I thought I should show you the rest of the garden since some of you were interested. The first picture is sometime in March when I power raked the lawn to remove all the moss (and most of the grass along with it.) Our whole garden is in the shade from late fall to spring, so that’s why so much moss. The last photo was taken this morning. We would like to have more flowers but the dreaded Iberian slugs have invaded Norway through plants imported from Holland and they can multiply into many hundreds in a single garden where their favorite flowers grow. We have managed to keep them pretty much away by planting flowers and shrubs they don’t much like. The lawn hasn’t quite recovered yet as it has been an unusually cold spring this year. I am expecting a lot of rain this summer. Good for me, bad for my wife.

Mike, an American living in Norway