It may not look as though we are making much progress – still builders very much in evidence – but I promise you that we are… The paving is now all laid around the house (still working on the area in front of the garage) and I have even managed to plant some wheelie bin …
Kenwood House
Rhodies, handkerchiefs and candelabra
A quick paean to the glories of Kenwood in May – the rhodedendrons and azaleas and the handkerchief tree. The big lawn to the west of Kenwood House is entirely surrounded by mature camellias, magnolias, rhodedendrons and azaleas – so in April and May it is a delight to behold. Apart from the surrounding trees …
Events at Kenwood
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 …
Managing the Tormented Heath
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. …
Weeding the Heath
It is spring – and although there has been very little rain, that has not stopped the weeds galloping across the heath. Just flicking through my images from the last half dozen gardening sessions I realise that we have done very little apart from weed. Here is Keiran in the Golders Hill Park walled garden …
Postponed………
For the last ten days tents have been popping up all over the Kenwood Lawns, blue pipes snaking their way along every path and teams of high viz jacketed workers swarming all over the park – in preparation for last weekened’s Heritage Live concert – 10,000 expected….. Rag N Bone Man, Boy George and the …