My next door neighbor isn’t much of a gardener. His garden is now so overgrown that the two greenhouses and one car that were once visible are now completely covered in greenery as nature has taken back the land.

My back garden is not the biggest garden by any stretch of the imagination. In fact one has to stretch ones imagination to even call the two grassy areas separated by a short path a garden in the first place. But it’s a nice little south east facing sun trap which I often sit out while I have breakfast or a cup of tea on a warm day. Heck we’ve even had barBQ’s and firework displays in this little garden!

At my back gate looking toward my humble abode the short little path feeds you directly to my back door. My neighbors garden on the right in the picture above has been growing out of control since the day I moved in. When I first moved here in 1999 the garden was untidy due to the recent death of my neighbors father. Apparently before his death the garden was well kept with flower-beds, a small lawn, and two greenhouses. full of all kinds of potted plants.

In 2003, one afternoon I decided to create a web page showing how nature had “reclaimed it’s territory.” Today as I sat outside having a bite to eat I marveled as to how this once pretty little English garden had reverted to an uncontrolled wild kingdom that would present a daunting task to even the bravest gardner.

I’m not really bothered at all by the wilderness next door. I’m quite sure that nature is having a ball under the thick green blanket of leaves and thorns. The only problem presenting itself now is that the bush that separates chaos from order is now dying away. I would imagine perhaps the reason for this is because there isn’t enough ground water for the bush, or maybe the roots of the thorn bushes, weeds, and everything else that is out of control, have strangled those of the dividing bush.

I’m not sure how much longer I’ll live here, but I thought I would take a few more pictures to document natures progress. Since the first time I photographed the garden there have been two attempts made to bring it under control. One was by my landlady’s grandfather, and the other was made my an anonymous man. Both attempts failed.

Looking at the garden really makes me wonder how quickly nature would just retake control if we were all gone tomorrow.

The same garden three years ago