The work I am presenting here is the excerpt from the ongoing project "In the Giardino, down, between" that talks about my neighbourhood garden between the builidings built in late 60's as a part of then well-thought urban planning of the city, but also puts it in the perspective with historical gardens of Dubrovnik and south Adriatic. This part of the project focuses on variations of the green shades through history of this gardens. What are the historical causes and, from that, what are the visual and performative outputs of them: how did those imported (forms) and shades became "our own" and "common"? This question can be eaqually visual, botanical, but also political: green shades were provided through various historical epoches. Here I am puting in comparison two spatially overlapped, but historically very different ones: Dubrovnik rennesance garden and socialist urban gardens. Research was made through acts of observance, performative walks and media of photography and video.