• autumn,  My Garden,  woodland

    The Heights I Want to Reach

    When my grandmother was my age or perhaps even younger, she doesn’t remember exactly, she planted a larch. I think it’s a Japanese one, Larix kaempferii, but I’m not one hundred percent sure. I’d say it’s something between 12-15 meters high today. Both my grandmother and my grandfather, when he was alive, were quite interested in gardening and I think my mother and I have respectively taken it even further. Not that far from my grandmother’s larch I have planted a Metasequoia glyptostroboides. It’s fairly exotic for Finland, but so far it has survived. It’s almost 3 meters high. I thought I had bought it from a garden center, but…