(If you want to see the video you will need to click onto the blog as the email notification does not include the video.) Yes, real, live rain – can you hear it? Well, to be honest, we didn’t get that much rain – nowhere near as much as our parched gardens need, but still …
Trees from Hamsptead Lane
Today is Sunday so, since we are still in lock down I am trying not to go to the heath. But as I was having breakfast this morning I looked out of my study window and realised that, whatever about the heath, we have some pretty darn fine trees up here in Highgate. Well, to …
Hampstead Heath Trees….
The heath is home to the most amazing selection of trees. You have already seen a number of them on this blog and I am sure will see many more. although, I am ashamed to say, that I do not know what most of them are…. This beauty, with a crow perched on its topmost …
Beautiful – but dangerous…
Yes, those horse chestnuts are beautiful but – for those who suffer from pollen allergies, as Jacquie pointed out in a comment, they are lethal…. Normally it is male plants that are particularly dangerous for pollen sufferers. But horse chestnuts have perfect flowers, which mean that they are both male and female – so are …
Blossom explosion
I am quite sure that, when I walked down to the heath yesterday, this chestnut tree was not in flower – and now look at it!! I swear that they have all come out within the last 24 hours… And look how stunning they are….. And just down the bottom of that meadow, the blackthorn …
The Ladies’ Pool
(If you want to see the video you will need to click onto the blog as the email notification does not include the video.) The Ladies’ Pool (or, to give it its correct title, Kenwood Ladies’ Pool) is, sadly, closed because of COVID-19, but….. that gives us an opportunity that we would not otherwise have. …