Enjoy the view
In due course the autumn of Year 1 arrived, the Virginia creeper turned crimson and COVID restrictions banished all social events to the garden – requiring the acquisition of a firepit. Logs from the local hardware shop were supplemented with some of the ‘trunks’ of ivy that I had cut down which, somewhat startlingly, went …
The garden at Hampstead Lane – autumn 2020 to summer 2021Read More
Actually, it was introduced to us as the Tormented Slope but Tormented Heath has so much more of a ring to it. In fact, charred slope might have been closer, as burnt to a crisp it certainly was. However, the ‘tormented’ had nothing to do with its scorching and everything to do with the tormentil. …
I have been promising for some time to bring those of you interested in gardening up to date with the garden at Hampstead Lane. So for those who love to watch a garden being created, posts over the next few weeks (or possibly months) will take you through its evolution from spring 2020 till now …
Among many other matter of interest in this month’s Heath Hands newsletter was a link to a fascinating City of London project that I really thought more people should know about – their Historic Postcard Project. Their site does not, sadly, explain exactly how the project came about but it does thank historian Michael Hammerson, …
This was the pond in the Hill Garden when we Heath Hands volunteers arrived for our session yesterday morning – a rather unattractive murky mass of algae and pond weed choking the wildlife in the pond and the plants. So it was more weeding for us – but this time pond weeding, a lot more …
Thanks to my good friends from the Korros Ensemble I was invited to Chelsea Flower show this year courtesy of Lady Frances and Sir Jack Petchey (the sculptor Frances Segelmen and her husband) who were hosting a reception in Andy Sturgeons’ Gold award winning ‘Mind ‘Garden. Korros were there to entertain the guests – and …
