Gardens in Havana (1)

Hello, Hive Garden friends. I want to tell you about gardens in Havana. I still carry the trauma from so many sad years without well-kept courtyards and colorful flowerbeds. Because one gets used to even the bad things. Now, I’m pleasantly surprised whenever I see initiatives like this one.

Cactus cultivation was always an uncommon specialty in this city, but it had fervent followers. I myself had some in the 90s and early 2000s, in small pots. I even met people because of it. As if we were members of the same secret brotherhood—if you saw a well-kept cactus in someone’s home, you knew they’d welcome you without hesitation as soon as you mentioned that you collected cacti too. And it was a generous fellowship. You’d easily walk away from an encounter with some plants and plenty of free advice. That’s how I made friends.

This almost-public garden in a Miramar mansion catches my eye because of its little pots. A while ago, a neighbor told me where they were made, and at the time they were very original: simple pieces of stone joined with cement. Expensive.

Now, they have a gardener who seems very skilled, yet he’s filled a section of the flowerbed with stones. He apparently ignores the damage this causes to the soil and plants by hindering rainwater drainage and the proliferation of insect and annelid fauna inhabiting these spaces.

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English translation with Deepseek