Botanical challenge
Creating your own wunderbar botanic garden is more of a challenge than just filling some windowboxes. So start small. Begin with easy plants or plants from neighbouring countries with a roughly similar climate. Grow alongside your plants and expand your garden slowly.
The choice of plants that will fit into your new botanical paradise depends on the soil. And do you have full sunlight or a lot of shade? Seek out the plants that fit perfectly with your garden. A stubborn plant will not adapt to the conditions in your garden. Even trying to bribe the plant with fancy bottled water won’t help.
Of course all that growing and blooming needs to be done in style. Now that gardening is the latest hip trend, you can find loads of great products for it. The botany-inspired shop Hallesches Hause offers a stunning selection of gardening accessories!
Getting recognised
Soon you’ll have a sizeable collection of unusual plants, and you may not be able to see the wood for the trees any more. But as a committed aspiring botanist you have a solution for that: labels! Just like they use in schöne Berlin. Every plant there has a label bearing a number, the place in the world from which the plant originates, and the name the person who found or collected it. Obviously you can write your own name on every label: it’s your botanic garden, and everyone should know that!
Time for your plants, time for yourself
You will need to do a lot of work before you have the makings of a green oasis, but it’s definitely worth it. Particularly since all that hard work will certainly earn you the right to relax and enjoy your plant garden. With enough effort, you can create a botanical tour de force featuring the most unusual plant species. You may even be able to charge admission in due course.
