Nosy Corner
I'm naughty. I peek into people's front gardens and back yards... sometimes I take pictures... sorry.
'Other people's gardens' are continually fascinating to me - probably because I've never had my own until now - so I go and visit gardens open to the public whenever I can.
Feel free to dip into here for inspiration.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
I adore the London Eye…I went on it when it was born and I think it’s one of London’s better things.
…Plants make it even BETTERER
This was Andy Sturgeon’s one-day pod-fantasy conceived for a project called Cityscapes.
…It is very, very very pretty, especially when the Thames is all a-glitter….
Plant list is simple:
Cydonia oblonga (definitely one for my lust list)
Cenolophium denudatum (was going to be angelica but the cold got the better of that idea)
Deschampsia caespitosa
Hesperis matronalis
The perfect spot for a picnic…
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
…She hasn’t space for bushes…so instead she wall-trains them.
…It takes a while….
These have been here for as long as I can remember – (the pink one was given to my mother at the birth of my older brother)….What I’m trying to say is that they’re older than ME.
I don’t remember them ever flowering so abundantly as this year.
…leaving a trail of luscious bounty….
Too many blooms to carry indoors, (like so many precious babies) and float in bowls
…So they get used to anoint topiary…’n stuff.
I’ll write a recipe for this one-pot-wonder once I’ve grilled my mother on her secrets.
a bientôt
x
Monday, April 16, 2012
Here’s the poppy garden that I posted on way back when…
All done up with honesty and erysimum…
The owners don’t go in for any fancy gardening….
They just SCATTER seeds, and do nothing else..
Very bad photos…sorry.
Monday, March 5, 2012
You make me wanna
…re-turf my entire garden and do this:
Narcissus ‘February Gold’ ….
Tens of faaaahhhzens of ‘em
Making you feel glad to be alive.
Thanks Kew - that was spectacular.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Somebody loves their dahlias….
I’ve been meaning to snap this garden for ages. Glad I waited till now though, because I think it’s at its best in October with dahlias a-go-go. It’s in an uber-posh street with big houses. I don’t know who lives there, but I love that they haven’t done the usual ‘tidy’ thing (see the next-door house, below).
I love October more and more every year. It was the first month I was ever properly aware of, being my birthday month, but it means so much more with the gardening bug in place. Hunk took me to the divine Dock Kitchen, whose menu reads like a poem about autumn. Pheasant biryani with rose petals and gold leaf… #thatisall
x
