A garden to live in

Irmgard Doll is 76 years young and lets nothing come of her “magic garden”. It is a little natural and not cut with nail scissors like maybe elsewhere. But since the 1960s it has been a garden to live in and gives the four children who are now adults, along with grandchildren, dogs, a number of tits and also a little weasel, a living space in which time and any worries can be forgotten.

Courage to choose the OÖN garden again

Last year, the Innviertlerin from Aham in the municipality of St. Peter am Hart in the Braunau district took part in the OÖN garden election. “I can keep up with that,” says garden lover Doll confidently.

This year she has fought her way back into the top group and ranks around the top dozen of the online ratings. Husband Adolf Doll (86) is more mentally at her side in the garden. Because Irmi has a firm grip on the work there. Your Adi has, keyword natural, even no mowing. Irmi cares so much about the blooming meadow.

The center of the garden is the arbor overgrown with Wisteria. Next to it, under two more than 50-year-old birch trees, a lovingly designed brook gurgles, which merges into a seat by a pond. Sometimes he changes his dress. Once he was lightning blue Greek; currently he looks very british. Next to it spreads the natural sewage treatment plant hidden under roses, grasses and shields.

Along the fence there are bushes ranging from currant to raspberry to blackberry. Apple trees, from Gravensteiner to Reinette and even grafted by Irmgard Doll himself, should not be missing throughout the garden.

But the real magic of the magic garden is what Irmgard Doll calls its “corners”. There is one with an amphora, a herbal corner where sometimes the stuffed cats that she tailors and sells at arts and crafts markets sit to the delight of the grandchildren, one with a painted armchair, one with a mosaic ball and, and…

Husband Adi contributes homemade tit boxes. Of course, vegetables are also grown, including sweet potatoes, yacon and onions, which hang as a braid on the “farm building” aka wooden hut. Of course, something always has to bloom. This also so that Irmgard Doll can fill her vases in the house. Because the garden is brought into the living area of ​​the single-family house in the middle of the landscape. When the grown-up children come to visit, they only have one thing in mind. Put a long table on the meadow and chat until the sun setting over the Inn spreads even more magic.