Our Bird City

Garden crafts

Gardens are very important destinations on all our travels. Walking through these landscaped retreats of different styles brings us to a serene, tranquil mood full of admiration and relaxation during hectic travels – not to mention visionary landscapes that combine architecture, nature’s beauty and often unique art displays. From legendary Butchart Garden (The Butchart Gardens – Over 100 Years in Bloom – Victoria, Canada) to Four Arts Garden in Palm Beech (Four Arts Gardens – The Society of the Four Arts) to Sanssouci Park and Palace in Potsdam (Sanssouci Park in Potsdam | Garden art & Attractions (schloss-sanssouci.info), to Moorish gardens of Seville (Visitor’s Guide to the Royal Alcázar of Seville: A Dornish Garden of Eden (thegeographicalcure.com), to unmatched esthetics of Japanese gardens (Sankei-en in Yokohama – Sankei-en – The Traditional Japanese Garden in Yokohama (kanpai-japan.com), to mention just a few, we enjoy lushness and calmness of garden escapes.

Busy admiring these famous world gardens made for leisure and contemplation, I have neglected to truly notice secret beauties of my own garden – my very own landscape design made for minimal care and low maintenance.

In summers of 2020 and now 2021 – traveling the world was out of the question – our own garden became a center of attention. Marveling its seasonal transformations, wondrously, I realized it has hidden beauties and healing powers. A little planting, adding some garden art, observing its resident small creatures – and I created my own piece of tranquility.

In another unexpected turn of events last summer, my husband and I started working together on a summer project to build birdhouses, each one to mark a memorable city or country we visited on our past travels. Here is the collection of these little creations from a D&D workshop – our Bird City.