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We left the garden in Hampstead Lane in the early summer of this year at the point when the builders had finally withdrawn themselves and their equipment – and I had planted out the ferns outside my bedroom window.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
The autumn of 2021 started well in the garden. My first thoughtless purchase of trellis to separate us from the garden at number 31 was replaced by proper fencing that I painted charcoal grey to match the back wall. Defying the builder’s predictions of destruction, I then splurged on three jasmine officianalis (two white and …
The garden at Hampstead Lane – stage 3 – autumn 2021 to summer 2022Read More
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
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 …
Most readers of this blog will have met Boris (the ginger one) and Arwen. Possibly even in person at Lawn Road or during one of our summer concerts here in the garden in Highgate. Despite the fact that all of their lives had been spent at Lawn Road, they were both very tolerant of the …
I hadn’t actually appreciated, when pulling metres of clinging tendrils out with the over grown ivy earlier in the year, that what I was pulling out was Virginia creeper – which would burst into a brief blaze of crimson glory come the dark days of October – as indeed it has. Fortunately, it is incredibly …
