but I saw them already a lot larger in my daydreams.
Year 2003. I had planted azaleas along the wooden causeway on the side of the rock. They there small but I saw them already a lot larger in my daydreams.
2004_a Year 2004. The flowering of the rhododendrons was reasonably good. In front is the red 'Nova Zembla'. It has a reputation of being not hardy enough in Finland...
Year 2004. The flowering of the rhododendrons was reasonably good. In front is the red 'Nova Zembla'. It has a reputation of being not hardy enough in Finland…
2004_b Year 2004. The azaleas along the causeway were a colorful sight. I took the picture above from the rock where a fallen Picea abies grows as ground cover without...
Year 2004. The azaleas along the causeway were a colorful sight. I took the picture above from the rock where a fallen Picea abies grows as ground cover without…