On the slope of Mount Pindo stands A casa das silvas, the oldest house in the Galician town of Panchés, the roof of which collapsed close to forty years ago. With the passage of time, a piece of mountain pierced through the walls, making it a home for plants. With an area of 60.6 squqre meters, the experimental work called the Garden of Panchés, which took 36 months to complete, began with a clearing-up of the site to expose elements like an oven and a stone bench, but leaving intact the ferns, mosses, and wild rose bushes that had thrived there for years. The rest was cured with new topsoil

Then the nettles and the big fallen punt beam had to dealt with. The ton of eucalyptus wood, immersed in the Noia estuary for over twenty years, is now part of a landscaped space where there is room for weeds and wild plants. Inserted later, yellow like the mountain flowers, were the staircase-viewpoint and the swing formed by a sling and a stone seat.

In this process of renaturation, elements have appeared in the new ‘wild’ garden with the collaboration of residents in the vicinity, such as Jorge and Ana, Ana Isabel Calo (owner of the Casa das Camelias in Boiro), Miguel Llana (the passionate banker), Rafael Ovalle ‘Falo’ (a reputed Asturian landscaper), and Rocío Priegue (owner of the plant nursery of Cee). “Time has taken care of bringing all back to the start. Everything is as it was in the beginning, but different,” says Arturo Franco.