Gardening Bali-Style

Once in a while, I would walk into our garden at home on Mercer Island and think that my parents must be amazing garden visionaries to dream up this whole thing. Banana plants towering high above the pathway; a statue of Buddha shaded by bamboo chutes; and a dragon overlooking it all.  We have a pretty awesome garden.

We do have a pretty awesome garden at home, I’ll admit, but it’s not all that unique once you take a plane on over to Bali and examine the first garden you encounter. And it just so happens that my mom and dad had both been to Bali several times before they started to plan out our garden on Mercer Island.  So I guess my parents loved the island of Bali and its gardens so much, they wanted to be reminded of them every time they walked outside.

Now, it’s not like you can make a trip over to Home Depot and buy a couple of Buddhas and some wooden dragons in the USA, so when my mom and dad visit Bali, they are ready to get into action and start collecting more stuff.  This is particularly scary considering you can go 10 minutes out of Ubud, where we are staying, and find every type of stone and wood carving known to mankind.  If you’ve ever visited our house you’ll definitely know what I’m talking about when I say we might be the biggest buyers in the stone carving village.  I don’t think my mom or dad would buy any wood or stone carving that wasn’t crafted at least a couple thousand miles away from our house.  Now, I know you’re thinking, and yes, we’ve bought a few more stone carvings already on this trip 🙂

But when my mom and dad were planning out our garden in Mercer Island originally, they weren’t planning on buying a couple of carvings and calling it quits, oh no, they also needed Balinese-type plants. They did their research and found every plant that could possibly be grown in Seattle’s climate that was grown in a Bali garden. They were committed; they even bought a palm tree to go in our front yard.  And not to mention the fact that they build shelters around each and every banana plant for every winter.

Okay, we’re going a little overboard here….houses for banana plants? I used to think they were completely insane, but now I understand why my parents ship all the Buddhas home; I understand why they build shelters for our banana plants. It’s simply because Bali has it down!  And it is not surprising when you learn that Bali has more artists per capita than anywhere else in the world.  This means amazing art and design everywhere you look…even the garden.

I have actually tried to join the art craze and taken a wood carving class and I must say, that now, I really appreciate those wood carvers because they are super talented! (I sucked….but that is a different blog post 🙂  )

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