I have, for months, been promising those of you who used to follow the trials and tribulations of my garden at Lawn Road to update you on the new garden at Hampstead Lane – so here goes. Although to call it a garden at this stage is definitely taking liberties with the term! To set …
Michelle's garden
Boris, Arwen and the cat shute
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 …
Autumn in Highgate Lane
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 …
Hampstead Lane update
An April and May with lots of sun and no rain – and a June with lots of rain and no sun – has meant that my lawn has scarcely grown at all. Mind you, to call it a lawn somewhat flatters it as a smooth green sward it definitely is not. However, I did …
Timber!!
As promised, I am afraid that I am now going to bore you rigid with a detailed account of the tree works that took place in the garden yesterday. They do not really look that dramatic but – they do mark the start of the works on Hampstead Lane, which is quite exciting as far …
Random
Sun and lowering clouds over the garden in Hampstead Lane this afternoon. I did nip out between the downpours – one of hailstones as big as marbles! – but only got to the borders of Kenwood. Here is the house, bleached in a brief moment of sun seen through the spreading trees. On the way …