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We left the garden in Hampstead Lane in the early summer of this year at the point when the builders had finally withdrawn themselves and their equipment – and I had planted out the ferns outside my bedroom window. Out beyond the steps, massive bags of soil had arrived and had been spread round the …
The garden at Hampstead Lane – stage 4 – summer 2022Read More
My path down to the heath yesterday – the men’s pond looking very bleak and uninviting, snow on some of the willows which, bizarrely, have still not lost their leaves – and a stream hiding beneath the snowy branches. Closer to home, my garden – pond frozen over, Tawny Pipit and the patio furniture all …
Forty one years………. How can that even be possible…… Like, I am sure, all of you my daily in box is filled with urgent calls, appeals and newsletters from amazing organisations doing extraordinary work to alleviate the suffering that our cruel and belligerent world inflicts on so many innocent families. While I try to give …
A rather grey day last week saw the full complement of gardeners in thigh high waders gathered around the Hill Garden pond to attack the sedge and the water mint. As with so much else during the pandemic, both had taken advantage of the reduced gardening input to go forth and multiply – to the …
Last week English Heritage held a public meeting in the Olde Kitchen at Kenwood to review the events held on the estate over the summer, to give details of the Christmas lights event and to flag up plans for 2023. All interested groups (Friends of Kenwood, Highgate Society, Heath and Hampstead Society) were there along …
Wednesday morning saw a group of ten keen Heath Handers wielding scythes and mattocks alongside the ‘ride’ which runs across Sandy Heath from the Spaniards to North End. The ‘ride’ would have been much more open 50-100 years ago – much more ‘heath-y’ with bare ground, gorse and grassland. However, the wide scale sand digging …
