A very quick post just to celebrate the glorious golden leaf carpet in the Old Orchard Garden last week. Those large crunkly leaves – lined golden hands with their fingers spread – are from the Oriental Plane – or so my ‘Picture This’ app told me. They looked amazing and I am glad I snapped …
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Scything the wild flowers on the Boating Pond island
After the major countrywide floods of the early and mid Noughties the Corporation of London and the surrounding boroughs got very worried that the streams that run down through the Hampstead ponds might get out of hand and flood the good people of Gospel Oak and Kentish Town. So massive flood protection works were put …
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Heath Hands happenings
I realise that it is a long time since I logged any of our Heath Hands activities – but that certainly does not mean that we have been slacking. Indeed, I have just returned from the Hill Garden where the pieris to the east of the pond was in full and glorious flower. I was …
Diggin’ an’ loggin’ an’ ditchin’…..
Yep – it’s the digging and ditching season. A great workout for us Heath Hands-ers before spring and the weeds really get going and we are back down on our hands and knees doing battle with the chickweed, the bindweed, the ground elder, the enchanter’s nightshade and the creeping buttercups. So, job number 1 – …
‘Our’ tree – part of the Queen’s Green Canopy….
Planted out with our own fair hands. It may not look much now but it is part of a 70th Jubilee project, the Queen’s Green Canopy, to plant a million trees across Britain in the queen’s name during the jubilee year. Since tree planting cannot happen during summer months, the project has extended its deadline …
Yet more trees – but this time Veteran trees
Do you know the difference between an ancient tree and a veteran tree? No, nor did I until enlightened by Heath Hands Jo on a veteran tree walk around the heath last Friday. Sadly, because we had a Salon Music concert that evening, I had to peel off before we were even half way through …