It took her 16 years to turn her place into a Chinese version of Monet Garden.

Monet Garden, the former home of the famous French painter Monet, has two parts: the water court and the garden, also known as the Normandy Garden, which attracts a lot of people. But it took her 16 years to turn her place into China's Monet Garden.

She is Zhang Xiaoping. After retiring, she bought a villa of more than 400 square meters and designed the garden herself. Every plant and every tree has her sweat. It took 16 years from planting to growing up now.

From a distance, the house is surrounded by all kinds of plants, whether tall trees or low flowers, all around the house.

Viewed from above, it is like building a house in nature, surrounded by green plants, full of green, showing the vitality of nature.

Zhang Xiaoping dreams of having her own garden, so everything in the garden is her work. Now she has not only realized it, but also turned the garden into the Monet Garden of China.

She made the house herself, from decoration to design. Some of the small decorations in the garden were also made by herself, such as this bird, which was actually a painting by her husband Yang Zhongguang, and she made it herself.

The flower chair in the picture below is her masterpiece of three years.

Originally, it was because the chair was broken, but because of its unique shape, I was reluctant to throw it away, so I planted water lilies. It took three years to give it traction every day to create such a beautiful landscape.

She also completed the pruning of flowers and plants by herself. even when she caught a cold, she still did not forget to work, and it was precisely because her work would sweat, she never went to the hospital when she caught a cold.

Flowers can be seen in the yard all the year round, or almost every day. At its peak, there were more than 800 kinds of flowers, and now there are six or seven hundred. Even Zhang Xiaoping's mother, who studied gardening, could not help saying that she had never seen so many kinds of flowers before.

Every flower is taken good care of by her. Usually, Zhang Xiaoping would invite some flower friends to have tea, discuss flowers, and put some seasonal flowers on the table.

And here, even in winter, you will see flowers blooming, and even the lawn is green. Zhang Xiaoping said that the garden must have been planted by itself, because it is not like an outdoor public green space and can be laid out.

However, Zhang Xiaoping usually has a barbecue here. She feels that the garden is not a decoration, but a place where she enjoys and works, and garden life has become her main life.

One room, two people, three meals and four seasons have been perfectly interpreted by Zhang Xiaoping. In fact, no matter what life is like, we should still have an attitude and try our best to live a quality life.

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