Stuart

Stuart is our nice neighbour. He has got a green thumb. He lives in a small flat nearby. His flat should be a suite or at most a one double bedroom. He has got a small front garden. The garden is filled with a number of various plants, full of colourful flowers.

Since around a year ago, he started to decorate all around his flat, including his neighbours’ front gardens and the communal area, with his beautiful flowers. Then he developed this decoration on the walls, in front of windows, and on the roofs; wherever it could be a showing place.

A month ago my wife and I thought it was worth it to get some advice from him. Actually we do not have a front garden. We have a medium size balcony, where we have got several troughs of flowers. Two years ago, when we moved to this flat, we had several pelargoniums. In fact, the previous residents left them for us. They were beautiful, flourishing in three colours: white, pink, and red.

This year we felt pelargoniums were getting a bit oldand my wife was keen to replace them with something different. She wanted herbs and varied flowers. Stuart was the best one to get advice from and we went to him. He asked us to give him some time to study more. After a few days he came up with the idea of six different species of thymes in two bigger troughs, three in each. My wife smiled and accepted. He bought them for us and made the new troughs with thymes. After a while my wife saw his mints in front of his flat and asked him about them. It was then that we learnt there are so many types of mints. He offered us one of his mint flowerpots. A few days later, he came up with the idea of fuchsia and petunia flowers. Now we have got a big trough of three varied types of fuchsia, and a smaller trough of petunia. Then my wife had a chat with him about chives and he grew a bunch of chives for us. We have kept a trough of red pelargonium from the past as well.

Now our balcony has various types of colourful flowers and herbs exactly as my wife had desired. They are lovely and look great. The petunias scent every evening. All the flowers are quite joyful and, above that, we are happy for the experience. The flowers have connected us more closely to Stuart and we have learnt more about these plants.