After four years of dedicated work – majorly delayed by the Covid crisis – the much loved Camley Street nature park in the heart of King’s Cross is to reopen on October 13th. 10 – 4pm, Wednesdays to Sundays. To quote from their new website: Camley Park is a unique urban nature reserve, surrounded by …
Gardens
Welcome to a plantswoman’s garden in Faversham
As you walk up the street towards Sarah Langton-Lockton’s house in Faversham your eye is caught by a blood red cloud of dahlias and rose blossoms clustered around the gate to her house – a foretaste of the plantsman’s feast that will greet you in her garden. (For those who want to know, the rose …
A little slow watching
The skies are grey again here in London but on Wednesday the sun was shining on the upper reaches of the River Avon where an old stone bridge crosses it on the outskirts of Amesbury. And I was not the only one enjoying it. And for those of you who would like a little more …
Hollyhocks in Haggerston, the Grand Union – and swimming dogs
I do love hollyhocks and have just designated the perfect spot in my new garden at Hampstead Lane – if I can persuade them to grow. (A post on the garden coming very soon.) These were in Haggerston Park, where I found myself yesterday afternoon after a slightly unlikley Sunday afternoon walking tour around Hackney …
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Roses, roses – and more roses….
I spent last weekend at Snape Maltings enjoying some excellent music at the concert hall – and getting marooned in mid marshes when the motor of the boat from which we were viewing the bird life died unceremoniously. However, to get to the boat we had needed to walk through the village of Orford, once …
Daisies, swans, bees and a Paulownia tree
Yesterday I headed off across the heath to catch the Overground to Kew Gardens, meeting on my way… First this splendid random patch of daisies growing at the bottom of the meadow running down to Millfield Lane. How did they get there? Who knows….. And then, down on Hampstead Pond 2, the swan family. Our …