Thinking about kept and unkept spaces made me remember this photo I took in Ulaanbaatar. There was definitely some form of care taken in the planting of the flowers but garden maintenance as we know it does not exist in Mongolia. With spring and summer taking up such a short space of the year, once the plants begin to grow they are just left until autumn, when the incoming cold will kill them off. Grass is rarely mown, often getting to waist height or higher, weeds left to run rampant: if it is green and it grows then it shouldn't be messed with.
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