If you now go around the Vesaisentie garden, which last year was one long green lawn, one seems a transformation with the hand of a creator.
Annikki is meticulous in whatever she does. She works till two or three in the morning to get things exactly right.
When I walk around the garden I notice nothing initially. Then, as I take out my camera, I start to notice the incredible amount of detailed thought she has put into every nook and corner of the garden
I am no professional photographer. If one were to go around the garden, what I have depicted below ametueurishly, would been given a new meaning.
Step out of the front door in Vesaisentie and you are greeted by this garden. Small and cosy, but it is still a work in progress.
Everything is dismantleable - the little pond can be stripped down in 5 minutes. It is just a large bucket which cost Euro 10 surrounded by loose bricks!
Look down the side wall towards the back garden and you see this sight of flowers along the wall. Not yet complete, every day sees much dramatic changes.
The first flowers are appearing at Kampitie - and soon the garden which Annikki has tended so lovingly will be a riot of colour again - midsummer roses, and a whole lot of other plants will start flowering. The neighbours apple trees will also soon blossom!
More from these two gardens as the summer brightens our lives.
Oh! Not for me!!
Annikki has started in real earnest to set out the Vesaisentie garden with her vision.
First was the cleaning of the back fence area from years of accumulated rotting leaves and branches.
Then came the building of the Great Wall of Vesaisentie - a work in progress.
Yesterday evening we went to a shop looking for some garden stuff and came away with a large black plastic container.
Today it was in the garden with a circular brick wall around it. The first pond experiment of Vesaisentie.
But one pond is insufficient, so today we went to buy another pond. No doubt the ponds will find their right places tomorrow, in and above the ground.
Lots of minor works are in progress - as Annikki tries this and that. She is looking to create a garden with her stamp of design skills - and let me assure you that it will some unusual character about it.
But today was also buying day for trees. We will have two new trees, the first of many that will find their way into the Vesaisentie garden during this and subsequent years!
We are now half way through October, but yesterday we saw the footsteps of winter fast approaching. 
The ponds are freezing over during the night. 
The bridge has frost all over it.
A gardener's work in such circumstances is never over. Annikki has slowly but surely been getting ready for winter, moving plants to their ideal locations and putting the summer stuff away while slowly bringing out all the stuff required for winter.
On Tuesday, she was going into a state of panic as temperatures below zero were being forecast. She was worried about our 14 goldfish in the outside pond.
On Wednesday, she made a concerted effort to catch the fish to bring them in to the indoor aquariums. She netted 12 out of the 13, the last one diving deep into the water to avoid capture.
The next morning the pond was frozen over. She had to break the ice, and a relieved goldfish was happy to be netted and taken in to the comfort of the warm water in the aquarium!
A lot more work to be done to ensure we are safe and secure through winter while continuing to enjoy the creations Annikki makes during the course of winter to warm our cockles!
Day-before-yesterday, Wednesday evening, Annikki's mother, Hilja, went in for her interval care at the Hirosen Old People's Home, so that Annikki and me could re-energise ourselves.
It was quite a wet day, so Hilja had to be dressed with warmish clothes. It was after five in the evening before the Invalid Taxi arrived to take Hilja and Annikki to the Old People's Home.
I followed by car. As soon as Hilja was comfortably installed, Annikki wanted to go straight to the garden shops to pick up things for the garden. The Flea markets had already closed as it was past 6 pm. :-)
Besides picking up rich soil bags and some evergreen trees for potting, she picked up some wooden lotuses for the pond. 
She also picked up two artificial lotuses which have LEDs in the centre. They run on three small batteries. the LEDS are rated as having lives of 8000 to 10000 hours.
When switched on the colour of the LED changes continuously, rotating through a beautiful soft glow blue, to green, to red and to yellow.
I tried to photograph them but was not successful. They look gorgeous. (I must get a better digital camera!) Annikki put one in the main pond and one in the bathtub. They add so much character to the garden.
At the bottom of the pond the real lotus, which is a local variety, is growing very rapidly. We should soon see them flowering at the top of the water.
The solar fountain sent to us by Susanna a few years ago is still functioning beautifully. But I have to get a larger fountain as the goldfish love to have the water splashing aroung them.
On Thursday, which was a holiday here in Finland (Ascension Day - the day Christ ascended to heaven), Annikki, instead of resting was doing back-breaking work cleaning up every corner of the garden. She took all the rubbish out of the flower beds, sifted all the sand, and realigned all the stones. She had to take up each of her many hundreds of stones so as to get the rubbish out from under them.
I saw the first bee in the garden, hovering over the flower beds, although the first flowers are yet to arrive. The magpies are having their regular baths in the shallow pond, and after they finish the smaller birds take their turn.
We are still waiting for some warm days so as to re-introduce the goldfish back into the pond. Annikki is not going to take any risks again!
This year we will have lots more interesting stuff in the garden - so watch out on this blog as Annikki's new creative ideas come to fruition!
