Fantasy & Horror Author
The Gardens
Elders of the Ground
This was the story that kicked off this collection. The garden is my own and the story inspired by my very real fight with getting rid of ground elder from our ditch. I really don't like ground elder. It's boring and it spreads like a decease! So I spent hours and days digging up the entire root system. I think I tossed close to 100kg of plant material!
Instead, I've planted wild flowers <3
Dirt You Shall Become
Dirt You Shall Become is a mix of two gardens: my grandma and pa's (on Mom's side) and the garden where my best friend lived when we were in first grade.
The compost and yew was in grandma's garden. There was a narrow, but short, path to the mulch and I didn't like to be behind there. The rest of the garden was always full of flowers and they had a big veggie garden where we picked peas and beetroots. They had green house with cucumbers and we'd go to a farm every summer and pick loads of strawberries!
My friend's garden was HUGE and at the very back it was a wilderness of old trees, ivy, and ground elder. It was creepy as hell back there!
Murder, She Grew
This one is my partner's grandparents' garden. At their country house they had the most amazing garden just overflowing with flowers and roses. There was probably around 200 different rose bushes throughout the grounds. It was epic and so unbelievable beautiful!
Gnome, Sweet Gnome
The garden in Gnome, Sweet Gnome is inspired by my grandparents on Dad's side. Their garden was not nearly as neat as the one in the story, but I remember the lawn being very short and neat possibly because they liked to play "Krolf" (golf on the lawn with big clubs and wooden balls). They also had a fish pond with gold fish and grandma just had strange porcelain figurines all over the house. You weren't allowed to be in the living room (only when "real" guests came around or it was a holiday) and this strictness inspired a bit of the "don't touch the grass" in this short story.